All Asia articles – Page 274

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    Project cargo doubles at Rotterdam in first half

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - The first six months of 2010 saw project cargo tonnage at Rotterdam port double over the same period in 2009, say port managers, as the port witnessed some strategic improvements in heavy lift shipping at the port.

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    Ahlers reveals global scope of project cargo activity

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - Antwerp-based project cargo forwarder Ahlers Forwarding has revealed a range of heavy lift and project cargo activity that the company has undertaken in global markets; so far this year.

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    Hallin focuses on Australia

    2010-10-07T00:00:00Z

    October 7 - Hallin Marine Subsea International Ltd is focussing on Australia as it continues its growth plans.

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    AirBridgeCargo 747 becomes an aircraft carrier!

    2010-10-07T00:00:00Z

    October 7 - One of AirBridgeCargo Airlines' Boeing 747-400 freighters has acted as an 'aircraft carrier' for four aerobatic aircraft travelling from the Netherlands to China.

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    Independent forwarders go global

    2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - The 7th Annual Sino-International conference held at the Asia World Expo in Hong Kong offered the perfect venue for over 1400 participants to assess how, in an international market where borders have thinned and economics rule, local independe

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    GAC-USA inter-branch cooperation delivers heavy lift success

    2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Collaboration was the key when three GAC USA offices on the Gulf of Mexico worked together recently to deliver the goods onto a heavy lift ship.

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    GPLN adds three

    2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Casablanca-based, Fast Global Logistics - http://www.fglog.com/index.html - has been accepted into the Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) as the project forwarder group's first member in Morocco.

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    Steel cutting begins on new Fairstar ships

    2010-10-04T00:00:00Z

    October 4 - At Guangzhou Shipyard International, steel cutting has started on Fairstar Heavy Transport's 50,000 dwt semi-submersible heavy transport ship Forte.

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    Another set of heavy marine transport contracts for Dockwise

    2010-10-04T00:00:00Z

    October 4 - Dockwise Shipping has secured another nine awards for heavy marine transport with a total contract value of USD 33 million.

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    India's Express achieves three quality standards

    2010-10-04T00:00:00Z

    October 4 - India's Express Transport Pvt Ltd has been certified for three quality standards.

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    Cross trade business for Etamad

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - Bucharest-based Etamad Grup Sea & Land Transport is currently involved in the cross trade transport of 10 locomotives from Busan in Korea to Bandar Abass in Iran on behalf of ANC Iran.

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    Special berth arranged for GAC heavy lift

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - A recent heavy lift move at Dubai's Jebel Ali port required managers to arrange a special berth to allow the 1,000 tonne consignment to be loaded in a timely and efficient manner.

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    Maximus honours its charity pledge

    2010-09-30T00:00:00Z

    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.

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    New Job Opportunity at The Freight Company

    2010-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - Swiss owned freight and logistics company, The Freight Company Ltd, is looking for a managing director for Vietnam.

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    Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics appoints deputy CEO

    2010-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - Christopher J. Connor has been named deputy chief executive officer of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), effective October 1, 2010.

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    ALS ships its longest piece of cargo

    2010-09-29T00:00:00Z

    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.

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    Fairstar wins rig transport contract

    2010-09-28T00:00:00Z

    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

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    Dockwise delivers first of 15 modules for Koniambo project

    2010-09-28T00:00:00Z

    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.

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    Mexican celebrations take off in France thanks to Volga-Dnepr

    2010-09-27T00:00:00Z

    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

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    Martin Bencher extends US coverage with new office

    2010-09-27T00:00:00Z

    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.