All Africa articles – Page 99
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Breakbulk regional focus highlights 3PL opportunities
November 26 - A regional market focus on Australia during the Breakbulk Asia Transportation Conference & Exhibition from 26-27 January in Singapore next year will highlight the tremendous freight forwarding opportunities fuelled by AUD112.5 billion (USD10
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Lack of infrastructure threatens Lekki port project
November 18 - The Nigerian media is reporting that the promoters of the proposed N1.2 trillion (USD8 billion) Lekki port are urging the federal and state governments to help in the provision of basic infrastructure that would make their huge investment in
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Darka for Trading strikes gold in Eritrea
November 17 - History was made in November when a project cargo consignment was moved for the first time across the Sudan/Eritrea border following landing at Port Sudan, Sudan. The consignment, an 82 tonne crane was destined for Bisha gold mine in Eritrea
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WWPC reveals new members
November 16 - With immediate effect, the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) is exclusively represented in Mauritius by Relocation and Moving Solutions Ltd.
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NMA moves four liftboats from the US to West Africa
November 16 - COSCOL's semi-submersible vessel Kang Skang Kou successfully transported four Hercules Offshore liftboats from Freeport, Texas to Lagos, Nigeria.
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Panalpina blows hot with oil and gas industry wins
November 13 - According to a statement from Panalpina, Weatherford and Halliburton, two major global players in the oil and gas sector and long-time Panalpina customers have awarded significant new pieces of business to the global forwarding and logistics
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Ahlers trades pipes
November 13 - Ahlers Forwarding has handled the shipment of 596 bundles of steel pipes from Shanghai to Onne Port, Nigeria onboard Safmarine Lualaba.
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Chapman Freeborn expands in South Africa
November 11 - Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has announced the formal expansion of its global charter coverage into South Africa.
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Multitrade Spain supports public transport investments
November 9 - Barcelona-based project cargo forwarder Multitrade Spain, a member of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) network, has been involved in a range of heavy lift movements associated with passenger infrastructure projects in North Africa and South
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Toll completes hat-trick of 2009 acquisitions
November 9 - Australian-based Toll Group has acquired Logistic Distribution Systems (LDS), one of the leading privately-owned international freight forwarding companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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KCA DEUTAG awards global freight tender to Panalpina
September 8 - Panalpina is likely to see significant heavy and over-dimensional shipments as part of the additional business that it has been awarded by KCA DEUTAG in the key countries of Angola, Gabon, Libya, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan over the next three
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines wins BACA award
November 4 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines has been voted 'Best Cargo Charter Airline of the Year 2009' by the Baltic Air Charter Association (BACA).
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Maximus highlights Middle East cargo advantages
November 2 - Fathi Hilal Buhazza, president and CEO of Maximus Air Cargo (pictured below), has predicted that freight traffic will triple in the Middle East over the next 20 years and says that "a sound business model mean that Maximus Air Cargo is confid
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Vanguard undertakes turnkey transport project
October 30 - Vanguard, South Africa's heavy rigging and lifting specialist, is currently completing a turnkey contract to transport transformers, reactors and accessories from port to various sites throughout the country. The items were shipped from manuf
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Zagrebtrans handles transformer for South Africa
October 30 - Croatian heavy lift transport specialist, Zagrebtrans has successfully handled the shipment of a 500 MVA transformer from Zagreb through Port Rijeka to South Africa.
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Heavy cargoes pose challenge for Mombasa
October 29 - According to a report in the Daily Nation, Kenya's leading newspaper, the arrival of huge steel imports at Mombasa port for Uganda's World Bank-funded hydro power project is posing a huge challenge on how the cargo will be delivered to Uganda
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BBC box comes full circle
October 29 - Whilst HLPFI focuses on heavy and OOG cargoes, its worth remembering that a sizeable proportion of project cargo moves in standard containers.
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Sarjak launches into Europe and Russia
October 28 - Mumbai-based Sarjak Container Lines is set to start a new service via Riga, Klaipeda and St Petersburg, with the aim of entering the Russian import/export market for project and oversize cargoes.
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Nautical Institute addresses piracy, terrorism in November
October 27 - Increasing acts of terrorism and piracy and their impact on the safety of crews and vessels are to be debated at the Nautical Institute's Terrorism, Piracy and War Risks seminar in Southampton November 6-7.