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    Northern UK ports join forces

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - PD Ports has signed an agreement with other major ports across the north of the UK, forming a collaboration to ensure its unified voice is heard by government to improve freight and transport links across the region.

  • Container weighing regulation takes effect
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    Container weighing regulation takes effect

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    A new regulation requiring the gross mass of a container to be verified before it is loaded onto a ship enters into force today, July 1.

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    Volga-Dnepr cuts container loading time

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines has transported two power generators to Port Harcourt, Nigeria, using its new wing-lift system, which aims to reduce the loading time for large containers to less than 30 minutes.

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    Ti report predicts 'further consolidation'

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - Transport Intelligence's (Ti) new Global Freight Forwarding 2016 report suggests that while the market is estimated to have contracted by 1.6 percent in 2015, forwarders' revenues were not hit as hard as you might think.

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    DSAm completes Sea Installer upgrade

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm) has concluded major modification works, including the extension of the main boom, on A2SEA's offshore wind farm installation vessel Sea Installer.

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    Cuxhaven expands capacity

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - Construction of a new ro-ro berth has begun at the Port of Cuxhaven in Germany.

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    Mallory Alexander names Onofrio

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - Claudio Onofrio has been appointed vice president of global business development for Mallory Alexander International Logistics.

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    ALE busy at Spanish ports

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - ALE has conducted the weighing and load-out of four modules, weighing in between 40 and 780 tonnes, at the Port of Tarragona, Spain.

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    Cargolux adds Ashgabat

    2016-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - Cargolux Airlines has added a weekly service to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

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    Sparber turns the heat up

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Sparber Group has coordinated the delivery of a 3,000 cu m consignment of heat exchangers from Spain's Bilbao Port to Ashdod in Israel.

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    GALA gets TAP running

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - German Albanian Logistics Agency (GALA) has begun discharging equipment for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project at the Port of Durres in Albania.

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    Enerpac designs nuclear cask transporter

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Holtec International has awarded a contract to Enerpac, which will see the company design, fabricate and commission a 170-tonne capacity vertical cask transporter for use in the nuclear industry.

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    Cargolux ceo steps down

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Cargolux president and ceo, Dirk Reich, has decided to step down from the company at the end of July due to “personal reasons beyond the air cargo business”.

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    Volga-Dnepr rushes to Bulgaria

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines has flown a 25-tonne cable spool from Maastricht, the Netherlands to Varna in Bulgaria, to replace failed equipment on the drilling vessel, Noble Globetrotter II.

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    Raiss up at Ritchie Bros

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Ritchie Bros has appointed Sarah Raiss as a director on its board, with effect from July 1.

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    FLS stuffs into boxes

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Fleet Line Shipping (FLS) has coordinated the delivery of a 2,500 cu m consignment of gas turbine generators from the UAE to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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    Agility creates Super JV

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Agility has formed a joint venture with South Africa based supply chain management and transportation specialist, Super Group.

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    AAL delivers huge crane consignment

    2016-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - AAL has completed the transport of the first ten of 20 automated stacking cranes (ASC) in several shipments from Shanghai to Melbourne, for final delivery to Victoria International Container Terminal.

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    MPV sector improvement 'some way off'

    2016-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - According to the latest Multipurpose Shipping Market Review and Forecaster report published by Drewry, the demand outlook for the multipurpose fleet has not improved since the first quarter of 2016.

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    Multraship's Damen duo named

    2016-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - Two Damen ASD 3213 tugs for towage and salvage specialist Multraship have been named Multratug 29 and Multratug 30 at a ceremony in Terneuzen, the Netherlands.