All articles by HeavyLiftPFI – Page 164

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    Jaxport steels ahead

    2016-04-19T00:00:00Z

    April 19 - Stevedoring company Portus has handled the discharge of 42 oversize steel pieces that will form a northeast Florida manufacturing facility at Jaxport's Blount Island Marine Terminal's heavy lift berth.

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    Reactor rolls with Lift & Shift

    2016-04-18T00:00:00Z

    April 18 - Lift & Shift (LSPL) has transported and loaded out a 1,535-tonne Larsen & Toubro (L&T) reactor in Hazira, India, destined for a Sasol plant in the USA.

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    Nooteboom presents largest Manoovr

    2016-04-18T00:00:00Z

    April 18 - Nooteboom presented a ten-axle Manoovr semi low loader at the bauma exhibition with a detachable Multidolly and a maximum payload of 150 tonnes.

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    EMS turns on the TAP

    2016-04-18T00:00:00Z

    April 18 - EMS-Fehn-Group has begun delivering pipes for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project, which is scheduled for completion in 2017.

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    Hitachi debuts new crawler

    2016-04-18T00:00:00Z

    April 18 - Hitachi Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Crane (HSC) debuted its 350-tonne capacity SCX3500-3 crawler crane at the bauma show in Munich.

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    Rickmers considers ship management merger

    2016-04-18T00:00:00Z

    April 18 - Rickmers Holding and E.R. Capital Holding are reviewing a potential merger of their respective ship management units - Rickmers Maritime Services and E.R. Schiffahrt.

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    Take two for Chipolbrok

    2016-04-18T00:00:00Z

    April 18 - Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping (Chipolbrok) has taken delivery of the second sister ship in a series of four newbuild heavy lift general cargo vessels from Shanghai Shipyard.

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    ESTA awards celebrate innovation

    2016-04-18T00:00:00Z

    April 18 - Around 500 industry professionals attended the ESTA Awards of Excellence 2016, which was held on April 14 alongside the bauma exhibition at Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany.

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    Goldhofer launches ADDrive

    2016-04-18T00:00:00Z

    April 18 - Goldhofer unveiled its first heavy-duty drive unit - the ADDrive - at the bauma exhibition in Munich last week, which it claims combines the benefits of a towed module and self-propelled module.

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    GAC studies Northern Sea Route

    2016-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - GAC Russia has teamed up with the Far East Development Fund to address the challenges faced by international shipping companies transiting the Northern Sea Route (NSR), and to make this transport corridor more attractive to ship and cargo owner

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    Great Yarmouth secures Siemens-Galloper deal

    2016-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - Siemens has selected Peel Ports Great Yarmouth as the assembly and installation base for the offshore Galloper Wind Farm project.

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    Big year for Philadelphia breakbulk

    2016-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) reported its sixth consecutive year of cargo growth, with breakbulk and ro-ro cargoes increasing significantly.

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    Kässbohrer back 'home'

    2016-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - 23 years after it ceased operations in the city, Kässbohrer has announced that it is re-establishing its presence in its once home town of Ulm, Germany.

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    Strong start for Antwerp

    2016-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - Freight traffic at the Port of Antwerp got off to a flying start in 2016, the gateway having handled 53.26 million tonnes of cargoes during the first three months of the year, up 3.9 percent over 2015 levels.

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    PCN round up

    2016-04-14T00:00:00Z

    April 14 - Project Cargo Network (PCN) members from across the globe have been busy executing a wide range of project cargo shipments recently.

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    BNSF handles cable reels

    2016-04-14T00:00:00Z

    April 14 - The Houston Global Project Center (GPC) of BNSF Logistics (BNSFL) has managed the shipment of six cable reels with a total weight of 184,000 lbs (83.46 tonnes) from Europe to a private jetty at the Jensen Beach, FL Power Plant in the USA.

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    Another two years of misery, says Drewry

    2016-04-14T00:00:00Z

    April 14 - Drewry predicts that the multipurpose shipping market is not expected to recover until the end of 2017, when it is anticipated that there will be more bulk demand for Handysize tonnage and therefore more breakbulk cargoes for multipurpose vesse

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    McAndrews to chair AAPA Board

    2016-04-14T00:00:00Z

    April 14 - The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has elected Port of Pascagoula port director Mark McAndrews to serve as the association's chairman of the board for the 2016-17 activity year that begins in late October.

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    McDermott christens DLV 2000

    2016-04-14T00:00:00Z

    April 14 - McDermott International has christened its new derrick lay vessel at a ceremony held at the Keppel Singmarine Shipyard in Singapore.

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    Paine joins Straightpoint

    2016-04-13T00:00:00Z

    April 13 - Straightpoint has named Simon Paine as its new logistics supervisor.