All articles by HeavyLiftPFI – Page 519

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    Five in line for Sietas Group companies

    2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

    May 22 - Five concrete offers have been received for the companies of the Hamburg-based Sietas Group.

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    Jumbo transports Gorgon caissons

    2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

    May 22 - Jumbo Jubilee has transported and discharged 14 of the 25 Material Offloading Facility (MOF) caissons for the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project on Barrow Island, Australia.

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    Crowley Maritime disposes of heavy lift tug

    2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

    May 21 - Seattle, Washington-based Crowley Maritime has sold its 33.5 m, 40-year old twin-screw Seneca Class tug Sioux to Island Tug & Barge, also of Seattle. Sioux is to be renamed Island Venture by its new owner and is presently being painted in the new

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    KPIs show that container industry needs to improve

    2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

    May 21 - Project cargo consigned to ocean containers suffers from delays and service failures despite industry-wide vessel schedule reliability improvements to 72.3 percent in the first quarter of 2012.

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    DSV Solutions Management Change

    2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

    May 21 - Brian Ejsing is the new managing director of DSV Solutions.

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    PD Ports staff to pound the Tarmac in a good cause

    2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

    May 21 - Big-hearted employees from the Middlesbrough, UK-based PD Ports will be lacing up their running shoes and taking part in the 21 km Great North Run for Butterwick Hospice this year.

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    Noatum Terminal Polivalente Santander handles 100 tonne chimney

    2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

    May 21 - A steel chimney bound for a thermal power station in Morocco consisting of three pieces of 10 - 15 m in length and nearly 5 m in diameter, has been loaded by stevedore operator Noatum Terminal Polivalente Santander as the company seeks to boost i

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    New port director at Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor

    2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Anthony Kuk has joined the Ports of Indiana as port director for the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor located in Portage, USA.

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    Oil rig transportation bonanza for Fairmount Marine

    2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Three trans-ocean towage operations by marine contractor Fairmount Marine demonstrate the global reach of the Rotterdam-based heavy lift transportation operator's five modern long distance 250-tonne bollard pull super tugs.

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    Air Partner names CIS sales manager

    2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Air Partner has appointed Alexandra Nepochataya as its new Sales Manager for CIS, with immediate effect.

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    Cargolux adds Chongqing

    2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Cargolux has launched twice weekly scheduled flights to Chongqing, China.

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    Infrastructure performance helps Q1 for Agility

    2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Global forwarder Agility has revealed Q1 2012 results that show the logistics provider had a net profit of USD 25 million in the quarter.

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    Port Corpus Christi names director of Engineering Services

    2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Port Corpus Christi has promoted David Krams to director of Engineering Services under the supervision of the deputy port director of Engineering, Finance and Administration.

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    Business as usual, says Fairstar

    2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Facing a hostile and unwelcome takeover by heavy lift giant Dockwise, business at Fairstar might seem anything but usual.

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    LS International in multimodal Brazilian shipment for paper industry

    2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Bremen-based project cargo forwarder LS International Cargo was contracted to move a dryer for the paper industry ex-Santos, Brazil to Krapkowice, Poland in a voyage of around five weeks.

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    New regional director for Braemar

    2012-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Braemar Technical Services (Incorporating The Salvage Association) has appointed Graeme Temple to the role of regional director for its Far East region, with responsibility for strengthening the company's surveyor network in this important region

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    WWPC names Solot as exclusive member in Peru

    2012-05-16T00:00:00Z

    May 16 - Solot Logistics' Peruvian operation has been appointed as the Worldwide Project Consortium's (WWPC) exclusive member in Peru.

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    Fairstar rejects Dockwise offer of financial support as a 'poison pill'

    2012-05-16T00:00:00Z

    May 16 - Fairstar Heavy Transport has rejected the unsolicited financial proposal received from Dockwise on Monday evening as being "of no interest to Fairstar", adding that whilst "Dockwise has attempted to characterise the offer of USD 30 million in 'su

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    AV Dawson's quay to success

    2012-05-16T00:00:00Z

    May 16 - Work is due to start on the second phase of the GBP10 million (USD15.9 million) development of AV Dawson's 60 acre site in Middlesbrough, UK, with the creation of a new deepwater quay.

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    Agility name Jaeger as MD Area West, in Europe

    2012-05-16T00:00:00Z

    May 16 - Agility has appointed Patrick Jaeger as managing director of Area West in Europe, responsible for defining growth strategies and identifying development opportunities in Switzerland and France.