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    Locomotive load for GPLN member

    2014-01-16T00:00:00Z

    January 16 - International Project Logistics, based in Brisbane, Australia, has handled the movement of 24 locomotives from Brisbane to Durban, South Africa for reuse on the African continent.

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    New appointments at Port Canaveral

    2014-01-16T00:00:00Z

    January 16 - Canaveral Port Authority has hired two veteran port executives - Alberto Cabrera and George Arocha - to help expand cargo business development and terminal operations at Port Canaveral.

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    Handling performance up at the port of Kiel

    2014-01-15T00:00:00Z

    January 15 - The port of Keil's cargo handling increased by 0.2 percent in 2013, compared with 2012, with its rail/ship intermodal handling business seeing an increase of 14.7 percent to 24,000 cargo units.

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    Tuscor Lloyds goes transatlantic

    2014-01-15T00:00:00Z

    January 15 - Tuscor Lloyds has transported a 17.3-tonne tracked scoop loader machine from the Rota military base in Cadiz, Spain to Alabama in the USA.

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    Double vessel delivery for TOS

    2014-01-15T00:00:00Z

    January 15 - TOS has begun the delivery of a German coaster vessel and Belgian inland pusher from the port of Waalhaven in Rotterdam, the Netherlands to South America.

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    NCHO receives cargo via Iran

    2014-01-15T00:00:00Z

    January 15 - NCHO Marine & Logistics, a subsidiary of Singapore headquartered Neptune Centuries Holding Pte Ltd, has announced that it is accepting cargo to all destinations within the CIS and Afghanistan via the port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.

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    STX gets a boost

    2014-01-15T00:00:00Z

    January 15 - STX Corp, the holding company of Korean conglomerate STX Group, has agreed to salvage the firm in the form of a USD660.3 million debt-to-equity swap, say reports from the South Korean media.

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    XLP scores hat trick

    2014-01-15T00:00:00Z

    January 15 - KG Shipping & Project Transportation Foreign Trade Ltd Co (KG Projects), QC Logistics Limited and Sacema Project Shipping have become the latest members to join the XLProjects (XLP) network.

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    ALE lifts topside

    2014-01-15T00:00:00Z

    January 15 - Heavy transportation and lifting provider, ALE, has used a uniquely designed gantry system to perform the lift and mating operation of a 10,000-tonne topside at Drydocks World for the semisubmersible HVDC platform DolWin Beta.

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    Sacyr details Panama cost overruns

    2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

    January 14 - Spanish construction company Sacyr, leader of the Panama Canal expansion project consortium, is in danger of losing USD574 million in guarantees and advance payments if a dispute regarding cost overruns is not resolved.

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    TTS wins university crane contract

    2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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    Governor announces funding at JAXPORT

    2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

    January 14 - Florida Governor, Rick Scott has visited Jacksonville Port Authority's (JAXPORT) Blount Island Marine Terminal to announce plans for a historic USD8.8 billion of funding for transportation improvements.

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    Stoltenberg joins Deutsche Bank

    2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

    January 14 - Klaus Stoltenberg is to join the Deutsche Bank as its new global head of shipping on April 15, 2014.

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    SDV acquires EDT

    2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

    January 14 - SDV, a subsidiary of the Bollor

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    Knaack-Krane buys Liebherr lift

    2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

    January 14 - Hamburg, Germany based crane rental firm Knaack-Krane has taken delivery of a new 750-tonne capacity Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 mobile crane.

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    GAC Australia signs contract with MOL

    2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

    January 14 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has awarded an exclusive three-year contract to GAC Australia, part of the GAC Group, to serve its vessels and port calls across Australia.

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    Left Coast Lifter en route to New York

    2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

    January 14 - One of the world's largest floating cranes, Left Coast Lifter, has begun its four-day voyage through the Panama Canal en route to New York, USA.

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    IRU publishes safe road transport paper

    2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

    January 14 - The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has published its International Guidelines in Safe Load Securing for Road Transport, in response to "the gap in global guidance for professionals involved in transporting loads by road", said IRU s

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    BIMCO identifies shipping's big challenges

    2014-01-13T00:00:00Z

    January 13 - According to global shipping association BIMCO, regulatory burdens concerning the environment, maritime security and the supply and demand imbalance with newbuilding orders reaching "worrying" levels, are some of the critical issues facing th

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    Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics receives draft cease and desist order

    2014-01-13T00:00:00Z

    January 13 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has received a draft cease and desist order and a draft surcharge order from the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) indicating that WWL, as one of several companies in the industry, has been involved in