All articles by HeavyLiftPFI – Page 270

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    Agility posts profits

    2015-03-30T00:00:00Z

    March 30 - Kuwait headquartered logistics services provider Agility posted a net profit of KD50.84 million (USD169.19 million) for its full financial year 2014 - a 10 percent year-on-year improvement over 2013.

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    Sommer lifts tank with Liebherr

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - Kranverleih Sommer has used its Liebherr LTM 1300-6.2 mobile crane to lift and position a 50-tonne tank at the Airbus plant in Bremen, Germany.

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    When a ship's not a ship it's a problem

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - Rotterdam-based law firm AKD says the lack of an unambiguous term to describe a 'ship' in several jurisdictions represents a potential threat to asset security for financiers, particularly in the offshore and renewable energy sectors.

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    Reference guide to Iranian sanctions published

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - The North P&I club has produced a quick reference guide which aims to simplify EU and US sanctions legislation governing what can and cannot be shipped in and out of Iran.

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    Gefco names Kesler

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - Gefco has appointed Emmanuel Kesler as director of finance and performance at its French subsidiary, Gefco France.

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    Hapag Lloyd swaps finance chiefs

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - Effective April 1, Peter Ganz is to relinquish his post as company cfo of the merged Hapag-Lloyd/CSAV operation (trading as Hapag Lloyd).

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    Corpus Christi calls on Collin

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - Port Corpus Christi has appointed Rosie Collin as its director of community relations.

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    CEA Surelift offers modular spreader beams

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - April will see the launch of a new provider of modular spreader beams.

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    BBC goes fishing

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - BBC Chartering's vessel BBC Congo has shipped six fishing trawlers from Constanta, Italy to Maputo in Mozambique for the country's fishing industry.

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    NBIS develops new escort/pilot agreement

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - Robert Moore, NBIS chief legal officer, says it is imperative that specialised haulage companies have an agreement with the pilot/escort outlining the roles, responsibilities and assumption of risks in escorting the oversize/overweight load.

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    The Friday Flyer - March 27th 2015

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    This week's round up of news from the world of heavy lift and project forwarding.

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    Geodis revenue up 1 percent

    2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

    March 27 - Geodis, which recently rebranded, achieved a 1 percent year-on-year increase in revenue in 2014 at EUR6.871 billion (USD7.43 billion).

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    Tuscor Lloyds reels in the loads

    2015-03-26T00:00:00Z

    March 26 - Tuscor Lloyds has coordinated the shipment of four steel reels, each weighing over 30 tonnes, from Rio Grande, Brazil to Aberdeen in the UK.

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    SAL finalises Wikinger pile project

    2015-03-26T00:00:00Z

    March 26 - SAL Heavy Lift has completed the second phase of the Wikinger pile testing campaign with its heavy lift vessel Lone.

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    Oil prices cast shadow over project shipping

    2015-03-26T00:00:00Z

    March 26 - Global dry cargo demand growth, forecast at 5 percent per annum from 2016 to 2019, will be offset by falling project cargo volumes over the next twelve to eighteen months, according to the latest edition of the Multipurpose Shipping Market Revi

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    Strele in big Baltic crane delivery

    2015-03-26T00:00:00Z

    March 26 - Lithuania's Strele Logistics has taken delivery of a 500-tonne capacity truck-mounted telescopic crane from Liebherr, which it claims is the largest model in the Baltics.

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    Ritchie completes record auction

    2015-03-26T00:00:00Z

    March 26 - Ritchie Bros. had sold more than USD54 million of equipment for Energy Transportation in Casper, Wyoming.

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    First high-speed trains arrive in UK

    2015-03-26T00:00:00Z

    March 26 - The first five of 110 high-speed railcar units have been delivered to the UK port of Southampton from Kasado, Japan onboard Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics' ro-ro vessel Tamerlane.

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    LOC Group names two

    2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

    March 25 - Marine engineering consultancy, LOC Group (London Offshore Consultants), has named John Quarrington as group marine warranty surveying manager, based in London, and Mark McGurran as Asia regional hull & machinery co-ordinator, based in Singapor

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    Freja on the move in Norway

    2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

    March 25 - Following a 15 percent growth in business in Norway last year, Freja Transport & Logistics is planning to move its head office from Fjellbo, north of Oslo, to a logistics centre adjacent to the E6 highway in Langhus.