All News articles – Page 919

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    Fremantle seeks ro-ro investment

    2013-12-11T00:00:00Z

    December 11 - The Port of Fremantle in Western Australia is seeking expressions of interest from the private sector to build and operate a new automotive and ro-ro terminal at its Victoria Quay.

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    Heavy-duty drill delivery

    2013-12-11T00:00:00Z

    December 11 - INTERTRANSPORT Hohnholz has transported a large drill, weighing over 40 tonnes, from Schwalmstadt to the port of Bremerhaven in Germany.

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    Coscol comments on seized ship

    2013-12-11T00:00:00Z

    December 11 - Following reports in the international media that Singapore lawyers had seized a heavylift vessel from Cosco Shipping Co Ltd (Coscol) for "unspecified reasons," Coscol has issued the following statement:

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    HLPFI sweeps home in journalism awards

    2013-12-11T00:00:00Z

    December 11 - International freight marketing organisation, the Seahorse Club presented four of Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International magazine's journalists and correspondents with awards at its Christmas Party and Journalist Awards 2013, held in

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    Agility on the double in Gothenburg

    2013-12-11T00:00:00Z

    December 11 - Agility has managed the delivery of two 500-tonne energy modules, produced by Siemens AS, Oil & Gas Solutions for an offshore oil and gas rig in Brazil, from Sweden to Norway.

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    Hartmann extends West Africa service

    2013-12-11T00:00:00Z

    December 11 - The Hartmann Group will open an additional liner service from Europe to Gabon, The Republic of Congo, DRC and Angola during the first quarter of 2014, which will be marketed under the Hartmann Project Lines brand.

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    New Pakistan member for XLP

    2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

    December 10 - Karachi, Pakistan based Project Cargo & Int'l Transportation Company has become the latest project forwarder to join the XL Projects (XLP) network.

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    Primacosped joins Project Partners

    2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

    December 10 - Primacosped's new office in Rijeka, Croatia has joined the Project Partners network.

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    Transworld makes it four

    2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

    December 10 - Transworld Projects, on behalf of Transworld Group of Companies, has employed a heavy lift geared, multipurpose vessel in the Gulf region for Inter P G Trade.

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    Volga-Dnepr flies SPMTs

    2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

    December 10 - Volga-Dnepr has delivered two large self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs), with a total weight of 51 tonnes, from Austria to Khabarovsk, Russia, on behalf of the Russian company SWTrans.

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    Caspian expansion for Terex distributor

    2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

    December 10 - Istanbul headquartered DAS Otomotiv, which has been an authorised distributor of Terex Cranes in Turkey for over 16 years, has expanded its distribution territory to include Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

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    Buhazza leaves Maximus

    2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

    December 10 - According to Middle Eastern media reports, Abu Dhabi based freighter airline, Maximus Air, has replaced its longstanding president and ceo, Fathi Buhazza.

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    Marketing focus at Air Partner

    2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

    December 10 - UK headquartered global air charter broker, Air Partner, has named Kiran Parmar its group marketing director.

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    Turk sees AN-225 future in Bahrain

    2013-12-10T00:00:00Z

    December 10 - Turk Heavy Transport plans to become the second freight agent in the Gulf to bring the Antonov AN-225 freighter aircraft to Bahrain.

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    WCT supports PPG

    2013-12-09T00:00:00Z

    December 9 - Heavy lift specialists, Project Professionals Group (PPG) has appointed World Container Trading GmbH (WCT) as its project support member for Germany.

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    NWSC leads with new heavy lift capacity

    2013-12-09T00:00:00Z

    December 9 - The 7,150 dwt dry cargo carrier, NEVA LEADER 7, built by Nevsky Shipyard LLC for Russia's North-Western Shipping Company (NWSC), has embarked on sea trials.

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    Volga-Dnepr and Chapman Freeborn in bus flight

    2013-12-09T00:00:00Z

    December 9 - Chapman Freeborn has chartered one of Volga-Dnepr Airlines' IL-76TD-90VD freighters to transport an 18 m long Irisbus Citelis bus from Turin, Italy to Astana, Kazakhstan.

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    Geodis appoints Devasia

    2013-12-09T00:00:00Z

    December 9 - Effective December 1, Geodis Wilson appointed Dean Devasia its new global chief information officer, and member of the freight management board.

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    City of Adelaide sails back down under

    2013-12-09T00:00:00Z

    December 9 - The world's oldest clipper ship, which was built in Sunderland in 1864, and carried migrants and cargo to South Australia via 23 passenger voyages between 1864 and 1886, has begun its return journey to Adelaide from Rotterdam, on Combi Lift's

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    ABS ups 'energy corridor' offering

    2013-12-09T00:00:00Z

    December 9 - Classification society, the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), will establish a new office in Houston, USA to serve its offshore industry customers.