North America news – Page 104

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    Celtic handles GE turbines

    2016-05-10T00:00:00Z

    May 10 - Celtic Shipping Agencies was recently contracted by GE Wind to handle wind turbine components shipped from Turkey to Ireland.

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    WCA Projects on cloud nine

    2016-05-10T00:00:00Z

    May 10 - Nine members of the WCA Projects network have recently completed a number of complex project moves worldwide.

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    Crane issues discussed at ICSA

    2016-05-05T00:00:00Z

    May 5 - Industry representatives gathered for the 2016 meeting of the International Crane Stakeholder Assembly (ICSA) at the Novotel Munchen Messe in Munich, Germany on April 13, 2016.

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    High brings crane back

    2016-05-05T00:00:00Z

    May 5 - High Logistics has shipped crane parts back to the USA from Lithuania on a Hapag-Lloyd ship after the machine was used in the disassembly of the Ignalina nuclear power plant.

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    Port Manatee offers workshops

    2016-05-04T00:00:00Z

    May 4 - The International Trade Hub at Port Manatee has started a series of workshops aimed at encouraging innovative commercial ties with European and Latin American businesses.

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    GAC plays it by ear

    2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

    May 3 - GAC has coordinated the shipment of a 3.5-tonne sculpture of Van Gogh's ear from Poland to New York, USA.

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    Houston calling for Damen

    2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

    May 3 - Damen Shipyards Group has a new branch office in Houston, Texas, operating as Damen North America and representing the Damen Shipyards Newbuild, and Damen Shiprepair & Conversion businesses across North America and Canada.

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    AmQuip and Maxim to merge

    2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

    May 3 - North American private equity firm Apollo Global Management has signed agreements to acquire and merge together AmQuip Crane Rental and Maxim Crane Works.

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    NWSA goes Green

    2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

    May 3 - The Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) has signed up to participate in Green Marine - North America's voluntary environmental certification programme for the maritime industry.

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    Conquest gives Allseas a lift

    2016-05-02T00:00:00Z

    May 2 - Conquest Offshore was contracted by Allseas Group to replace the pipelaying vessel Allseas Solitaire's 300-tonne capacity crane with a new 850-tonne capacity Huisman crane at the Dutch Offshore Base in Amsterdam.

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    BNSF presses ahead

    2016-04-29T00:00:00Z

    April 29 - BNSF Logistics has coordinated the shipment of a press bolster, weighing 220,000 lb (99.7 tonnes), from a factory in Ontario, Canada to Houston, USA.

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    Cory Brothers goes Dutch

    2016-04-29T00:00:00Z

    April 29 - With effect from May 1, 2016, Cory Brothers Shipping Agency has established a new operation based at the Port of Amsterdam.

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    PCN members keep on moving

    2016-04-29T00:00:00Z

    April 29 - Member of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) in India, Procam Logistics, has coordinated the shipment of 24 wind turbine blades from Quinhuangdao, China to the Ratlam District of Madhya Pradesh via the Indian Port of Kandla.

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    Ex-Im Bank struggles not over

    2016-04-29T00:00:00Z

    April 29 - At an official reception hosted by UTC Overseas, US Senator Lindsey Graham provided an update on the US Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank and its work of underwriting loan guarantees for American-exported projects, large and small.

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    Bahri and Rickmers-Linie agree space charter

    2016-04-22T00:00:00Z

    April 22 - Rickmers-Linie and the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (trading as Bahri Liner) have recently signed a space charter agreement in the trade between the USA, the Red Sea and the Middle East.

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    Study shows US cross-border problems

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - In the USA, as part of a study on multi-state, multimodal oversize/overweight (OS/OW) transportation for the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the management consulting firm CPCS indexed 72 unique OS/OW regulations, operational restrictions,

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    WWL takes third ro-ro ship

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has seen the maiden voyage of Theben, a brand new High Efficiency RoRo (HERO) class vessel, in the Asia-Europe trade.

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    DHL launches US Customs brokerage system

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - DHL Global Forwarding (DHLGF) has been collaborating with software provider Kewill to develop and launch a new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)-compliant Customs brokerage system, in an effort to expedite DHL's customers' Customs entries

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    Liquidation for maritime security group

    2016-04-20T00:00:00Z

    April 20 - The Security Association for the Maritime Industry (SAMI) has entered into voluntary administration following a fall in membership.

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    Another container alliance formed

    2016-04-20T00:00:00Z

    April 20 - CMA CGM, Cosco Container Lines, Evergreen Line and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a new container shipping alliance covering the Asia-Europe, Asia-Mediterranean, Asia-Red Sea, Asia-Middle