October 6 - Rollit Cargo has handled the movement of a 325-tonne shiploader, used in the mining industry, from a storage area to the quayside in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium.
The shiploader was transported 300 m using 20 axle lines of Scheuerle self-propelled modular transporters (SPMT).
Measuring 63 m x 17.5 m x 27 m, the unit was loaded onboard a geared heavy lift vessel using its two 700-tonne capacity cranes for onward shipment to Angola.
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.
