All Ports and terminals articles – Page 260

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    Van der Vlist watches Brighton tower rise

    2015-03-05T00:00:00Z

    March 5 - Van der Vlist is helping transport 17 tower sections from Roermond in the Netherlands to the south coast of the UK, for a new 162 m high tower being built in Brighton.

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    Transdata on a roll in Brazil

    2015-03-05T00:00:00Z

    March 5 - Transdata has handled the transportation and installation of plate mill components for one of Brazil's largest steel facilities in Ouro Branco in the state of Minas Gerais.

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    Ekin on the boil in Turkey

    2015-03-05T00:00:00Z

    March 5 - Ekin Heavy & Project Cargo Transportation has coordinated the delivery of an oversize steam boiler from Ere?li to Samsun in Turkey.

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    Full steam ahead for PCN duo

    2015-03-05T00:00:00Z

    March 5 - Two members of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) - Alexander Global Logistics (AGL) and Express Global Logistics (EXG) - have worked together to arrange the transport of five diesel engines from India to Turkey.

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    Kenfreight stars in Kinangop project

    2015-03-04T00:00:00Z

    March 4 - Early in 2014, East African transport and logistics provider Kenfreight was awarded a project by Spanish company Iberdrola to transport 38 wind turbines for the Kinangop wind farm project, located about 160 km north of Nairobi near the Aberdares

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    Tanker morphs into heavy lift ship

    2015-03-04T00:00:00Z

    March 4 - For the first time in many years, HLPFI has heard about the conversion of an aframax tanker into a semi-submersible heavy lift vessel (SSHLV).

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    Geodis rebrands

    2015-03-04T00:00:00Z

    March 4 - Geodis is uniting the identities of its five operations under the single Geodis brand, with the roll-out of the new name to begin this month.

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    Ruslan defies the odds in tower airlift

    2015-03-04T00:00:00Z

    March 4 - Ruslan International has, in conjunction with Volga-Dnepr's Engineering Logistics Centre (ELC), transported a 70-tonne oil refinery stripping tower from Bakersfield, California to Erbil in Iraq.

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    EU adds guidelines for road cargo security

    2015-03-04T00:00:00Z

    March 4 - The European Commission has published the 2014 European best practices guidelines for cargo securing for road transport.

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    ZPMC-RED BOX adds two

    2015-03-04T00:00:00Z

    March 4 - ZPMC-RED BOX Energy Services has bareboat chartered the two 50,000 dwt semi-submersible ships that were originally ordered by China's United Faith Group from the Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore shipyard in 2011.

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    The Wednesday Wire - March 4th 2015

    2015-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Your midweek round-up of news from the world of heavy lift and project forwarding.

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    Gothenburg plans energy port

    2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

    March 3 - Sweden's Port of Gothenburg intends to build a new 60 ha energy port in the Risholmen area, with works scheduled to start in 2018.

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    Electrifying move for Crowley

    2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

    March 3 - Crowley Maritime Corporation's liner services group has transported two large electrical equipment enclosures, each weighing 44.4 tonnes, to San Juan in Puerto Rico.

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    Lovemore Bros ups rigging capacity

    2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

    March 3 - Lovemore Bros has invested ZAR3.85 million (USD325,988) in a new hydraulic gantry crane with a lifting capacity of 350 tonnes.

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    Silk Way finalises Boeing deal

    2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

    March 3 - Silk Way Group will purchase three Boeing 747-8 freighter aircraft as per the agreement signed by the two parties in December 2014.

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    Navy boats make Jaxport call

    2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

    March 3 - Terminal operator Portus has moved the first shipment of next generation Mark VI patrol boats, built by SAFE Boats International and purchased by the U.S. Navy, through the heavy lift cargo berth at Jaxport's Blount Island Marine Terminal.

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    ALE in Belgian bridge lift

    2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

    March 3 - ALE has completed the installation of the Trilogiport Bridge in Vis

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    Rickmers concludes refinancing

    2015-03-02T00:00:00Z

    March 2 - Rickmers Group has successfully concluded the negotiations on the general reorganisation of existing bank loans with a total value of EUR1.28 billion (USD1.43 billion), with corresponding contracts signed with a group of principal banks.

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    Statoil chooses Pioneering Spirit

    2015-03-02T00:00:00Z

    March 2 - Statoil has signed a contract with Allseas for the installation of three platform topsides on the Johan Sverdup field, using its recently renamed platform installation and decommissioning vessel Pioneering Spirit.

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    Gruber cements deal with HW

    2015-03-02T00:00:00Z

    March 2 - Gruber Logistics has taken over the logistics department of Cologne-based cement plant manufacturer Humboldt Wedag (HW), a subsidiary of KHD Humboldt Wedag International.