Latest shipping news – Page 135

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    Crowley sets up dedicated project cargo management division

    2011-09-20T00:00:00Z

    September 20 - A Project Solutions group that "bundles company-wide capabilities and assets with world-class project management skills to provide complete turnkey marine solutions" has been launched by Jacksonville, Florida-based shipping group Crowley Ma

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    NSCSA exercises options for two ro-cons

    2011-09-16T00:00:00Z

    September 16 - The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) has exercised the option to build two ro-con vessels with Hyundai MIPO of South Korea.

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    Jaguar Shipping purrs into Project Cargo Network

    2011-09-01T00:00:00Z

    September 1 - Jaguar Shipping Line has become the third and final Project Cargo Network (PCN) representative in Pakistan.

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    PCN recruits Noble Shipping as Pakistan member

    2011-08-02T00:00:00Z

    August 2 - The Project Cargo Network (PCN) has appointed its second member in Pakistan.

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    Freight industry brings illiteracy to book

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    August 1 - Global freight forwarder DHL and shipping line Safmarine have teamed up to boost literacy in Senegal. The two will create the first community library in Kolda, Senegal.

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    Imperial Reederei takes over BARIS

    2011-06-22T00:00:00Z

    June 22 - Effective July 1, 2011 Imperial Reederei GmbH will be the exclusive shareholder of BARIS Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH, with the company operating as Imperial BARIS GmbH from that date with its head office in Berlin and a branch office in Duisbur

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    Awards on both sides

    2011-06-17T00:00:00Z

    June 17 - Trans-United Inc, of Burns Harbor, Indianapolis, USA, is celebrating after being named a winner of the Indiana Fleet Safety Contest.

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    A Chinese epic takeaway the weather couldn't halt

    2011-06-17T00:00:00Z

    June 17 - A biomass boiler destined for green power generation in Italy presented Tuscor Lloyds with problems large in size as the company undertook an extremely difficult and complex multimodal shipment from Hunan province deep inside China through to Tr

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    Hansa Heavy Lift website sets sail

    2011-06-17T00:00:00Z

    June 17 - Just two weeks after the shipping line launched, Hansa Heavy Lift is taking to the digital wavelengths with the launch of a website.

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    Hansa Heavy Lift launches tomorrow

    2011-05-31T00:00:00Z

    May 31 - The newly formed, Bremen based maritime shipping company, Hansa Heavy Lift GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the international investment enterprise Oaktree Capital Management, which commences its business operations tomorrow, has revealed its f

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    Roll up, roll up as RollDock doubles up

    2011-05-26T00:00:00Z

    May 26 - The semi-submersible RollDock Sea has been delivered by her builders to Dutch heavy lift shipping company RollDock, doubling the Ijssel-based company's current fleet.

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    UK liner agency enters into administration

    2011-05-20T00:00:00Z

    May 20 - Long-established UK liner shipping agency Johnson Stevens Agencies has entered into administration with the administrators, accountancy firm PKF, already agreeing deals shipping industry entrepreneur, Andrew Thorne to acquire certain assets from

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    Flinter Aland named and launched

    2011-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Flinter Aland has been christened and launched at Shipyard Ferus Smit in Westerbroek.

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    Ethiopian Shipping Lines' vessels get MacGregor cranes

    2011-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Cargotec has confirmed a new order for 21 MacGregor variable frequency drive (VFD) electric cranes to be installed on seven 28,000 dwt multipurpose cargo ships being built at Huanghai Shipbuilding in China for Ethiopian Shipping Lines, with the c

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    Blue Water locates key new hire through HLPFI

    2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - If you want the best people (and who in Project Shipping can afford not to?) it pays to use the right media.

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    PCN names third member in Mexico

    2011-03-30T00:00:00Z

    March 30 - PCN has welcomed its third and final member in Mexico.

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    Samson picks up award for outstanding service

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    March 25 - Samson, a manufacturer of high-performance cordage, has been given the Professional Mariner's Samuel Plimsoll Award for outstanding service by an organisation for 2011.

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    Beluga gets visit from the police

    2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

    March 25 - An official spokesman for Beluga has confirmed that the German public prosecutor's office and police visited the company's Bremen HQ this week looking for evidence of possible fraud, but declined to comment on whether any evidence was either di

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    Stolberg fights back

    2011-03-21T00:00:00Z

    March 21 - For the first time since his 'leave of absence' was announced Beluga founder, Niels Stolberg, went onto the offensive late last week.

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    Second Beluga Group company files for insolvency

    2011-03-18T00:00:00Z

    March 18 - Following the announcement that its chartering division had filed for insolvency, the Beluga Group has confirmed that its shipping division, Beluga Shipping, which also includes ship management and ship owning, has followed suit.