Ports and Terminals news – Page 493

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    Famous Pacific Shipping goes for gold in Olympic train trials

    2011-08-03T00:00:00Z

    August 3 - Famous Pacific Shipping, the fast-expanding Asia-based NVOCC and freight services provider, has donned its best sporting kit to start deliveries of railroad equipment from China to Brazil to support fans of the world's greatest sporting festiva

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    Lift & Shift claims a world record with India move

    2011-08-03T00:00:00Z

    August 3 - India's Lift & Shift is claiming another record, having shipped what it says is the world's largest coke drum and vacuum column.

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    New IMO armed guarding guidelines underline the need for vetting

    2011-08-03T00:00:00Z

    August 3 - Gray Page, a leading specialist maritime intelligence, investigation and crisis management company, has said that the IMO's Maritime Safety Committee's (MSC) recently approved interim guidance on the employment of privately contracted armed sec

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    Deep-water jack-up rig to start journey to new Bentley field

    2011-08-02T00:00:00Z

    August 2 - A deep-water jack-up rig vital for the development of the Bentley oil discovery located in Block 9/3b in the North Sea, 160 km east of Shetland Isles on the western edge of the Viking Graben, has been delivered on time by the Keppel FELS shipya

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    ESTA marks RUD's ICE-CURT tensioner with safety award

    2011-08-02T00:00:00Z

    August 2 - The European Association of abnormal road transport and mobile cranes (ESTA) placed German materials handling manufacture RUD's ICE-CURT tensioner in its safety category.

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    Rising star in China sees fourth office opening

    2011-08-02T00:00:00Z

    August 2 - Global Star Logistics (China), which recently changed its name from Global Star Logistics, has opened its fourth office in the country with a new location in Chongqing covering for west of China.

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    Sugar is sweet for ALE

    2011-08-02T00:00:00Z

    August 2 - Global heavy lifting and transport company, ALE has successfully completed the transportation of two CO2 vessels to the UK's biggest sugar supplier, British Sugar. The 28 metre long vessels were required as part of a site upgrade at the firm's

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    Demag Cranes supplies more floating cranes for the Mississippi

    2011-08-02T00:00:00Z

    August 2 - Gottwald Port Technology GmbH (Gottwald), a subsidiary of Demag Cranes AG, has been awarded a contract to supply two more Floating Cranes to St. James Stevedoring Partners, Llc, Louisiana, USA, to enter service on the Mississippi river this aut

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    Alliance in the city of brotherly love

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    August 1 - The US arm of Dubai-based logistics company GAC has formed a strategic alliance with a 30-year old shipping agency based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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    Octogenarian Otto blows out his birthday candles

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    August 1 - German industrialist Otto Rettenmaier who has, since the 1950s built a number of industrial companies, including the heavy-duty and special vehicles manufacturer the TII Group, has celebrated his 85th birthday.

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    Teximarco signs on two key managers

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    August 1 - Nigerian project cargo forwarder Teximarco International has made two significant staff appointments.

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    Tampa set to welcome Crowley liner services

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    August 1 - HLPFI understands that Crowley Liner Services will add the port of Tampa to its regular Central American ro-ro service.

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    Sea Star ends Philadelphia-Puerto Rico service as business falls

    2011-08-01T00:00:00Z

    August 1 - Sea Star Line, an ocean transportation company providing transportation services to and from North America, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands, has suspended its weekly call at Philadelphia, USA connecting to Port Tioga Marine Terminal San J

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    Toll Group buys German forwarder

    2011-07-29T00:00:00Z

    July 29 - Toll Group is expanding its global forwarding business with the purchase of German ocean forwarder Andree & Wilkerling (AWG). Toll says that AWG

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    DHL Global Forwarding has new head of Industrial Projects in Germany

    2011-07-29T00:00:00Z

    July 29 - Rainer Bechler becomes the new head of Industrial Projects in Germany for DHL Global Forwarding from August 1st, 2011. He will be based in Bremen.

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    Heavy lift aircraft join forces to deliver Sukhoi flight simulator

    2011-07-29T00:00:00Z

    July 29 - A flight simulator for training Sukhoi Superjet 100 flight crews has been delivered onboard AN-124 and IL-76TD-90VD freighters from Ch

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    Vanguard transports and installs monoblock press

    2011-07-29T00:00:00Z

    July 29 - Heavy lifting and plant relocation specialist, Vanguard, has handled the transport, rigging and installation of one of the largest monoblock blanking presses fabricated to date, for a leading South African steel supplier, Aveng Trident Steel.

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    GAC strengthens marketing presence in Europe

    2011-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - GAC is expanding its regional Shipping Marketing team with the appointment of Niko Steindamm, as marketing manager, shipping, based in Bremen, Germany.

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    UTC Overseas names project director

    2011-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 -The Houston-based Project Division of UTC Overseas Inc has appointed Brent Patterson as a project director to oversee project development of industrial and global capital projects and services to engineering and procurement companies.

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    Harwich welcomes wind farm vessel

    2011-07-27T00:00:00Z

    July 27 - Harwich International Port has welcomed the maiden operational call of MPI Adventure.