April 8 - OliCargo has transported components of a urea production factory from the manufacturing facility to the Portuguese port of Sines, for final shipment to New Orleans in the USA.
The five components, which had a total weight of 721 tonnes and volume of 1,975 cu m, were transported by road to the port using specialised trailers.
Some of the individual pieces weighed as much as 200 tonnes, with heights of 10 m.
OliCargo is a member of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) in Portugal.
Dortmund-based heavy transport provider August Alborn has purchased two EuroCompact lowbed semi-trailers from TII Scheuerle.
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.
UK-based lifting solutions and equipment provider Southern Cranes has purchased 10 Grove all-terrain cranes from Manitowoc as it updates its fleet.
Shanghai Shipbuilding Research and Design Institute (SDARI), in collaboration with DNV and Toepfer Transport, has developed two state-of-the-art multipurpose vessel designs: Octopus 12.6 and Octopus 12.
Colonel’s Island Terminal at the USA’s port of Brunswick had its busiest month ever for ro-ro cargo during March 2024 handling 77,236 units, an increase of 21 percent over the same month of last year.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has joined global public-private partnership the First Movers Coalition (FMC), which is working to scale the most critical, emerging climate technologies required to decarbonise the world’s heavy-emitting sectors.
