All News articles – Page 1169

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    Tiong Woon completes its heaviest heavy haulage and load-out operation

    2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - Tiong Woon Corporation Holding Ltd (Tiong Woon) has completed its heaviest haulage and load-out operation to date.

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    Isakson, Chambliss Seek Funds for Savannah Harbor Expansion

    2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - US Senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss are seeking USD105 million in federal funds to continue the deepening of Savannah Harbour to help ensure that the port is able to accommodate larger cargo carriers.

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    NorSea Group buys Gottwald crane for Hanko Terminal

    2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - Gottwald Port Technology (Gottwald) has received an order from the Norwegian NorSea Group for a new mobile harbour crane.

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    Thyke Logistics is open for business

    2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - Thyke Logistics is a relatively new name in the Turkish freight business, but is already providing full logistics services to customers and partners.

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    NileDutch adds impromptu ro-ro call in South Africa

    2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

    April 6 - NileDutch has confirmed that the NileDutch Atlantic will make an impromptu port call at Durban on April 11.

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    The world's largest offshore wind farm uses Technotex slings

    2010-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - Technotex, a member of the Unitex group of companies, is supplying its Ultralift slings to the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm under construction 23km off the UK east coast.

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    Quantum leap for Chipolbrok

    2010-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - Quantum BSO & Tech, a company has delivered its Q-VUETM MPP Business Intelligence product to Chipolbrok, the Chinese-Polish multipurpose shipping company.

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    Antwerp names new port representative in Germany

    2010-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - Antwerp Port Authority has appointed a new representative in Germany, tasked with paying special attention to the North Rhine Westphalia region.

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    Madrid networks in South America

    2010-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - The Madrid Chamber of Commerce recently organised business networking opportunities for its members with counterparts in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and La Paz, Bolivia, Asuncion, Paraguay and Montevideo, Uruguay writes Oliver Ward.

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    Balnak on the double in North Africa

    2010-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - Balnak, one of Turkey's leading freight operators, is opening offices in Libya and Egypt, claiming to be the first Turkish logistics company to have offices in the former. The company also says it will open an office in Shanghai later this year.

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    Cargotec focuses on safety in cranes at BAUMA 2010

    2010-04-05T00:00:00Z

    April 5 - Cargotec, one of the world's leading providers of load handling equipment, is showing its range of products at Bauma 2010 to heavy lift and project cargo forwarder customers.

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    Volga-Dnepr Group out-performs industry average

    2010-04-02T00:00:00Z

    April 2 - Volga-Dnepr Group, parent of heavy airfreight specialist Volga-Dnepr Airlines and scheduled air cargo operator AirBridgeCargo Airlines, said the carriers' combined traffic increased seven percent year-on-year in 2009 to 1.85 billion FTKs, which

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    Volga-Dnepr Group out-performs industry average

    2010-04-02T00:00:00Z

    April 2 - Volga-Dnepr Group, parent of heavy airfreight specialist Volga-Dnepr Airlines and scheduled air cargo operator AirBridgeCargo Airlines, said the carriers' combined traffic increased seven percent year-on-year in 2009 to 1.85 billion FTKs, which

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    Sarans round-up of lifting shows range of activity

    2010-04-02T00:00:00Z

    April 2 - In a round-up of activities to date, global heavy lift crane operator Sarans has revealed a number of operations using the company's range of cranes.

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    Seaports of Niedersachsen are nuts about Brazil

    2010-04-02T00:00:00Z

    April 2 - The Seaports of Niedersachsen has identified significant opportunities in Brazil and will being exhibiting at South America's largest logistics trade fair - Intermodal South America in Sao Paulo.

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    1,000 tonne crane debuted by Terex

    2010-04-02T00:00:00Z

    April 2 - Three and a half years after crane manufacturer Terex anounced its decision to build a 1,000 tonne capacity telescopic boom mobile crane, the company has launched its AC 1000 crane.

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    TBS International continues discussions with its lenders

    2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

    April 1 - TBS International plc says it has secured a waiver through April 30, 2010 of certain covenants with respect to its outstanding credit facilities with its syndicate of lenders led by Bank of America, its syndicate of lenders led by The Royal Bank

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    Washington shift could benefit heavy lift operators

    2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

    April 1 - Heavy lift operators servicing the oil and gas industries may be able to benefit from a loosening of restrictions on US domestic offshore drilling for oil signalled by President Obama in a recently announced bill to tackle climate change.

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    Daily Express wins top GE Energy safety award

    2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

    April 1 - Daily Express, one of the USA's leading oversize load and wind energy trucking companies, has received the 2009 General Electric Energy Environmental Health and Safety Award (EHS) for achieving the highest safety results in the industry in an en

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    Famous Belgian travels to Shanghai, courtesy of Ahlers

    2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

    April 1 - Global forwarder Ahlers has moved a gigantic statue of a Smurf to Shanghai in what sounds like a April Fool's story but isn't.