All articles by HeavyLiftPFI – Page 131

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    Alliance and acquisition for Ritchie Bros

    2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

    August 30 - Ritchie Bros has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, and reached an agreement to acquire online marketplace IronPlanet.

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    Jurassic move for Jan de Rijk

    2016-08-26T00:00:00Z

    August 26 - Jan de Rijk Logistics has transported a 66-million-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to the city of Leiden in the Netherlands.

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    Topkran ups crawler fleet

    2016-08-26T00:00:00Z

    August 26 - Moscow based crane hire company Topkran has taken delivery of its second 350-tonne capacity LR 1350/1 crawler crane.

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    DHL inks racing car contract

    2016-08-26T00:00:00Z

    August 26 - A new partnership agreement has been signed by DHL and the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), which will see the logistics provider organise the shipment of the teams' motor sport materials and equipment to the overseas events.

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    Rickmers cancels ship management merger

    2016-08-26T00:00:00Z

    August 26 - Rickmers Holding and E.R. Capital Holding have jointly decided not to pursue the merger of their ship management activities for the time being.

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    Global fleet growth expected

    2016-08-25T00:00:00Z

    August 25 - The heavy lift and multipurpose (HL/MPV) shipping sector is under extreme pressure. With desperately low commodity prices laying waste to new capital projects, and increasing competition from other shipping modes for cargoes, the HL/MPV sector

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    Dolphins stadium gets a lift

    2016-08-25T00:00:00Z

    August 25 - Maxim Crane Works is employing a fleet of Manitowoc crawler cranes as part of the construction of the new Miami Dolphins football stadium in the USA.

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    Malaysian contract win for Mammoet

    2016-08-25T00:00:00Z

    August 25 - Mammoet has been awarded the heavy lift contract for a petrochemical complex expansion project in Johore, Malaysia by a Korean engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor.

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    Hansa makes Brazilian FPSO move

    2016-08-25T00:00:00Z

    August 25 - Hansa Heavy Lift has shipped five pipe racks and three oversize modules, weighing a total of 1,871.51 tonnes, for a new floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit off the coast of Brazil.

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    Modules move with Blue Water

    2016-08-25T00:00:00Z

    August 25 - The special project department of Blue Water Shipping has been involved in the transport of two large accommodation modules, weighing up to 650 tonnes.

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    Hydra-Slide adds UK distributor

    2016-08-25T00:00:00Z

    August 25 - Rapid Response Solutions (RRS) has become the first distributor of Hydra-Slide's hydraulically powered skidding systems and other related products in the UK and Ireland.

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    Huisman wins heavy lift orders

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - Huisman has secured new crane contracts with a total value of around EUR300 million (USD338 million) from various contractors, including two 900-tonne capacity heavy lift ship cranes for BigLift Shipping.

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    NORD/LB deal reduces shipping exposure

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - NORD/LB (Norddeutsche Landesbank) and KKR Credit have reached an agreement by which, subject to completion of certain conditions precedents, KKR Credit, together with a sovereign wealth fund, will acquire a portfolio of performing and non-perf

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    Mobile crane lifts turbine part

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - Germany based crane rental company Sommer Kranverleih has used a 400-tonne capacity Grove GMK6400 mobile crane to replace a 1-tonne wind turbine generator at an onshore wind farm site near Bremen.

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    Stolberg trial nears completion?

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - Some of the German media reported that yesterday was a reasonable day in court for Niels Stolberg, the ex-head of the now defunct Beluga Group, when the presiding judges in Bremen's regional court ruled that one of three indictments against hi

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    CLA inks maintenance deal

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - UK all-cargo airline CargoLogicAir (CLA) has signed an agreement with Volga-Dnepr Gulf to perform C-check maintenance on its Boeing 747-400 freighter.

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    Fednav claims ballast water first

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbour has welcomed Fednav's oceangoing laker, Federal Caribou, which is one of seven new ships equipped with a ballast water treatment system.

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    Crane arrives at MGT

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - Matadi Gateway Terminal (MGT) - the new container and general cargo terminal on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - has received the first of two new mobile harbour cranes from Terex Port Solutions.

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    Maiden project for Allseas ship

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - Allseas' single lift installation, decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has executed its first heavy lift project, with the removal of the 13,500-tonne Yme mobile offshore production unit in the North Sea.

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    ALE navigates Atyrau streets

    2016-08-24T00:00:00Z

    August 24 - ALE has completed the transport of the heaviest out-of-gauge components for the Atyrau refinery in Kazakhstan.