Portugal-headquartered Laso Transportes has established its fourth abnormal loads office in Spain.
The new Barcelona office complements the company’s presence in Badajoz, Madrid and Valencia.
In 2009, Laso Transportes started to expand its presence beyond Portugal with the opening of its first branch in Spain. Since then it has established branches in Germany, Italy, Morocco, Mozambique and the Netherlands.
Friday & Co Shipbrokers has brokered a major chartering deal between heavy lift shipping specialist Boskalis and a Chinese charterer, to transport the car carrier Floor (formerly Fremantle Highway) from the Netherlands to China for extensive repairs.
Dutch transport engineering specialist Mammoet has performed the decommissioning load-ins of all three gravity-based topsides that were installed at the Brent field in the North Sea. Brent Charlie was the third, last and heaviest of the jobs.
Lifting equipment manufacturer Tadano has continued to diversify its portfolio with the acquisition of IHI Transport Machinery’s transportation systems unit.
Charter brokerage Chapman Freeborn has appointed Bernardo Nunes as chief operating officer.
Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) reported strong results in Q3 2024, but year-to-date revenue and margins have tightened.
Bjørnar Bukholm has rejoined ro-ro shipping group Wallenius Wilhelmsen as chief financial officer (cfo) and executive vice president (evp).
