All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in September 2010
View all stories from this issue.
-
News
Maximus honours its charity pledge
September 30 - Maximus Air Cargo, the UAE's largest all-cargo airline, has successfully completed the relief flights which it gifted to the Red Crescent Authority's (RCA) recent telethon.
-
News
Liebherr delivers one of the largest mobile harbour cranes
September 29 - Liebherr claims to have delivered the largest mobile harbor crane on the east coast of the USA to Rukert Terminals, Baltimore where it was officially commissioned for service.
-
News
New Job Opportunity at The Freight Company
September 29 - Swiss owned freight and logistics company, The Freight Company Ltd, is looking for a managing director for Vietnam.
-
News
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics appoints deputy CEO
September 29 - Christopher J. Connor has been named deputy chief executive officer of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), effective October 1, 2010.
-
News
ALS ships its longest piece of cargo
September 29 - ALS has shipped its longest single piece of cargo to date, moving a 71 m Mobile Offshore Production Unit riser from Dunkirk, France to Abu Dhabi, UAE.
-
News
Fairstar wins rig transport contract
September 28 - Fairstar Heavy Transport has been awarded a new transportation contract by Hercules Offshore to transport the Hercules 185 jack-up rig from Port Gentil, Gabon to either Pascagoula, Mississippi or Bahrain using the Fairstar semi-submersible
-
News
ALE Heavylift in crane installation at Tarragona
September 28 - ALE Heavylift Iberica has performed the skidding of three 1270 tonne container cranes from the assembly area up to the dockside rails on the Andalucia pier at Tarragona Port, Spain.
-
News
Dockwise delivers first of 15 modules for Koniambo project
September 28 - Heavy lift shipping line Dockwise has been selected as the contractor of choice for the transport of 15 onshore modules for the Koniambo nickel project in New Caledonia, Melanesia in the southwest Pacific.
-
News
Mexican celebrations take off in France thanks to Volga-Dnepr
September 27 - Main deck capacity provider Volga-Dnepr operated its first flight from an airfield in the Pyrenees in over a decade when it transported two Super Puma helicopters from France to take part in a military parade to mark Mexico's bicentenary ce
-
News
Martin Bencher extends US coverage with new office
September 27 - Scandinavia-based freight forwarder Martin Bencher Group has opened a new office in Houston, Texas to further strengthen its position in North America.
-
News
Long appointment strengthens GAC Australia
September 27 - GAC Australia has appointed Gareth Long as commercial manager, to drive business development at all Australian ports and beyond the country's borders.
-
News
Wilhelmsen Ships Service opens new warehouse in Russia
September 24 - Wilhelmsen Ships Service has opened its first warehouse in the Russian Federation.
-
News
Schenker subsidiary to introduce first hybrid vehicle fleet for rail freight operations in Europe
September 24 - DB Schenker Rail and Alstom signed an agreement for the first European test fleet of switching locomotives equipped with hybrid drive system earlier this week at the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin.
-
News
Cargotec to present its widest product range at IAA 2010
September 24 - Cargotec is set to exhibit at the IAA Commercial Vehicles exhibition in Hanover, Germany, on 23-30 September.
-
News
South Carolina State Ports Authority to implement new terminal operating system
September 23 - Zebra Enterprise Solutions (ZES), a division of Zebra Technologies, announced today that the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) plans to use its web-based Navis SPARCS N4 terminal operating system (TOS).
-
News
Panalpina appoints key leadership positions
September 23 - Panalpina has appointed three industry experts to lead its core products of ocean freight, airfreight and logistics.
-
News
ALS opens Hamburg office
September 23 - ALS has opened a new office in Hamburg, Germany. The new site will contribute towards the ALS Group strategy to expand its network and business opportunities in South America for turnkey project work.
-
News
Air Charter Service has a whale of a time
September 23 - Earlier this month Air Charter Service (ACS) Hong Kong flew eight Beluga whales from Vladivostok, Russia into Guangzhou, China.
-
News
Ahlers transports heavy transformer from Antwerp to Jeddah
September 23 - Ahlers staff in Antwerp handled the transportation of a heavy transformer of 321 tonnes U.W., together with 418 tonnes worth of accessories.