All articles by HeavyLiftPFI – Page 695

  • News

    Industry portal queries shippers competence

    2009-04-20T00:00:00Z

    April 20 - Do exporters, importers, manufacturers and others who ship goods around the world know what they are doing? Are they adding costs instead of adding value?

  • News

    India's Economic Times claims deficient logistics services plague project cargo imports from China

    2009-04-20T00:00:00Z

    April 20 - According to a report in India's Economic Times, an increasing number of Indian project cargo importers including power plant buyers from China are learning the hard way the inefficiency of the logistics and supply chain management prevalent ou

  • News

    Large capacity hydraulic crane arrives in South Africa

    2009-04-20T00:00:00Z

    April 20 - A hydraulic crane shipped from Belgium in late March has arrived in South Africa and becomes the largest capacity hydraulic crane in the country according to sources.

  • News

    WWPC members join forces to move giant modules

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    April 17 - LS Cargo Logistics GmbH from Germany and Albacor Shipping Inc of Canada, both members of the World Wide Project Consortium (WWPC), arranged the road transport of nine convection units each about 12 m long, 7.40 m wide and up to 5 m high, each w

  • News

    Additional Goldhofer axle lines for Berard

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    April 17 - Berard Transportation Inc of Louisiana has invested in a further 20 Goldhofer axle lines with two power packs of type PST/ES-E in an effort to reinforce its leading market position in the US heavy-load sector.

  • News

    Drewry Report says shipping lines must act now to survive

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    April 17 - According to a Drewry Shipping Consultants report, container shipping lines must act now to survive the crisis in the industry.

  • News

    Survey highlights worries over trade protectionism

    2009-04-16T00:00:00Z

    April 16 - A new survey conducted by conducted by BDP's Centrx supply chain consulting unit; Adler Research of Bethlehem, USA; King's Road Consulting, USA; and Rubicon Consulting Pte Ltd, Singapore, indicates that 84 percent of manufacturers' supply chain

  • News

    Success Down Under for Volga-Dnepr first

    2009-04-16T00:00:00Z

    April 16 - Volga-Dnepr's first IL-76TD-90VD flight from Australia has successfully completed an emergency shipment of 10m pipes bound for Noumea in New Caledonia. The charter required a 72 hour response over the course of a weekend and called for the use

  • News

    Winder drums delivered

    2009-04-16T00:00:00Z

    April 16 - Project Management Logistics (Pty) Ltd, the South African member of the WWPC forwarding network, has undertaken the transport of over-dimensional winder drums for a mine hoist from Poland to a mine in Rustenburg, South Africa.

  • News

    Charles Gee in heavy haulage division launch

    2009-04-16T00:00:00Z

    April 16 - UK transport company and freight forwarder Charles Gee Group is in the process of launching a specialist heavy haulage division, to be based at London Heathrow, in order to serve the complex project and out of gauge cargo markets.

  • News

    The Eagle lands windpower components as US wind energy market sees more home manufacturing

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - Intermarine's Industrial Eagle has called at the US West Coast port of Olympia, Washington to discharge wind turbine components from Brazil. When discharge was completed, the ship was positioned to the Far East to join the line's intra-Asia ser

  • News

    Focus on civil engineering

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - In the upcoming May / June edition of Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding, we will analyse developments in the civil engineering environment that are impacting on the demand and supply of heavy lift shipping capacity.

  • News

    Mundra Port builds project cargo capabilities

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - India's Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd (MPSEZL) is developing as a facility for the handling of over dimensional and heavy project cargoes in India.

  • News

    Specialized Carriers & Riggers announces Financial & Risk Management Forum

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) will hold its 2009 Financial & Risk Management Forum at the Omni William Penn in Pittsburgh, Pa. on August 19-20.

  • News

    Albacor Shipping completes difficult transformer movement

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - Albacor Shipping Inc, the WWPC member in the in USA has transported a massive transformer weighing 232 tonnes on a 12-axle FD from the Port of Norfolk to an Electric Utility site in Trapp.

  • News

    Columbia Helicopters celebrates 40 years of tandem rotors

    2009-04-14T00:00:00Z

    April 14 - Columbia Helicopters, a world leader in heavy lift helicopter operations, is celebrating its 40th Anniversary in the operation of tandem-rotor helicopters.

  • News

    Rail is the answer for SRT

    2009-04-13T00:00:00Z

    April 13 - The services of Specialized Rail Transport (SRT) were recently required by two clients, one wishing to transport a rotary dryer from USA to Canada and the other requiring two 14' storage vessels weighing a total of 563 tonnes lbs to be taken to

  • News

    Cometto names US rep

    2009-04-10T00:00:00Z

    April 10 - Kitchen's Crane & Equipment has been appointed US dealer for the Italian Cometto range of specialised heavy lift transport equipment.

  • News

    Krabbendam takes seminar to Houston

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    April 9 - Anyone planning to visit next month's Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, may wish to consider extending their stay and attending Richard Krabbendam's mini-Seminar on heavy transport and lifting on May 8th.

  • News

    HMS Endurance returns to the UK

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    April 9 - HMS Endurance has arrived back in the UK onboard Dockwise heavy lift semi-submersible vessel, Target.