All Asia articles – Page 245

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    Multitrade handles oil rig equipment

    2011-12-14T00:00:00Z

    December 14 - Multitrade Spain, a member of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) network, has arranged the transportation of a levelling tool used in the oil industry.

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    Fairstar bridges financial gap

    2011-12-14T00:00:00Z

    December 14 - Fairstar Heavy Transport, the Oslo-listed heavy lift shipping specialist, has signed a USD30 million bridging loan facility for its newbuilding, Forte, with Bank of China.

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    Toll Group announces retirement date for head of strategy and M & A

    2011-12-14T00:00:00Z

    December 14 - Toll Group has announced the impending retirement of long-time head of strategy, M & A, Stephen Stanley, effective 30 June 2012.

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    BBC Chartering shipment is out of this world

    2011-12-13T00:00:00Z

    December 13 - Leading German heavy lift shipping line, BBC Chartering won a contract to transport radio telescope antennas for what is currently the largest cosmic project on earth, the ALMA observatory in the Chilean Andes.

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    Oil and gas fuel Amytrans success in equipment shipment

    2011-12-13T00:00:00Z

    December 13 - Full service freight forwarder and ship broker Amytrans Corp in Vietnam, a member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) network, has arranged for heavy and outsized oil and gas equipment to be moved by chartered ocean vessel from Busan,

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    Long distance successes for Ahlers

    2011-12-13T00:00:00Z

    December 13 - Global offices of worldwide project cargo forwarder Ahlers have earned their Air Miles after organising two project movements that clocked up more than 15,000 km in distance.

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    Breakbulk events head for Shanghai

    2011-12-12T00:00:00Z

    December 12 - The inaugural Breakbulk China Transportation Conference & Exhibition will be held February 28 - March 1, 2012, at the Intex Shanghai & Sheraton Shanghai Hongqiao, Shanghai, China.

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    Panalpina shifts power of decision closer to customer base

    2011-12-12T00:00:00Z

    December 12 - The Panalpina Group is putting in place three regional CEOs for Europe/Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, tasked with implementing the recently defined Corporate Strategy 2014.

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    Early bird registration deadline looms for training course

    2011-12-09T00:00:00Z

    December 9 - Early bird registrations close on January 13, 2012 for the Certificate of Achievement in Project Cargo Management two-day training course to be held in Shanghai during Breakbulk China.

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    Air Partner cautious over prospects for current year

    2011-12-09T00:00:00Z

    December 9 - At air charter broker, Air Partner, the board remains cautious in its assessment of prospects for the current year.

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    Brace of factory relocations for Van der Vlist a continent apart

    2011-12-08T00:00:00Z

    December 8 - European abnormal and heavy haulage provider Van der Vlist has undertaken two factory relocation movements continents apart but using the same freight forwarding skills.

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    Trans Himalayan delivers for Nepal hydro power project

    2011-12-07T00:00:00Z

    December 7 - The photos contained in this report give a clear demonstration of the difficulties which faced Trans Himalayan Express, the Nepalese member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) network, during the recent delivery of two transformer unit

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    African trade ministers highlight lack of infrastructure investment

    2011-12-07T00:00:00Z

    December 7 - A meeting of trade ministers from African Union (AU) members held in Ghana has been told of the importance of spending more time and investment in major and strategic infrastructure-oriented agreements that boost long-term prospects for the c

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    Port of Hamburg opens office in Mumbai to strengthen ties

    2011-12-06T00:00:00Z

    December 6 - Project cargo and heavy lift traffic between one of the BRIC quartet of expanding economies and Europe's main manufacturing countries have been boosted by the opening of a new representative office by the port of Hamburg in Mumbai At the same

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    Sea Installer on track for A2SEA

    2011-12-06T00:00:00Z

    December 6 - The head of newbuilding at Danish off-shore wind farm installer A2SEA has returned from a visit to the Chinese shipyard constructing the 11-year old company's latest offshore wind turbine installation jack-up vessel, the Sea Installer.

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    UAE superyacht takes to the waves, thanks to TTS

    2011-12-05T00:00:00Z

    December 5 - The float-off of the first yacht built to meet the strict requirements of the new UAE Large Yacht Code created for private vessels has been handled by TTS, the Dubai-based heavy handling, transportation and installation freight forwarder.

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    Heavy lift plays its part as dnata handles record cargo volumes at DWC

    2011-12-05T00:00:00Z

    December 5 - dnata's cargo operations at its terminal at Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) reached record volumes, helped by heavy lift movements in October.

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    Initial PCN annual summit mixes business with pleasure

    2011-12-05T00:00:00Z

    December 5 - The inaugural two-day annual summit of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) has been held in London, England and organisers hailled it a "successful and enjoyable event".

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    Seaports of Niedersachsen sees strong interest at Amsterdam event

    2011-12-02T00:00:00Z

    December 2 - Port marketing company, Seaports of Niedersachsen, says it registered strong interest in port capacity and logistics solutions for the offshore wind energy industry at this week's international wind energy trade fair, EWEA offshore in Amsterd

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    Dockwise to manage and market Offshore Oil Engineering newbuild

    2011-12-01T00:00:00Z

    December 1 - Dockwise Ltd has reached agreement with Offshore Oil Engineering Co Ltd (COOEC) to act as manager of the latter's new build, so-called 'type 1 marine transportation vessel' for all third party projects.