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    SMIT achieves net profit of EUR 28 million in first quarter

    2009-05-14T00:00:00Z

    May 14 - Net profit for SMIT in the first quarter of 2009 amounted to EUR 28 million, including a net contribution of EUR 10 million from the financial settlement of the 'Thunderhorse' project, without which, net profit from normal operating activities sh

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    Braemar Shipping Services: Best year ever

    2009-05-13T00:00:00Z

    May 13 - In reporting its best ever annual results ending February 28th, Braemar Shipping Services identified its Cory Brothers, Fred Olsen and Freight Action business units for particular praise.

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    Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics adds new ro-ro connections for South America's West Coast

    2009-05-13T00:00:00Z

    May 13 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has introduced a new service offering monthly port calls at Guayaquil in Ecuador and Callao in Peru in the trade between North and South America.

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    Sea trials for Fairstar Fjell

    2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

    May 12 - Off Malta, Fairstar's semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Fjell has successfully completed a series of tests and manoeuvres required by classification society, DNV prior to achieving Class approval.

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    Big lift for Mundra

    2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

    May 12 - A little bit of history was created at Mundra Port when Panalpina World Transport India Pvt Ltd.'s specialised business division, Panprojects worked with Sai Maritime & Management Pvt Ltd - exclusive agent in India for SAL Shipping - to move a hu

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    Ahlers celebrates 100th birthday, opens in Angola

    2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

    May 12 - Ahlers welcomed over 600 customers, partners, friends and staff to the renovated Ahlers House to celebrate its 100th birthday.

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    Siemens powers Singapore, thanks to Rickmers

    2009-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - The second largest gas turbine ever manufactured by Siemens was recently loaded on the breakbulk ship Rickmers Jakarta at the Wallmann Terminal, Hamburg for shipment to Singapore.

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    Heavy lift efforts take Spanish navy to Persian Gulf

    2009-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - In March, Vasco Gallega de Consignaciones undertook the movement of a consignment of two Spanish naval patrol boats from the Port of Vigo to the Persian Gulf to support international naval operations in the region.

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    Agility expands in Romania

    2009-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - Global forwarder Agility has expanded its coverage in Eastern Europe by opening a new subsidiary in Romania. This follows Agility's expansion into Poland, Austria, Hungary and Slovenia in 2008.

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    SDV's Norman conquest as new slipway inaugurated

    2009-05-08T00:00:00Z

    May 8 - A new ro-ro slipway at the Normandy port of Di

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    Mammoet Road Cargo named best managed company

    2009-05-08T00:00:00Z

    May 8 - Mammoet Road Cargo has been chosen as one of the 50 best managed companies in The Netherlands in a competition organised by accountants Deloitte and a number of academic and business organisations.

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    Northern Stevedoring Services makes strategic acquisition down under

    2009-05-08T00:00:00Z

    May 8 - Queensland stevedoring company Northern Stevedoring Services (NSS) has acquired equipment hire company S. Colborne Equipment Hire. NSS has sourced equipment from S. Colborne for over a decade.

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    TBS International swings to Q1 loss

    2009-05-08T00:00:00Z

    May 8 - In its first quarter results, TBS International swung to loss, hurt by a drop in freight rates, sending its shares down as much as 18 percent.

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    New line targets shortsea and inland waterways movements

    2009-05-07T00:00:00Z

    May 7 - A new heavy lift shipping line that will focus on the shipment of over-dimensional and heavy cargoes in coastal waters, or inland waterways has been launched.

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    BBC delivers first turbines at Coquimbo

    2009-05-07T00:00:00Z

    May 7 - BBC Chartering has delivered blades and towers for the construction of 10 wind turbines at Barrick's Punta Colorada wind farm at the Port of Coquimbo, Chile.

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    Donjon Marine crosses Atlantic for salvage work

    2009-05-07T00:00:00Z

    May 7 - Later this month, New Jersey-based marine salvage and heavy lift company, Donjon Marine is set to begin salvage operations to raise and dispose of the remnants of the Fedra, which grounded and sank in seven metres of water off the eastern side of

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    "K" Line 2008 results helped by positive heavy lift activities

    2009-05-07T00:00:00Z

    May 7 - The heavy lift shipping business, including the transport of petrochemical plant and infrastructure-related heavy lifts, was one positive note to come out of "K" Line's 2008 results.

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    R&L Canada in tough rig move

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    May 6 - Rohde & Liesenfeld Canada, in which Geodis-Wilson has a 50 percent shareholding, has won a major contract to move a drilling rig.

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    Nordana adds ro-ro loop for the Med

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    May 6 - Nordana Line has introduced a new dedicated intra-Mediterranean ro-ro service, adding to the string of ro-ro, multipurpose and container services that the shipping line operates between North and Latin America and the Mediterranean and West Africa

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    Chapman Freeborn founder given lifetime achievement award

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    May 6 - Chris Chapman, chairman and founder of Chapman Freeborn Airchartering, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Air Cargo News Awards in London last week, in recognition of his contribution to the air charter industry.