All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in September 2017

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  • News

    Röhlig rolls into Jakarta

    2017-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - Effective October 1, Röhlig Logistik Indonesia will be operational in Jakarta.

  • News

    Groff steps up at Roanoke

    2017-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - Roanoke Insurance Group, a leading insurance and bond provider for trade and transportation, has appointed Karen Groff, currently executive vice president of operations, as president, effective October 1.

  • News

    Townsville gets the green light

    2017-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - Construction works at the Port of Townsville in northern Australia could start next year after the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the port expansion project was approved.

  • News

    Oman Shipping set to buy?

    2017-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - According to the Times of Oman, the Oman Shipping Company (OSC) is looking for secondhand container ships, each with a capacity of 3,000 teu.

  • News

    Broshuis builds for the future

    2017-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - A 6,000 sq m production hall, currently under construction at the Broshuis Kampen site in the Netherlands will be used to undertake work currently done externally by suppliers.

  • News

    Baltimore sets new record

    2017-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - The USA's Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore has handled a record amount of containers and general cargo during the fiscal year 2017, which ran from July 1, 2016 through to June 30, 2017.

  • News

    XLP concludes fifth AGM

    2017-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - XLProjects (XLP) has concluded its fifth annual general meeting (AGM) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  • News

    Stena shifts North Sea vessels

    2017-09-28T00:00:00Z

    September 28 - Stena Line will reshuffle its North Sea ro-ro services between Rotterdam's Europoort and the UK by repositioning vessels and introducing larger tonnage.

  • News

    OOCL takes fourth vessel

    2017-09-28T00:00:00Z

    September 28 - OOCL has taken delivery of the 21,413 teu containership OOCL United Kingdom, the fourth in a line of six ships ordered from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in South Korea.

  • News

    Landshut flies once more

    2017-09-28T00:00:00Z

    September 28 - Logistics Plus, in cooperation with Brazil-based Salco Logistics, has transported the German airplane Landshut, which was hijacked in 1977, from Fortaleza, Brazil to Friedrichshafen, Germany.

  • News

    Euroports loads to capacity

    2017-09-28T00:00:00Z

    September 28 - The general cargo vessel Salta, operated by GMB Maritime Liner Services, was loaded to capacity with breakbulk cargo at Euroports' terminal at the Port of Antwerp.

  • News

    Falcon names Ron Jackson

    2017-09-27T00:00:00Z

    September 27 - New York, USA-based Falcon Maritime and Aviation has appointed former Nordana Line vice president Ron Jackson as director of sales.

  • News

    Bilbao ups ro-ro capacity

    2017-09-27T00:00:00Z

    September 27 - The Port of Bilbao in the Basque Country of northern Spain has started construction of an additional ro-ro ramp.

  • News

    BahriBolloré Logistics launches

    2017-09-27T00:00:00Z

    September 27 - Bahri and the Bolloré Group have officially inaugurated their Saudi Arabia-based joint venture, BahriBolloré Logistics, which will provide end-to-end logistics and supply chain management solutions to local and international companies opera

  • News

    ALE loads out in Malaysia

    2017-09-27T00:00:00Z

    September 27 - ALE has loaded out the Baronia central processing platform (BNCPP) jacket, weighing 7,096.3 tonnes, in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia.

  • News

    Drilling machine flies with ACS

    2017-09-27T00:00:00Z

    September 27 - Air Charter Service (ACS) has transported a 27-tonne oversized drilling machine from Perth, Australia to a mining project in India, onboard one of Volga-Dnepr's Ilyushin IL-76TD-90VDs.

  • News

    PCN members on the move

    2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

    September 26 - Fortune International Transport and Gebrüder Weiss, both members of the Project Cargo Network (PCN), have coordinated the transport of a 60-tonne rotor from Italy to St. Petersburg, Russia.

  • News

    Jaxport goes green

    2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

    September 26 - Following a nationwide executive search to fill the vacant position, the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) in Florida, USA, has named Eric Green as chief executive officer (ceo).

  • Shippers told to get packing (correctly)
    News

    Shippers told to get packing (correctly)

    2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

    A coalition of cargo industry organisations representing the full breadth of the global supply chain is maintaining its campaign for safer practices in packing freight containers and other cargo transport units (CTUs).

  • News

    CES reachstackers in service with CS Wind

    2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

    September 26 - Scottish wind turbine tower manufacturer CS Wind has taken delivery of two brand new heavy-duty reachstackers manufactured by Germany-headquartered Containerhandling Equipment & Solutions (CES).