All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in October 2016 – Page 5
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Emirates expands Scandinavian network
October 12 - Emirates SkyCargo has launched a weekly freighter service from Oslo to Dubai, operated by a Boeing 777 aircraft with a cargo capacity of just over 100 tonnes.
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Blue Water names IT head
October 12 - Blue Water Shipping has appointed Peter Matthiesen as its new chief information officer (cio).
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BOCS makes Bilbao home
October 12 - According to Uniport Bilbao, German shipowner BOCS (Bremen Overseas Chartering and Shipping) has made Bilbao its home port for Spanish operations.
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Big crane comes to Caribbean
October 12 - Liebherr Maritime Cranes has delivered an LHM 600 mobile harbour crane to Kingston Wharves in Jamaica.
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Lucky 13 for PNI Logistics
October 12 - PNI Logistics has coordinated the delivery of 13 modules, weighing in between 150 and 200 tonnes, from various fabrication yards in the UAE to Jebel Ali port, and onto a nearby jetty.
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Mallory makes for Miami
October 11 - Mallory Alexander International Logistics has opened a new office and warehouse in Miami, Florida, USA.
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Hawk takes on stranded rig
October 11 - According to the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), the rig Transocean Winner has been loaded on board Offshore Heavy Transport's (OHT) heavy transport vessel Hawk.
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Port NOLA strengthens Cuban ties
October 11 - The Port of New Orleans has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cuba, which pledges to expand trade and commerce opportunities between Louisiana and the Caribbean nation.
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US clears Konecranes-Terex deal
October 11 - Konecranes has received clearance from the committee on foreign investment in the USA for its pending acquisition of Terex's material handling and port solutions (MHPS) business.
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GE to buy LM Wind Power
October 11 - Doughty Hanson - a London based private equity company - has agreed to sell its stakes in Danish manufacturer and supplier of wind turbine blades, LM Wind Power, to General Electric (GE) for EUR1.5 billion (USD1.65 billion).
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ACS gets new investors
October 11 - Air Charter Service (ACS) has welcomed its first external investors after Alcuin Capital Partners purchased a minority stake in the UK air charter broker.
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Polytra shines in solar move
October 10 - Polytra has coordinated the delivery of 3,200 solar panels from China to a small village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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TPI Megaline loads Octopus
October 10 - Korean heavy lift shipping company TPI Megaline has selected ABB's predictive Octopus marine software to ensure safe and efficient operations on one of its vessels.
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Swiber granted judicial management
October 10 - Swiber Holdings, the Singapore based integrated offshore construction and support services provider for shallow water oil and gas field development, has been placed under judicial management while it reorganises its debt.
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Peter the Great travels with Combi Dock
October 10 - Combi Lift's semi-submersible vessel Combi Dock III has successfully delivered the floating backhoe dredger, Peter the Great, from Zeebrugge, Belgium to Kaliningrad, Russia.
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Modulift assists monopile move
October 10 - Schmidbauer employed a Modulift spreader beam to help lift 30 monopiles, weighing around 750 tonnes each, at the Port of Cuxhaven in Germany.
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Williams Shipping aims high
October 10 - Williams Shipping, an expanding marine and logistics firm based in Southampton, UK, has boosted its cargo handling capabilities with the investment in a powerful reach stacker and the development of a new one-acre cargo handling yard for its
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ABC ups Boeing fleet
October 10 - Volga-Dnepr Group has taken delivery of its latest Boeing 747-8 freighter, which will be employed in the fleet of AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC).
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Felbermayr subsidiaries get new home
October 7 - Felbermayr subsidiaries Wimmer Maschinentransporte and Hagn Umwelttechnik have relocated to a new 40,000 sq m site at the Sulzemoos industrial park near Munich, Germany.
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Drewry releases latest multipurpose report
October 7 - According to the latest Multipurpose Shipping Market Review and Forecaster report published by Drewry, "the last three months have been some of the worst the multipurpose and project carrier sector has endured in living memory".