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    Maersk plans to back off shipping

    2012-11-20T00:00:00Z

    November 20 - The UK based Financial Times newspaper has reported that Danish oil and shipping group AP Moller-Maersk will not invest significantly in its shipping business over the next five years and will focus on its oil, drilling rigs and ports.

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    Air Charter Service responds to Sandy

    2012-11-20T00:00:00Z

    November 20 - In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, global broker Air Charter Service has been arranging aircraft charters to provide vital support to thousands of New Yorkers trying get their lives back to normal.

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    SF remarks on low level of ILO implementation

    2012-11-19T00:00:00Z

    November 19 - The International Shipping Federation (ISF), which represents maritime employers globally, says that the low level of implementation of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 185, concerning the facilitation of shore leave an

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    Inchcape Shipping wins Grieg Star business in Houston

    2012-11-19T00:00:00Z

    November 19 - Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) is the new agent in the port of Houston for specialist transportation & logistic services company, Grieg Star Shipping.

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    Australia creates world's biggest marine park

    2012-11-19T00:00:00Z

    November 19 - Australia has created the world's largest network of marine national parks, protecting a 2.3 million square km (888,035 sq mi) area of ocean roughly the size of Western Europe.

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    The Friday Flyer

    2012-11-16T00:00:00Z

    November 16 - It's time again for another edition of HLPFI's Friday Flyer, giving you a round-up of news from the last week, together with a few comments and asides from the editorial team.

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    KAMAG takes US Space Shuttle on its final trip

    2012-11-16T00:00:00Z

    November 16 - The US Space Shuttle Endeavour made its final journey in October - a 20 km trip through the streets of Los Angeles carried on self-propelled modular trailers manufactured by Ulm, Germany based KAMAG.

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    TIACA welcomes ETS reprieve

    2012-11-16T00:00:00Z

    November 16 - The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) has welcomed the announcement by EU Climate Action Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard to suspend the inclusion of international aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and to allow the

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    Project Professionals Group enrolls Stella Group

    2012-11-16T00:00:00Z

    November 16 - Project forwarding network, the Project Professionals Group (PPG), has appointed Stella Group as its new Project Support member for Finland, the Baltics and Russia.

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    Italy's first Terex Challengers join Vernazza

    2012-11-16T00:00:00Z

    November 16 - Vernazza Autogru, a lifting and transport company based in Genoa, has recently acquired a Terex Challenger 3160 and a Challenger 3180 All Terrain Crane with 55 and 60 tonnes of lifting capacity respectively.

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    Boskalis raises earnings outlook

    2012-11-16T00:00:00Z

    November 16 - Royal Boskalis Westminster, a leading global services provider operating in the marine services area and providing heavy lift services through its SMIT subsidiary has reported a good third quarter to 2012.

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    GAC Pindar joins TNL in Australasia

    2012-11-16T00:00:00Z

    November 16 - GAC Pindar has announced a new venture with global freight forwarder TNL International, to offer specialist marine leisure logistics services to the growing Australasian market.

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    Dockwise to appeal court ruling

    2012-11-16T00:00:00Z

    November 16 - Dockwise, the Netherlands-based marine transport company, has confirmed that it is appealing against its recent loss of a court case brought against the ex-ceo of Fairstar Heavy Transport, Philip Adkins, which sought to gain access to the la

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    Hamburg holds steady

    2012-11-15T00:00:00Z

    November 15 - The Port of Hamburg's overall results for the first nine months have been characterised by export growth and an import downturn. In the first nine months of 2012 the German port achieved a total throughput of 98.1 million tonnes (down 0.8 pe

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    Dockwise wraps up Fairstar shares

    2012-11-15T00:00:00Z

    November 15 -Dockwise has reminded the shareholders in Fairstar Heavy Transport that 'squeeze out' procedures have been initiated for the remaining approximately 0.4 percent of the stakeholding in Fairstar.

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    WWPC partners handle Turkey to USA move

    2012-11-14T00:00:00Z

    November 14 - Albacor Shipping Mahwah of New Jersey, a member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) for the USA, has arranged for the transport of 3,000 cu m of cement-making equipment from the Turkish port of Izmir to Kansas, USA.

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    Liebherr offshore cranes support Cygnus

    2012-11-14T00:00:00Z

    November 14 - Crane manufacturer Liebherr-Werk Nenzing in Austria has been awarded a contract to provide four RL 2650-25 D EX Litronic offshore cranes to GDF Suez E&P UK for the Cygnus gas field project.

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    Agility posts strong increase

    2012-11-14T00:00:00Z

    November 14 - Global logistics provider Agility reports a net profit of KWD9.75 million (USD3.5 million) for the third quarter of 2012. Compared to a net profit of KWD8.05 million (USD2.9 million) in the same quarter of 2011, this is an increase of 21 per

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    Corpus Christi acquires former US. Naval property

    2012-11-14T00:00:00Z

    November 14 - Texas, USA Port Corpus Christi and Oxy Ingleside Energy Center, have finalised the sale of the larger portion of the adjacent former US Ingleside Naval Station.

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    Container train travels China - Europe in 16 days

    2012-11-14T00:00:00Z

    November 14 - A container block train comprising 50 standard 40 ft containers has travelled from Wuhan in Central China to Pardubice, about 100 km east of the Czech capital Prague, in just 16 days.