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    South Pacific is music to NYK's ears

    2013-12-20T00:00:00Z

    December 20 - NYK will launch a new South Pacific Link (SPL) service between the Far East and the South Pacific islands from January, 2014.

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    GeoSea winds up offshore contracts

    2013-12-20T00:00:00Z

    December 20 - DEME's marine engineering specialist, GeoSea, has been awarded major offshore wind energy contracts for the Kentish Flats Extension wind farm in the UK and Gode Wind offshore farms in Germany.

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    DYT strengthens Australian service

    2013-12-20T00:00:00Z

    December 20 - Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, DYT Yacht Transport (DYT) has appointed Sevenstar Yacht Transport Australia as its new agents servicing the Australian market.

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    All time high for shipping confidence, says Moore Stephens

    2013-12-20T00:00:00Z

    December 20 - According to the latest shipping confidence survey from Moore Stephens, overall confidence levels in the shipping industry rose to their highest level for more than three years over the three-month period to November, 2013.

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    ABS responds to cyber attacks on control systems

    2013-12-20T00:00:00Z

    December 20 - ABS Group is responding to the threat of targeted attacks and cyber assaults on control systems by offering security assessments specifically for newbuilds, operating assets and retiring assets, performed by certified security practitioners

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    PIP package boosts B747-8 efficiency

    2013-12-20T00:00:00Z

    December 20 - Boeing has delivered its first B747-8 aircraft with performance-improved GEnx-2B engines. The aircraft was delivered in a freighter configuration to Cathay Pacific Airways.

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    The Friday Flyer - December 20th 2013

    2013-12-20T00:00:00Z

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

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    Intertransport puts pen to paper

    2013-12-19T00:00:00Z

    December 19 - Intertransport Hohnholz has transported part of a paper factory from Moss, Norway and Muenster, Germany to Wuhu in the Anhui Province of China.

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    No conclusions at FMC summit

    2013-12-19T00:00:00Z

    December 19 - Maritime regulators from the United States, China and the European Commission met on December 17, 2013 to discuss the changing state of the global maritime business, in particular the development of container line alliances.

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    Mammoet completes Peabody desert haul

    2013-12-19T00:00:00Z

    December 19 - Netherlands headquartered Mammoet recently executed a specialised project transport in the USA, delivering a 3,500-tonne dragline across 35.4 km (22 miles) of New Mexican desert to the El Segundo mine, on behalf of Peabody Energy.

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    MFC breaks internal delivery record

    2013-12-19T00:00:00Z

    December 19 - Chennai, India based MFC Transport has delivered a 53-tonne calandria from the Walchandnagar manufacturing facility in the state of Maharashtra to a nuclear power plant in Kakrapar, India.

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    Buoy oh buoy, Blue Water

    2013-12-19T00:00:00Z

    December 19 - The Brazilian division of Blue Water Shipping has completed the discharge, heavy lift and storage of two 860-tonne mooring buoys on behalf of the Netherlands headquartered Bluewater Energy Services BV.

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    Geodis appoints Metzger

    2013-12-19T00:00:00Z

    December 19 - Andrea Metzger has been appointed managing director of Geodis Logistics Northern Europe, a separate entity grouping the logistics activities of Geodis in Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands.

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    Star turn for RollDock

    2013-12-18T00:00:00Z

    December 18 - Dutch shipping line, RollDock BV, has taken delivery of RollDock Star - the latest of four prototype newbuildings - from Flensburger-Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG).

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    Hansa doubles up on Northern Sea Route

    2013-12-18T00:00:00Z

    December 18 - Hansa Heavy Lift's HHL Lagos and HHL Hong Kong have delivered infrastructure cargo and large tugs from the Russian Baltic to the Far East using the Northern Sea Route before its winter closure this month.

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    Giant imports take the Direct route to India

    2013-12-18T00:00:00Z

    December 18 - India based freight forwarder, Direct Logistics, has handled the import of a shipment, with a total weight of 1,516 tonnes, from Rotterdam, the Netherlands to Kandla, India for the Lalitpur Super Thermal Power Project.

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    Eisele and Chaudhary choose Terex

    2013-12-18T00:00:00Z

    December 18 - Maintal, Germany based crane service provider, Eisele AG, has taken delivery of two Terex AC 140 Compact and one Challenger 3180 all terrain cranes in Zweibrucken.

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    Rickmers-Linie carries coldboxes

    2013-12-18T00:00:00Z

    December 18 - Rickmers-Linie and KOG Transport have worked together to transport two 359-tonne coldboxes from Bremen, Germany to Jubail in Saudi Arabia.

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    V. Alexander becomes Alexander

    2013-12-18T00:00:00Z

    December 18 - V. Alexander International Logistics is changing its company name to Alexander Global Logistics, effective January 1, 2014.

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    Mississippi freight flows again

    2013-12-18T00:00:00Z

    December 18 - According to reports in the international media, the Mississippi River has reopened to commercial barge traffic near the Port of St Louis after a 36-hour closure; a number of barges were grounded last weekend due to ongoing shallow water lev