All articles by HeavyLiftPFI – Page 685

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    Record breaker for Lufthansa Cargo Charter

    2009-07-13T00:00:00Z

    July 13 - Working with Geodis Wilson and Jade Cargo International, Lufthansa Cargo Charter has airfreighted an intermediate shaft weighing 45 tonnes and measuring nine metres in length and two metres in height and breadth from Helsinki to Seoul.

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    Sai Maritime claims another Indian record

    2009-07-13T00:00:00Z

    July 13 - Sai Maritime & Management, the exclusive agent of SAL in India, is claiming a record for the single heaviest item shipped through the port of Mumbai on behalf of the Logistics Division of Larsen & Toubro Hazira.

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    Shanghai Ocean Knight manages drill block shipment

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    July 10 - Shanghai Ocean Knight Shipping Inc, the Worldwide Project Consortium member in China, has shipped a drill block, weighing 450 tonnes from Nangton to Yangtai.

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    BACA appoints first chief executive

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    July 10 - The Baltic Air Charter Association (BACA) has appointed Markham Jackson as it first Chief Executive.

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    SRT on track with super heavy railcar

    2009-07-09T00:00:00Z

    July 9 - In the US, Specialized Rail Transport has commissioned a 20-axle railcar which boasts a total freight capacity of 450 tonnes.

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    Kuehne + Nagel opens Chongqing office

    2009-07-09T00:00:00Z

    July 9 - Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new branch office in Chongqing in central China and confirmed that it will be involved in the management of project cargoes with inquiries being organised in close coordination with the company's project competence cen

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    Jumbo Shipping and Volgo-Baltic Logistic

    2009-07-08T00:00:00Z

    July 8 - LC Volgo-Baltic Logistic (VBL), one of Russia's largest freight agencies, has signed an exclusive agreement with Jumbo Shipping and becomes the heavy lift shipping company's exclusive commercial agent for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independen

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    Shajel moves power plant equipment

    2009-07-08T00:00:00Z

    July 8 - Netherland Antilles-based, Shajel NV, is managing the shipment of heavy components from the port of St. Maarten to the New Cole Bay Power Station in the Netherland Antilles.

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    UMA Tunisia moves heavy cranes from the Baltic to Tunisia

    2009-07-08T00:00:00Z

    July 8 - UMA Tunisia has managed the shipment of two cranes weighing more than 495 tonnes with a total volume of 2900 cu m from the Baltic port of Klaipeda to Menzel Bourguiba in the north of Tunisia.

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    Solid earth for PD Ports?

    2009-07-07T00:00:00Z

    July 7 - Speculation continues about the future ownership of PD Ports with reports in the financial media suggesting that Terra Firma, a leading British buyout firm, is preparing a bid for the subsidiary of Babcock & Brown Infrastructure.

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    PPG heads for Corpus Christi

    2009-07-07T00:00:00Z

    July 7 - A record number of sponsors and over 100 freight forwarding executives from 34 countries are expected to attend the Project Professionals Group annual conference in Corpus Christi, Texas, later this month.

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    Looking forward to Breakbulk in New Orleans

    2009-07-07T00:00:00Z

    July 7 - New Orleans, the famous Big Easy, is the venue of the 20th Annual Breakbulk Transportation Conference and Exhibition, between October 13-15, 2009.

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    Rickmers-Linie names Greenport for UAE and Bahrain

    2009-07-07T00:00:00Z

    July 7 - Rickmers-Linie has appointed Greenport Shipping Agency LLC, Dubai as its new agent in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

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    Eleven countries represented at heavy lift seminar

    2009-07-06T00:00:00Z

    July 6 - More than 25 participants from 11 countries attended the latest 'Heavy Transport & Lifting' seminar in the Netherlands.

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    WWPC scores hat-trick with new members

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    July 3 - A My Transportation Co., Ltd. (Amytrans) along with Transmares Logistica Integral S.A. (TMLI) and Transmares Costa Rica S.A. have been appointed as new members of the project forwarding network WWPC.

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    Cryogenic tanks shipped from Russia to Guiana

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    July 3 - Worldwide Project Consortium member, Transy has managed the transportation of five cryogenic tanks from Russia to the Soyuz-ST LV launch complex in the Guiana Space Centre.

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    Port of Longview welcomes barge service

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    July 3 - Daybreak Transportation and Rail Transfer of Longview, Washington, has launched a monthly barge service to and from Hawaii through the Port of Longview.

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    PD Ports gets all heavy in Hull

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    July 3 - PD Ports has handled some specialist project cargo through the Hull Container Terminal (HCT) which it has operated since 1990.

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    Safmarine adds Safari options

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    July 3 - Yesterday the first sailing of a new string dedicated to the Indian Ocean Islands and Mozambique on Safmarine's existing Safari (Southern Africa-Far East) service and the line says that it will accept heavy lift and out of gauge cargo subject to

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    New Geodis Wilson MD in Spain targets heavy lift

    2009-07-02T00:00:00Z

    July 2 - Alain Reich, recently appointed managing director of Geodis Wilson Spain is keen to develop the company's role in the project forwarding sector in Spain.