All Shipping articles – Page 290

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    Serving the Caspian

    2009-08-05T00:00:00Z

    August 5 - The St Petersburg-based North Western Shipping Company is, according to reports in the Russian media, towing a new non-propelled barge from St Petersburg to Ravenna in Italy where it will load equipment destined for the construction of an oil a

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    Beluga carries world's largest buoy

    2009-08-05T00:00:00Z

    August 5 - It took the combined skills of shipping line, client and manufacturer to move a buoy some 27 metres high and weighing more than 1100 tons from Indonesia to an offshore location in the Gulf of Mexico.

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    Success for first PPG conference in USA

    2009-08-04T00:00:00Z

    August 4 - More than 90 freight movers and ship owners from 34 countries converged in Corpus Christi for the five-day Project Professionals Group (PPG) conference, which began last week

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    DB Schenker adds to shipment monitoring options

    2009-08-04T00:00:00Z

    August 4 - DB Schenker has launched the DB SCHENKERsmartbox service, a satellite-aided real-time shipment tracking solution which transmits a shipment's current GPS co-ordinates and any deviations from the predetermined route, and provides information on

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    SAL expands in Australasia

    2009-08-03T00:00:00Z

    August 3 - Heavy lift carrier Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land (SAL) has opened a new office in Fremantle, western Australia, in an expansion of its Australasian operations.

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    New shareholders for EUROPORTS

    2009-07-29T00:00:00Z

    July 29 - Luxembourg-based port operator EUROPORTS has two new shareholders.

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    Chipolbrok adds port calls and anticipates new ships

    2009-07-28T00:00:00Z

    July 28 - Chipolbrok has recently added monthly calls at the ports of Haiphong and Singapore to its sailings from Northern Europe.

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    Dockwise secures more contracts

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    July 24 - Dockwise Shipping has secured eight new near-term contracts for the transportation of jack up drilling rigs, plus port and marine infrastructure, as well as a long-term contract for transport and installation on the Bonkot project in Thailand.

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    Heavy machinery flies into Kabul

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    July 23 - Two members of the Worldwide Project Consortium, a leading global franchise network for project cargo forwarders, have worked together to move three trucks and three telescopic handlers from Turkey to Afghanistan.

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    Rolf Riedl GmbH named top supplier by AREVA

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    July 23 - Leading global energy company, AREVA has named German heavy lift shipping specialist Rolf Riedl GmbH as one of its top suppliers out of more than 8000 suppliers in Germany.

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    Dublin airport lift for PPG members

    2009-07-21T00:00:00Z

    July 21 - Quality Freight Group (QFG) and TransGroup Worldwide Logistics are combining forces to deliver a shipment of 19 aircraft Passenger Boarding Bridges (PBBs) along with their component parts from Utah to Dublin Airport's new Terminal 2.

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    Kuehne + Nagel doesn't expect market recovery just yet

    2009-07-20T00:00:00Z

    July 20 - Kuehne + Nagel says that its half-year results confirm the Group's dual strategy of counteracting the economic crisis through strict cost management and a commitment to market share expansion.

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    Intermarine has the Edge

    2009-07-19T00:00:00Z

    July 19 - Intermarine has taken delivery of Industrial Edge, the third in a series of four newbuildings entering the shipping line's fleet this year.

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    Nordana adds Sagunto to Intramed service

    2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

    July 15 - Nordana has added port calls at Sagunto to the itinerary of its iMED service.

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    PPG and Shippingchina link up

    2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

    July 14 - Project freight forwarding network, the Project Professionals Group and Shippingchina have announced an informal strategic alliance.

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    AOP Project Partners adds Medden Shipping as a new member

    2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

    July 14 - Medden Shipping & Trading SA in Turkey is the latest company to join the AOP Project Partners network.

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    Shanghai Ocean Knight manages drill block shipment

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    July 10 - Shanghai Ocean Knight Shipping Inc, the Worldwide Project Consortium member in China, has shipped a drill block, weighing 450 tonnes from Nangton to Yangtai.

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    Jumbo Shipping and Volgo-Baltic Logistic

    2009-07-08T00:00:00Z

    July 8 - LC Volgo-Baltic Logistic (VBL), one of Russia's largest freight agencies, has signed an exclusive agreement with Jumbo Shipping and becomes the heavy lift shipping company's exclusive commercial agent for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independen

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    UMA Tunisia moves heavy cranes from the Baltic to Tunisia

    2009-07-08T00:00:00Z

    July 8 - UMA Tunisia has managed the shipment of two cranes weighing more than 495 tonnes with a total volume of 2900 cu m from the Baltic port of Klaipeda to Menzel Bourguiba in the north of Tunisia.

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    PPG heads for Corpus Christi

    2009-07-07T00:00:00Z

    July 7 - A record number of sponsors and over 100 freight forwarding executives from 34 countries are expected to attend the Project Professionals Group annual conference in Corpus Christi, Texas, later this month.