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    ABS offers guide for offshore wind turbine installations

    2010-12-30T00:00:00Z

    December 30 - Classification society ABS has released a Guide for Building and Classing Offshore Wind Turbine Installations, which addresses design considerations for the bottom founded support structure of an offshore wind turbine situated in tropical st

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    IMO records 27 ship robberies in West African region

    2010-12-30T00:00:00Z

    December 30 - Local media reports based on International Maritime Organisation (IMO) information suggest that there were 27 incidents involving piracy and armed robbery against ships engaged in international shipping within the first to third quarters of

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    Sri Lankan freight company considers expansion

    2010-12-29T00:00:00Z

    December 29 - Sri Lankan freight forwarder FPS Lanka is considering setting up offices in the new southern port of Hambantota and in eastern Trincomalee harbour to handle an anticipated influx of cargo flows for post-war reconstruction.

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    China Navigation orders eight MPVs

    2010-12-29T00:00:00Z

    December 29 - The China Navigation Company Pte (CNCo), the deep sea shipping arm of the Swire group, has ordered eight multipurpose vessels each of 31,000 dwt and valued at a total of USD300 million, to be bulit at Zhejiang Ouhua Shipbuilding Co Ltd (Ouhu

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    Six scrubber shipment for FPS in Australia

    2010-12-29T00:00:00Z

    December 29 - Famous Pacific Shipping recently shipped six scrubber units via a ro-ro vessel from the USA to Australia, working with its US agent, Oakland-based Sea Shipping Lines (SSL) Lines

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    178 million tonnes for Antwerp but conventional cargoes still well down

    2010-12-29T00:00:00Z

    December 29 - Based on provisional figures, by the end of this year the port of Antwerp expects to have handled 178 million tonnes of freight, up 13 percent from the recession year of 2009 with the increase mainly due to container freight, which has once

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    Steder Group handles dredging equipment

    2010-12-28T00:00:00Z

    December 28 - Steder Group from The Netherlands, a member of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) and Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC), has successfully demobilised and returned dredging equipment from Trapani in Italy to Zeebrugge in Belgium.

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    Three up for ALE

    2010-12-28T00:00:00Z

    December 28 - ALE has completed a brace of jobs in the last few days.

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    TBS International reaches latest agreement with banks on continued payment deferral

    2010-12-28T00:00:00Z

    December 28 - Shipping company, TBS International, is ending a year in which it has made various announcements about its existing credit facilities, by announcing that its various lender groups have agreed to extend the current forbearance period until Ja

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    Note from the HLPFI Team

    2010-12-24T00:00:00Z

    December 24 - Greetings dear readers from a freezing cold south of England. It being so close to Christmas, we do not intend to tax readers with a great deal of professional reading today.

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    Allport merges with CS Logistics

    2010-12-24T00:00:00Z

    December 24 - Allport, one of the UK's largest freight forwarding and logistics companies, is merging with CS Logistics Holdings Limited, the parent company of Cargo Services Far East Limited, and based in Hong Kong and China.

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    Air Partner organises more humanitarian relief flights to Haiti

    2010-12-24T00:00:00Z

    December 24 - Air Partner is flying 100 tonnes of urgent medical supplies from Madrid-Barajas Airport to Port au Prince, Haiti, today on a Boeing 747 freight charter on behalf of a leading humanitarian aid agency.

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    GPLN welcomes Velogic Madagascar as its latest member

    2010-12-23T00:00:00Z

    December 23 - Velogic Madagascar is a french owned company which is part of a group specialising in logistics in the Indian Ocean. Operations are also in Mozambique and Mauritius.

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    The show will go on, thanks to Volga-Dnepr

    2010-12-23T00:00:00Z

    December 23 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines arranged two AN-124-100 freighter flights from Vatry, France to Dakar, Senegal, carrying theatrical stage and sound equipment for the Festival Mondial des Arts N

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    Intermax delivers welding machine

    2010-12-23T00:00:00Z

    December 23 - InterMax Logistics Solution (ITM), a Chinese member of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) network, recently accomplished the delicate transport of a high technology welding machine from the UK to Taishan in Guangdong Province.

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    Liebherr celebrates milestone delivery

    2010-12-23T00:00:00Z

    December 23 - Crane manufacturer Liebherr is celebrating the delivery of its 300th LTM 1500-8.1, described by the company as the most successful telescopic crane of its class, anywhere in the world.

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    Lerwick starts next development phase

    2010-12-22T00:00:00Z

    December 22 - In Scotland, Lerwick Port Authority's continuing development of its harbour is moving into the next phase following the award of a GBP4.6 million (USD7.12 million) contract to create a new berth and related improvements at Greenhead Base.

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    WWPC quartet teams up for Turkmen contract

    2010-12-22T00:00:00Z

    December 22 - CNC Freight Services of Malaysia as lead contractor, and DGT Logistics of Turkmenistan as the local contractor in country, has worked with two other members of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) on a logistics contract for a Malaysia co

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    Turners Shipping joins BDP Global Network

    2010-12-22T00:00:00Z

    December 22 - Turners Shipping (Pty) Ltd from South Africa has become a Premium Partner in the BDP Global Network - an alliance of small to mid-sized logistics companies.

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    Konecranes agrees refinancing package

    2010-12-22T00:00:00Z

    December 22 - Konecranes has signed a new EUR200 million (USD262 million) five-year Revolving Credit Facility with its core relationship banks.