Heavy haulage & trailers news – Page 159
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SAL expands in Australasia
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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Co-hosted conferences for high and heavy operators
July 31 - Two key co-hosted freight industry conferences with great relevance to high and heavy project operations are to be held at the World Trade Centre, Barcelona at the end of October.
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Ainscough promotion for Kesterton
July 31 - UK crane hire company, Ainscough Crane Hire intends to combine its national sales effort under the leadership of George Kesterton, previously sales director with responsibility for the Northern Region.
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Platform installed on Jumbo Javelin to deliver TPs
July 30 - One of Jumbo Offshore's heavy lift and installation ships, Jumbo Javelin, is preparing to deliver installation services for offshore wind farms, thanks to the installation of a specialised ship-based, self-stabilising platform.
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SkyHook heavy lift vehicle on track
July 29 - The Boeing Company and SkyHook International has confirmed that the design of the SkyHook Heavy Lift Vehicle has reached the configuration freeze milestone, meaning the aircraft's overall performance and layout have been established.
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Jumping on the bandwagon
July 28 - There is an old saying that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
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SAL commissions two heavy lift vessels
July 27 - SAL - Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land, has placed an Euros 120 million order with the Sietas shipyard for the construction of two heavy lift vessels to be built in the Hamburg Neuenfelde shipyard.
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Silvasti Logistics sees double
July 27 - Silvasti Logistics, the Finnish abnormal load transport company, which is a member of the CEE global network of equipment owners, has moved eight evaporators, weighing from 150 to 200 tonnes, by barge from Varkaus in Finland to V
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Maximus inks Etihad Airways deal
July 27 - Abu Dhabi-based heavy lift and project cargo airline Maximus Air Cargo has started operating seven cargo flights a week for Etihad Airways between the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent and East Africa.
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Trio of jobs shows ALE Heavylift's capabilities
July 24 - Abnormal Load Engineering (ALE) has demonstrated its capabilities in regards to transportation, handling and installation of heavy, indivisible items with three separate projects across a number of industrial sectors.
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Rolf Riedl GmbH named top supplier by AREVA
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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Russia to resume production of world's largest airplane
July 23 - Reports in the Russian media suggest that production of the Antonov An-124, the largest commercial aircraft to be mass-produced, could be about to recommence.
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Ainscough Crane Hire promotes from within
July 21 - Ainscough Crane Hire, one of the UK's largest crane hire operators has announced recent changes within its senior team.
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Traffic falls at Antwerp
July 20 - The port of Antwerp has said that one of the reasons for the significant fall in freight volumes in the first six months of 2009 was the fact that tonnages in 2008 were inflated partially by the industrial dispute in Le Havre which saw cargo tra
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Volga-Dnepr reveals first half tonnage results
July 19 - Volga-Dnepr Group, the Russian scheduled and charter cargo airline has reported a five percent fall in tonnage to 835,000 ton/kilometres during the first six months of this year.
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Jack-Up Barge installs first German offshore wind turbine
July 16 - Jack-Up Barge BV, a leading supplier of jack-up services for the oil and gas, energy and wind turbines, as well as heavy civil construction markets, has recently taken delivery of two newbuild jack-up barges - JB-114 and JB-115 from Indonesia.
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Crowley launches launches latest heavy lift deck barge
July 16 - Crowley Maritime Corp has launched its newest heavy lift deck barge, the 455-6, from the Gunderson Marine shipyard in Portland. (See news item posted on the HLPFI website in May - http://www.heavyliftpfi.com/content/SearchItem.aspx?id=403
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Nordana adds Sagunto to Intramed service
July 15 - Nordana has added port calls at Sagunto to the itinerary of its iMED service.
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Jumbo Shipping and Volgo-Baltic Logistic
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