All Ports and terminals articles – Page 581
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Rickmers-Linie establishes UK liner agency
August 11 - Hamburg-headquartered Rickmers-Linie GmbH & Cie KG, specialist in the transport of breakbulk, heavy lift and project cargoes, and Escombe Lambert Holdings Ltd have established a new liner agency company in the UK, Rickmers-Linie Agency Ltd.
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Northeast Passage opened by heavy lift shipping
August 10 - While the famed North West passage across the top of North America is often discussed as a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, less well known is the potential 12,800 km Northeast Passage across the top of Russia.
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Russian forwarder sees wind power potential
August 10 - Russia could breathe new life into the country's project forwarding sector by investing in wind power technology, according to one local operator.
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Alpine shortcut for Admiral's Cup challenger
August 10 - In a scene that mimicked the famous opening sequence of the 1960 classic Italian film, La Dolce Vita, where a plaster statue of Christ is suspended by cables from a helicopter as it flies past the ruins of an ancient Roman aqueduct, a giant ca
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Gottwald's going Poti
August 7 - The Black Sea port of Poti in Georgia has ordered two HMK 260 E mobile harbour cranes from Gottwald Port Technology GmbH (Gottwald).
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Dockwise welcomes return of Mighty Servant 3
August 7 - Mighty Servant 3 has rejoined the Dockwise fleet having been undergoing repairs and reparation at the Grand Bahama Shipyard since January 2008.
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Mammoet to introduce superheavy cranes in 2011
August 7 - Heavy lift and transport specialist Mammoet will introduce two New Generation cranes, developed in-house, for the very heaviest lifts.
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Results show times are tough
August 6 - A raft of Q2 and H1 2009 results published in the last few days has demonstrated a very clear trend in the industry that has reflected the wider global picture: while all companies are down, US-based companies are more down than the rest.
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WWPC names Romanian member
August 6 - Lion Shipping & Chartering SRL has been appointed as the exclusive member in Romania of the project forwarder network - Worldwide Project Consortium Ltd (WWPC).
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Freight conference falls victim to swine flu
August 6 - Organisers of a freight conference planned for Barcelona in October have cancelled the event over fears that the worsening swine flu pandemic has created international travel restrictions and travel warnings. It will be rescheduled for a date i
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Unlucky 13 for falling airfreight demand
August 6 - Maindeck and bellyhold project airfreight suffered a double-digit fall year-on-year in June as the global economic crisis continues to hurt high and heavy project activity.
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Serving the Caspian
August 5 - The St Petersburg-based North Western Shipping Company is, according to reports in the Russian media, towing a new non-propelled barge from St Petersburg to Ravenna in Italy where it will load equipment destined for the construction of an oil a
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Beluga carries world's largest buoy
August 5 - It took the combined skills of shipping line, client and manufacturer to move a buoy some 27 metres high and weighing more than 1100 tons from Indonesia to an offshore location in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Jacobs to receive private sector employer of the year award
August 5 - Jacobs Engineering Group has been named Private Sector Employer of the Year by the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) of Northern California.
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Fleet additions lift Fairstar Heavy Transport
August 5 - In its second quarter results, Fairstar has reported continued increases in revenue and profitability, and reduced debt.
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Success for first PPG conference in USA
August 4 - More than 90 freight movers and ship owners from 34 countries converged in Corpus Christi for the five-day Project Professionals Group (PPG) conference, which began last week
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DB Schenker adds to shipment monitoring options
August 4 - DB Schenker has launched the DB SCHENKERsmartbox service, a satellite-aided real-time shipment tracking solution which transmits a shipment's current GPS co-ordinates and any deviations from the predetermined route, and provides information on
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SAL expands in Australasia
August 3 - Heavy lift carrier Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land (SAL) has opened a new office in Fremantle, western Australia, in an expansion of its Australasian operations.
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BDP acquires UK forwarder
August 3 - US-based BDP International, a privately-owned global logistics company, has acquired the UK forwarder Rostrum Forwarding Ltd but declined to reveal the terms of the transaction.
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Pacer offloads its heavy haul trucking operation
July 31 - Concord, California-based road haulier Pacer International has sold Pacer Transport, its specialised heavy-haul trucking operation, to Universal Truckload Services and UTS Leasing. The deal is expected to be concluded in August.