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Chapman Freeborn reacts to Deepwater Horizon spill
May 20 - Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has coordinated a series of aircraft charters to New Orleans, USA, to help tackle the leak from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
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SC&RA Rigging Job of the Year Awards
May 20 - The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) has announced the winners of its 2010 Rigging Job of the Year Awards.
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Ramirent acquires Havator's access platform business
May 20 - Ramirent has acquired Havator Group's access platform operation and has signed a five-year rental and cooperation agreement with Havator in Finland, Sweden and Norway.
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Trying times for shipping, but not terminal
May 19 - These might be trying times for heavy lift shipping lines, but they are not necessarily terminal. That's the view of Fred Bedford, a member of the board of Jumbo Shipping, speaking at the Breakbulk Europe event. Ian Matheson reports from Antwerp.
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CLN's meeting logs on to business solutions
May 19 - Combined Logistics Networks (CLN) members will have the opportunity to learn more about how to maximise new technologies within their marketing and branding strategies during their annual meeting in Bangkok from May 25-30, 2010.
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Fluor highlights South American potential
May 19 - Fluor Chile logistics manager, Alex Azparrent kicked off the 5th Breakbulk Europe event on an optimistic note and said that it's an increasingly buoyant market in South America especially for mining and mineral exploitation. Ian Matheson reports
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Agility refocuses to combat profit decline
May 19 - According to chairman Tarek Sultan, Agility will increasingly focus on its Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) division in the face of declining profitability over the course of the next four quarters.
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Antwerp scores tank hat-trick
May 18 - Brabo, the Port of Antwerp's heavy lift floating crane, was put to use handling three gas bullet tanks weighing 382 tonnes each on behalf of freight forwarder, MaxTrans.
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New SC&RA benefits programme announced
May 18 - The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) has launched a new Benefits Programme exclusively for its members, opening new options and reducing members' costs for healthcare and ancillary services.
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Erickson Air-Crane in USD 75 million IPO move
May 18 - Heavy-lift helicopter manufacturer and operator Erickson Air-Crane Inc has filed an Initial Public Offering (IPO) worth USD 75 million on the NASDAQ exchange in New York.
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Hamburg in modest Q1 cargo recovery
May 18 - Figures released by the Port of Hamburg show that heavy lift cargo, as well as most conventional, non-grab cargo is increasingly being sidelined at the northern German gateway.
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Chinese order for Converteam
May 17 - China Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd, (COOEC), the largest offshore engineering company in China for integrated services and a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), has awarded Converteam a contract valued in excess of GBP6
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CapMan to invest in Havator
May 17 - Finnish Institutional investor CapMan Buyout IX has taken a significant stake in the Havator Group, one of the Nordic region's leading suppliers of crane services, special transports, section assembly and harbour crane services.
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Seaports of Niedersachsen flies the flag in Bremen and Antwerp
May 17 - Seaports of Niedersachsen, which represents the nine Lower Saxony seaports, has taken its message to two key industry shows to fly the flag for the northern German seaports.
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It's bonny in Scotland for Aberdeen
May 17 - Aberdeen Harbour enjoyed a healthy 2009, with a bullish second half that exceeded forecasts.
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Norwegian office for GAC
May 14 - GAC has opened its newest logistics office at Oslo International Airport viewing this as an ideal location to continue the expansion of the company's warehousing, logistics and air freight interests in the region.
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Vanguard crane rises to the occasion
May 14 - South African heavy lift and relocation specialist, Vanguard, has used its latest major capital investment - a GTK 1100 crane - to install a wind turbine as part of the first phase of the first commercial wind farm at Port Elizabeth.
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Breakbulk Europe starts next week
May 14 - Has the progress in the recovery of the breakbulk and project sectors been significant enough to return the industry to sustainable levels of shipping?
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Something's cooking in Kitchen's
May 12 - Kitchen's Crane & Equipment has immediate availability on a Royal Tractor Rig'N'Lift 40/60 forklift.
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Success for Cargotec's innovative 'Test Article Vehicle Transfer System'
May 12 - An innovative ship-to-ship vehicle transfer system developed from combined Cargotec resources successfully completed US Navy sea trials earlier this year.