All articles by HeavyLiftPFI – Page 672

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    Goldhofer names Swiss area sales manager

    2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - Robert Venier has joined Memmingen-based Goldhofer as a field sales executive with responsibility for growing business in Switzerland.

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    AOP Project Partners faces the music in Bremen

    2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - JH Logistik GmbH has become the most recent company to join the AOP Project Partners network.

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    Project forwarder network expands into heart of Africa

    2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - Specialist project cargo forwarding network, the Project Professionals Group, is building its profile in the central African countries of Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger with the appointment of Afriglobe shipping lines as the network's repres

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    Collett invests

    2009-10-20T00:00:00Z

    October 20 - Collett Transport has recently taken delivery of a new, bespoke 110-tonne lift capacity straddle carrier at its MISTRAL Point, Heavy Lift Terminal at Goole in the UK.

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    BBC Chartering offers upright shipping for wind turbine towers

    2009-10-20T00:00:00Z

    October 20 - Wind turbine towers destined for the world's biggest offshore wind park are being transported upright on board a BBC Chartering and Logistic ship in an innovative project aimed at improving on similar methodology used when the towers are ship

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    Busy time in Asia for Mammoet jack ups and mega load-outs

    2009-10-20T00:00:00Z

    October 20 - While 2009 has provided some of the hardest business conditions for a generation, Mammoet reports that it has enjoyed a bullish period of activity for its jack ups and mega load outs.

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    Wheely big adventure for Ahlers India

    2009-10-20T00:00:00Z

    October 20 - Project cargo forwarder, Ahlers India has undertaken a complex movement of dump trucks from Bangalore through Chennai port to Algiers, overcoming some unusual legal and regulatory issues in delivering the trucks to the quayside for export for

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    Heavy lift seminars in 2009 and 2010

    2009-10-20T00:00:00Z

    October 20 - After the success of many previous heavy lift seminars related to safety in heavy lifting, Richard L Krabbendam, an expert in the field, has announced that many more seminars are yet to be held over the next few months in 2009 and 2010, write

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    Cost control boosts Dockwise profits

    2009-10-19T00:00:00Z

    October 19 - Dockwise recorded a 83.6 0ncrease in net profit to USD8.1 million for the third quarter, thanks to tighter cost control as revenue growth slowed amid subdued market conditions. Compared to the third quarter of 2008, revenue grew 12.4% to USD1

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    Kenworth T800s help Bigge make big moves

    2009-10-19T00:00:00Z

    October 19 - When your last name is Bigge, it's hard to imagine that you'll do anything small.

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    USD250 million funding target for Dockwise as 3i sells stake

    2009-10-19T00:00:00Z

    October 19 - Dockwise has announced that it will seek to raise up to USD250 million in fresh equity to pay off debt and prepare for future growth.

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    Rostock sets freight record in 2008

    2009-10-19T00:00:00Z

    January 19 - Last year saw a record cargo throughput at the Rostock ports, helped by increases in the handling of large pipes, cranes and wind energy generators, primarily driven by local production.

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    WWPC members unite for transatlantic shipment

    2009-10-17T00:00:00Z

    October 17 - Albacor Shipping Inc, USA, through its joint venture with the Midship Group, has handled the shipment of a hydraulic forging machine from Bremen to the US in cooperation with LS-International Cargo.

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    Halcrow attracts Battles from port of Houston

    2009-10-17T00:00:00Z

    October 17 - Wade Battles, ex-managing director of the Port of Houston Authority (PHA) has joined Halcrow Inc to head up its Houston office as vice president and regional manager.

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    China contract opens new market for Fairstar

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    October 16 - Fairstar Heavy Transport has entered into a contract with Zhenhua Logistics Group, an operating subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company Ltd., for the transport of two self-propelled hopper barges and one crane barge from Jedda

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    Maersk wants over-dimensional cargoes

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    October 16 - In a sign of its commitment to gaining a greater share of the breakbulk and out-of-gauge cargo market, Maersk has announced that it is purchasing more than 10,000 new flat-rack and open-top containers, increasing the size of its fleet of such

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    Antwerp upgrades port information system

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    October 16 - Antwerp Port Authority is currently developing a new version of APICS (Antwerp Port Information and Control System), an innovative software package which among other things supports vessel traffic controllers in drawing up the safest, most ef

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    What's in Issue 11 of HLPFI?

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    October 16 - In the November/December issue of HLPFI, our regional profile will be on the economies within the Gulf Cooperation Council; whilst our individual country reports will be on South Africa, France and Argentina.

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    Success for project forwarders conference

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - A record number of 120 delegates from 40 countries attended the 3rd annual WCA Projects Network (WCAPN) Conference 2009 in Istanbul, writes HLPFI's Oliver Ward who also attended the event.

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    A less rosy future for project cargoes?

    2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - Having escaped the headline-grabbing drop in traffic levels suffered by the container shipping lines over the last two years, the prospects for the multipurpose, heavy lift cargo shipping is looking a little less rosy, writes James Graham.