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    Heavy lift and project cargoes help boost European gateways

    2012-01-04T00:00:00Z

    January 4 - Two key European heavy lift cargo gateways - Antwerp and Rotterdam - have reported positive results for overall activities in 2011.

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    Advance manifest system now in force in Turkey

    2012-01-04T00:00:00Z

    January 4 - Turkish Customs has instigated an Entry Summary Declarations (ENS) or advance manifest system for containerised inbound or transit cargo on vessels, effective January 1, 2012.

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    Dahlman Rose predicts 9.3 percent increase in global energy E&P

    2012-01-04T00:00:00Z

    January 4 - According to a report in the Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch, investment bank Dahlman Rose & Co is predicting that global energy companies are expected to continue spending more for exploration and production this year, despite sluggish econ

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    PPG starts year with new members

    2012-01-03T00:00:00Z

    January 3 - the Project Professionals Group (PPG) has begun 2012 by making new member appointments in Nigeria and Taiwan.

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    Happy New Year

    2012-01-03T00:00:00Z

    To all visitors to the HLPFI website, readers of the magazine, advertisers and contributors,

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    Jade Cargo puts temporary halt to operations

    2012-01-03T00:00:00Z

    January 3 - Jade Cargo International has announced the temporary suspension of services "due to overall weak air cargo demand".

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    Project Cargo Network doubles up in Iran

    2012-01-03T00:00:00Z

    January 3 - Saadat Sor'At International Transport has become the second official representative of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) in Iran, writes Charlotte Matheson.

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    Hartmann Asia Line adds fourth ship

    2012-01-03T00:00:00Z

    January 3 - H.S.A Chartering has added a fourth ship into the round-the-world (RTW) service operated by Hartmann Asia Line.

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    Successful tow for Fairmount Marine

    2011-12-31T00:00:00Z

    December 31 - Fairmount Marine's super tug, Fairmount Sherpa has successfully towed the jack-up drilling rig Baharia I to its new position in the Zeit Bay oil field in the Gulf of Suez.

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    Skelton Sherborne reports falling machinery shipments into Australia in November

    2011-12-31T00:00:00Z

    December 31 - In its latest monthly shipping index, Skelton Sherborne reports that machinery import volumes in November decreased by 15 percent to 3,418 units.

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    WWPC names Manica Logistics for Namibia

    2011-12-30T00:00:00Z

    December 30 - Manica Logistics, part of the Manica Group in Namibia, has been appointed as an exclusive member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) writes Charlotte Matheson.

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    Second time on the podium for Express Transport

    2011-12-30T00:00:00Z

    December 30 - Mumbai-based OOG and heavy lift project forwarder Express Transport (ETPL), a member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC), has added 10 additional equipment items, including two 250-tonne Kobelco crawler cranes.

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    Tuscor Lloyds cements concrete equipment shipment

    2011-12-30T00:00:00Z

    December 30 - Tuscor Lloyds was called in by the manufacturer of a mobile concrete batching plant (pictured below) after it struggled to find an appropriate vessel which could reach the destination within the limited timeframe.

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    Turkish Cargo offers freighter service to Libya

    2011-12-30T00:00:00Z

    December 30 - From January 8, 2012, Turkish Cargo is planning to launch scheduled freighter flights from Istanbul to the Libyan airport Mitiga, 8 km from Tripoli.

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    Tiong Woon in rights issue

    2011-12-29T00:00:00Z

    December 29 - Singapore-based Tiong Woon Corporation Holding (TWC), an integrated services specialist and provider of infrastructure businesses, supporting oil and gas, petrochemical, power and construction sectors through the planning and design of heavy

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    Grand Success for Steder Group

    2011-12-29T00:00:00Z

    December 29 - Steder Group FZE, Djibouti, a member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC), recently completed the transport of five large pieces of earthmoving equipment from Djibouti Port to the Grand Renaissance Dam project in western Ethiopia, writ

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    Fairstar wins contract for rig transport

    2011-12-29T00:00:00Z

    December 29 - Fairstar Heavy Transport has been awarded a USD2.6 million contract by Hercules Offshore to transport the jack-up drilling rig Hercules 185 from Pascagoula, Mississippi to West Africa in the first quarter of 2012 onboard Fairstar's open ster

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    Clipper Projects appoints commercial agent in South Korea

    2011-12-29T00:00:00Z

    December 29 - Clipper Projects has appointed JWJ Logistics Co Ltd as its commercial agent in South Korea, effective January 1, 2012.

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    Jumbo Shipping takes up second option with Brodosplit

    2011-12-28T00:00:00Z

    December 28 - Having announced in July this year that it had won a contract from Jumbo Shipping to build a heavy lift ship, Croatian shipbuilder Brodosplit has revealed that the shipping company has also taken up the option for one additional vessel with

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    Norwind Installer selects Ulstein as design partner for offshore vessel

    2011-12-23T00:00:00Z

    December 23 - Norwegian based NorWind Installer contracted the ULSTEIN Dutch design offices Ulstein Sea of Solutions and Ulstein IDEA Equipment Solutions as their design partners for a new foundation installation vessel for the offshore wind industry. The