Ports and Terminals news – Page 502

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    Blue Water Shipping takes on a series project transports

    2011-05-16T00:00:00Z

    May 16 - As part of an agreement with Dutch company SBM Offshore for all logistics in connection with the FPSO Cidade de Paraty project in Brazil, Blue Water Shipping in Aberdeen recently arranged part of a series of project transports.

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    Freight Wings handles significant loadout

    2011-05-13T00:00:00Z

    May 13 - Heavy lift transportation and erection company, Freight Wings has completed a project involving critical logistics and engineering after handling a significant loadout of over-dimensional cargo at the Kattupalli yard of Larsen & Toubro Ltd near E

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    Pedestal crane handed over just 15 months after deal inked

    2011-05-13T00:00:00Z

    May 13 - Huisman, the Dutch-based specialist in lifting, drilling and subsea solutions, has handed over a new 600-tonne pedestal crane after successful competition of load testing to clients Centrica Renewable Energy Ltd and MPI Offshore, just 15 months a

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    Liebherr proves its worth at industrial gas facility

    2011-05-13T00:00:00Z

    May 13 - A Liebherr LR 1600/2 lattice boom crane operated by Breuer&Wasel GmbH achieved a major success at an industrial gas installation in Duisburg.

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    HLPFI partners industry conference

    2011-05-12T00:00:00Z

    May 12 - HLPFI is continuing its partnership with Hanson Wade as official media partner for HEAVY Asia Pacific 2011, which takes place from 26-27 July in Singapore.

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    DB Schenker debuts Eco Solutions for greener transport

    2011-05-12T00:00:00Z

    May 12 - DB Schenker has exhibited its new portfolio of services at the Transport Logistic 2011 trade fair in Munich. This includes its Eco Solutions, the forwarder's range of climate-friendly transportation and logistics services.

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    Heavy lift comes to the small screen

    2011-05-12T00:00:00Z

    May 12 - Viewers of a TV documentary series on the global aviation industry will be treated to a behind-the-scenes look at a recent heavy lift maindeck shipment made on an AN-124 freighter.

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    Breakbulk Europe starts next week

    2011-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - 'Thinking Globally for the Long Haul' is the banner for the 6th Annual Breakbulk Europe Transportation Conference & Exhibition which will take place next week in Antwerp, Belgium, from May 17 - 19.

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    Wind flows through BOW Terminal's sales

    2011-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - Zeeland Seaports' BOW terminal in Vlissingen's Westhofhaven says that business really started to move in the first quarter of 2011 and the company, which began its operations in 2010, concluded various contracts for the handling, transhipment and

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    Project Cargo Network names Conveyor Logistics in Bangladesh

    2011-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - Dhaka-based Conveyor Logistics is the latest recruit to the fast growing Project Cargo Network, its first member in Bangladesh.

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    SDV Horoz on the double

    2011-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - The Project Cargo Network (PCN) member for Turkey, SDV Horoz has completed the shipment of a transformer, pictured below, weighing over 170 tonnes to Germany from Turkey.

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    Heavy lift specialist joins Tiaca board

    2011-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - Volga-Dnepr's Vladimir Zubkov is one of four leading air cargo industry executives elected onto the board of directors of The International Air Cargo Association (Tiaca).

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    WWPC's Albacor and Steder move chimneys

    2011-05-10T00:00:00Z

    May 10 - Worldwide Project Consortium members Albacor Shipping and Steder Group teamed up to move two chimneys from Esbjerg, Denmark to a refinery in Whiting, Indiana in the USA.

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    Leading weather company acquires offshore forecasting technology business

    2011-05-09T00:00:00Z

    May 9 - MeteoGroup has acquired Nowcasting International, a global weather forecasting company specialising in metocean solutions for the offshore industry.

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    Allseas and Synergy relocate factory

    2011-05-09T00:00:00Z

    May 9 - The relocation of an entire paper processing plant from the UK to Bangladesh gave heavy lift specialist Allseas Global Logistics the opportunity to demonstrate its experience and expertise in handling this type of complex project.

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    DB Schenker Logistics opens new office in Kaluga, Russia

    2011-05-09T00:00:00Z

    May 9 - ZAO SCHENKER, DB Schenker Logistics' Russian subsidiary, has recently launched a new business unit in Kaluga.

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    Munich hosts successful GPLN conference

    2011-05-09T00:00:00Z

    May 9 - The Global Project Logistics Network's (GPLN's) conference in Munich last week brought together 136 project cargo experts and independent project logistics specialist companies from around the world.

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    DHL set to boost Africa's oil and energy sector

    2011-05-06T00:00:00Z

    May 6 - DHL Global Forwarding is to launch four oil and energy centres of excellence across Africa over the next 12 months in Cape Town, South Africa, Luanda, Angola, Accra, Ghana and Mombasa, Kenya.

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    Cargo Equipment owners and operators set to meet in Amsterdam

    2011-05-06T00:00:00Z

    May 6 - Members of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE), the global network for equipment owners and operators, supporting manufacturers and carriers, who are involved in the actual movement of heavy cargo, will gather in Amsterdam from May 19-21 to conduct

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    Investment spurs growth at Hamilton

    2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

    May 5 - Oversized project cargo including Molson fermentation tanks, windmill blades and pressure vessels is cited by the Port of Hamilton as helping a cargo diversification programme aimed at doubling the volume of non-steel related commodities moving th