All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in November 2013

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  • News

    Dissaco joins GPLN

    2013-11-29T00:00:00Z

    November 29 - Antwerp, Belgium headquartered Dissaco N.V. has become the latest organisation to join the Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN).

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    Lloyd's tracks container trends

    2013-11-29T00:00:00Z

    November 29 - According to a recent paper issued by Lloyd's List Intelligence, Recent Trends in Container Shipping, over the last decade the container fleet has grown by almost 70 percent in terms of the number of vessels but more than doubled in terms of

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    PCN pair ship chassis to Brazil

    2013-11-29T00:00:00Z

    November 29 - Project Cargo Network's (PCN) Brazilian representative, Double Star Logistics, and fellow Czech Republic member, Zoom-Cargo, teamed-up to handle a ro-ro shipment of heavy-duty truck chassis from Czech Republic to Brazil.

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    Bollor

    2013-11-29T00:00:00Z

    November 29 - Senegal's Port Autonome de Dakar (PAD) has awarded the contract to operate the gateway's ro-ro terminal to Bollor

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    Eurogate, BLG and Areva deliver North Sea wind

    2013-11-29T00:00:00Z

    November 29 - Eurogate, operator of Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven (CTW), Germany, has paired with project forwarder BLG and turbine manufacturer Areva Wind to handle, store and assemble rotor stars that will be used in the Global Tech I offshore wind p

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    The Friday Flyer - November 29th 2013

    2013-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Are liner shipping lines hiding their cartels in plain sight? When the European Commission's (EC) lawmakers turned their sights on anti-competitive activity in 2011, the most obvious characteristic of a cartel was clandestine cloak-and-dagger meetings bet

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    Integrated Logistics invests in Terex

    2013-11-28T00:00:00Z

    November 28 - Kuwait-based Integrated Logistics has acquired a Terex AC 1000 all terrain crane with a lifting capacity of 1,200 tonnes, making it the largest mobile hydraulic crane in the company's 400-crane fleet.

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    Pressure shipment for Fleet Line Shipping

    2013-11-28T00:00:00Z

    November 28 - Dubai-based Fleet Line Shipping (FLS) has shipped two 106-tonne gas flotation pressure vessels from a jobsite in Hamriya free zone in Sharjah, UAE to Kuwait.

  • News

    Crowley and TITAN move to Houston

    2013-11-28T00:00:00Z

    November 28 - Crowley Maritime Corporation's solutions group, project logistics and global freight management team, and its subsidiary TITAN Salvage have relocated to a shared office and warehouse facility in Houston, Texas.

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    JasProjects wins BG Group

    2013-11-28T00:00:00Z

    November 28 - JasProjects has signed a strategic alliance confirming Jas Forwarding Worldwide as BG Group's primary freight forwarding partner for the next five years.

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    Baskets fly with Chapman Freeborn

    2013-11-28T00:00:00Z

    November 28 - Chapman Freeborn Airchartering and Michel Hurel Transport (MHT) have worked together to deliver over 70 tonnes of outsize oil well equipment.

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    Nine goes into 34 for WWL ALS

    2013-11-28T00:00:00Z

    November 28 - WWL ALS, a division of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, has coordinated the delivery of a Komatsu PC2000 excavator and eight Komatsu HD785 dump trucks from South Shields, England to Lugar & Dunbar in Scotland.

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    Highs and lows for the Port of Tacoma

    2013-11-27T00:00:00Z

    November 27 - At the Port of Tacoma, breakbulk cargo volumes were down 22.7 percent through October, compared with the same period last year.

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    Rolitrans gets reels rolling

    2013-11-27T00:00:00Z

    November 27 - Rolitrans International, based in Jakarta, Indonesia, has shipped 11 large bobbins, weighing a total of 1,747 tonnes, from Brazil to Singapore.

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    Triple crane contract for MacGregor

    2013-11-27T00:00:00Z

    November 27 - MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a new subsea crane contract to deliver three cranes for a new offshore accommodation and construction vessel, which is being built at Chantier Davie Canada Inc in Quebec.

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    Mammoet assists tower transportation

    2013-11-27T00:00:00Z

    November 27 - According to reports in the international media, Bladt Industries has completed the shipment of the tower sections for Vestas' 8 MW offshore wind turbine prototype, with Mammoet handling the road transportation.

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    Aeroscraft teams with IAC to serve Arctic regions

    2013-11-27T00:00:00Z

    November 27 - Aeroscraft Corporation - developer of the Aeroscraft, an innovative rigid air vehicle capable of transporting heavy cargoes - has established a strategic partnership with airline Icelandair Cargo (IAC) to develop new logistical air freight r

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    Normal operation returns at Qingdao Port

    2013-11-26T00:00:00Z

    November 26 - Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has advised that Qingdao Port in China is now operating normally following a pipeline explosion in the city's Huangdao district last week.

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    F.S. Mackenzie makes it six in Russia

    2013-11-26T00:00:00Z

    November 26 - International forwarding group, F.S. Mackenzie, has opened its sixth Russian office, in Vladivostock.

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    STX PO board sweep

    2013-11-26T00:00:00Z

    November 26 - In the wake of the company's new rehabilitation plan, four members of the STX Pan Ocean (STX PO) board have resigned, including its ceo and executive director of just five months, Chun Il Yu.