Wilhelmsen UAE worked together with its maritime logistics and ships agency teams to deliver 12,483 tonnes of prime-cast steel billets from Qatar to the UAE.
Its scope included identifying suitable breakbulk vessel for transport, as well as vessel agency at the ports of loading and discharge. It coordinated operations at both ports, import handling, Customs clearance, and delivery form under the hook to the client’s facility.
Wilhelmsen UAE is member to the Project Cargo Network (PCN),
Much has been written about Saudi Arabia’s suite of gigaprojects and the potential on offer for the project logistics community. However, there have been nagging doubts that the sheer scale of development, and the costs involved, could see the scope reined in somewhat.
Saudi Arabia-based crane and heavy haulage company Arabian Machinery & Heavy Equipment (AMHE) has ordered 55 Liebherr mobile cranes with lifting capacities between 100 and 800 tonnes.
Air charter specialist Chapman Freeborn has made two senior appointments and has opened an office in Saudi Arabia.
The final Sydney Metro West tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have arrived at The Bays Station site, where they will commence tunnelling this year.
Heavy lifting and engineered transport provider Sarens has loaded in, transported and installed three 360-tonne gas bullet tanks for a gas storage project in Hitia’a, Tahiti.
Mammoet is deploying its 3,200-tonne capacity PTC210-DS ring crane to lift a huge A-frame for Van Oord’s installation vessel Svanen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
