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    Brazilian ship agent wins FONASBA award

    2015-08-21T00:00:00Z

    August 21 - Renan Quieroz of Wilson Sons Ltda, Brazil is the recipient of the Federation of National Ship Brokers and Agents (FONASBA) Young Ship Agent or Broker Award 2015.

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    Aaras handles three heavy loads

    2015-08-21T00:00:00Z

    August 21 - Aaras Shipping Agencies has handled three project cargo vessels carrying almost 17,000 tonnes of cargo, with many being heavy or oversized.

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    Silk Way West gets third 747-8 freighter

    2015-08-21T00:00:00Z

    August 21 - Silk Way West has taken delivery of the third from an order of five Boeing 747-8 freighters.

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    WWPC goes Hard Rock in 2016

    2015-08-21T00:00:00Z

    August 21 - The Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) network announced that its 16th membership conference will be held at the Hard Rock Hotel in Panama.

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    HHL transports shiploader from China to USA

    2015-08-20T00:00:00Z

    August 19 - Hansa Heavy Lift (HHL) successfully carried a shiploader weighing over 560 tonnes from Nantong, China to Portland, USA, for Sandvik Mining and Construction.

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    Building begins on Combilift's new base

    2015-08-20T00:00:00Z

    August 20 - This month, specialist straddle carrier and forklift manufacturer Combilift inaugurated the construction of its 46,000 sq m manufacturing facility in Monaghan, Ireland.

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    ACS flies in first relief to Yemen

    2015-08-20T00:00:00Z

    August 20 - Air Charter Service (ACS) has arranged the first civilian cargo flight into Aden, the temporary Yemeni capital, since the troubles began in the country almost five months ago.

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    Inchcape picks up Paragon project

    2015-08-19T00:00:00Z

    August 19 - Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has scooped the first new commercial drilling project to be awarded in Tanzania in recent years. ISS was appointed by Paragon Offshore in Houston to work on a new drilling campaign off the Songo Songo Islands.

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    GAC benefits from Jordan energy upgrade

    2015-08-19T00:00:00Z

    August 19 - Jordan's contract with Shell for the import of nearly 17 million cu m of gas per day is delivering brisk business for GAC, the global shipping and logistics provider.

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    Heat exchanger travels from Lithuania to Belarus

    2015-08-19T00:00:00Z

    August 19 - Nurminen Logistics, member of the Cargo Equipments Experts (CEE) network for Finland, transported a 100 tonne heat exchanger from Klaipeda Port in Lithuania to Grodno in Belarus earlier this month.

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    Integrated Logistics powers ahead

    2015-08-19T00:00:00Z

    August 19 - In July, Integrated Logistics Company safely delivered a 243-tonne transformer and two shunt reactors to the new Sabah Al Ahmad 1Z Substation - a distance of 60km - for the Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity & Water (MEW).

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    UECC's vessel a cut above

    2015-08-19T00:00:00Z

    August 19 - The steel cutting ceremony for United European Car Carriers' (UECC) first dual fuel LNG pure truck and car carriers (PCTCs) was held on 6 August at the NACKS shipyard in Nantong, China.

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    Kalitta is first with CHAMP in USA

    2015-08-18T00:00:00Z

    August 18 - The Michigan-based Kalitta Air will use CHAMP's next generation Weight & Balance application to manage load planning across its fleet of 14 Boeing 747 freighters and claims to be the first in the US to implement CHAMP's solution.

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    Tianjin restricts certain ships

    2015-08-18T00:00:00Z

    August 18 - Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) Tianjin is advising that most tanker operations at the port of Tianjin have been put on hold owing to restrictions issued by the Tianjin Municipal Transport Commission following the explosion last week.

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    COSCO to ship Shell Offshore's Appomattox platform

    2015-08-18T00:00:00Z

    August 18 - On July 6, 2015 Shell Offshore Inc. awarded the transportation contract of its semi-submersible offshore platform to COSCO Shipping Company Limited (COSCOL).

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    MacGregor delivers for Grimaldi

    2015-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - The Chinese shipbuilding group Yangfan has contracted MacGregor, part of Cargotec, to supply ro-ro access equipment packages to five car carriers being built for Grimaldi.

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    Combilift delivers productivity gains

    2015-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - Imorex Shipping Services reports that its recently acquired Combilift Straddle Carrier (Combi-SC) has made container handling operations at its deport near Felixstowe, UK, much quicker and safer.

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    Clipper gets new chair in Denmark

    2015-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - Peter Appel has replaced Frank G Jensen as chairman of the board for Clipper Group AS, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Clipper Group Ltd.

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    Konecranes in fraud case

    2015-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - Konecranes has confirmed that one its foreign subsidiaries has become the victim of fraud.

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    General cargo down in Hamburg

    2015-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August 17 - At 70.8 million tonnes, the port of Hamburg's first half seaborne cargo throughput was just below the previous year's.