Middle East news – Page 92

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    Air Charter Service on the move in Paris as Smith moves in

    2011-06-02T00:00:00Z

    June 2 - Air Charter Service's Paris operation has moved to much larger offices and welcomed Stuart Smith from the company's New York office, to head up the expanding cargo department.

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    Four project movements display industry's variety

    2011-06-01T00:00:00Z

    June 1 - A quarter of heavy lift and project cargo operations undertaken by members of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) demonstrate the wide variety of operations in this industry.

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    UK liner agency enters into administration

    2011-05-20T00:00:00Z

    May 20 - Long-established UK liner shipping agency Johnson Stevens Agencies has entered into administration with the administrators, accountancy firm PKF, already agreeing deals shipping industry entrepreneur, Andrew Thorne to acquire certain assets from

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    IGS handles Mumbai-bound consignment of construction equipment

    2011-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Qatari freight forwarder Intergroup Shipping (IGS), working with Mumbai-based Keel Logistics, has won an order to ship secondhand construction equipment and accessories from Doha to Mumbai for a Qatar-based Chinese company.

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    SDV Horoz on the double

    2011-05-11T00:00:00Z

    May 11 - The Project Cargo Network (PCN) member for Turkey, SDV Horoz has completed the shipment of a transformer, pictured below, weighing over 170 tonnes to Germany from Turkey.

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    Leading weather company acquires offshore forecasting technology business

    2011-05-09T00:00:00Z

    May 9 - MeteoGroup has acquired Nowcasting International, a global weather forecasting company specialising in metocean solutions for the offshore industry.

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    Rickmers-Linie adds ships to upgrade Indian service

    2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

    May 5 - Rickmers-Linie is upgrading its Indian service with the addition of new vessels.

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    Cargolux in talks with Qatar Airways

    2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

    May 5 - The international business media is awash with reports that Cargolux is in talks with Qatar Airways about a minority shareholding in the European all-cargo carrier, with the Middle East airline reported to to be close to agreeing to the purchase o

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    Jumbo Shipping works with Lift & Shift to move refinery equipment

    2011-04-28T00:00:00Z

    April 28 - Jumbo Shipping has worked with India's Lift & Shift to transport critical refinery equipment manufactured by Larson & Toubro for the Kuwait National Petroleum Company's Clean Fuel Project in Kuwait.

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    PCN completes its trio of UK members

    2011-04-27T00:00:00Z

    April 27 - The Project Cargo Network (PCN) has filled its UK membership quota with the signing of its "third and final" UK member, says Rachel Humphrey, PCN chairwoman.

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    Magdenli moves cement mill

    2011-04-20T00:00:00Z

    April 20 - Magdenli Transport and Trade from Ankara, Turkey, has used its own heavy equipment fleet to transport a cement mill module weighing over 121 tonnes.

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    New overland service for Iraq

    2011-04-19T00:00:00Z

    April 19 - Exporters looking to serve the Iraq oil and gas industry might be interested in the guaranteed twice-weekly express road trailer services between Western Europe and Iraq recently launched by independent freight forwarder F.S. Mackenzie.

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    Towering delivery for SATI

    2011-04-18T00:00:00Z

    April 18 - SATI International Transport & Travel Co, one of Iran's leading heavy haulage companies has handled the transportation of a 650 tonne tower, 36 m in length and 6.1 m in diameter, from Bandar Abbas port to Shiraz in central Iran - a distance of

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    Magdenli moves tunnel boring machinery

    2011-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - Magdenli Transport and Trade from Ankara, Turkey, has used its own heavy equipment fleet to move almost 2,000 tonnes of tunnel boring machinery from Gemport to the Cengiz-IC Ictas-Belen consortium's jobsite on the high-speed railway which it is

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    Coordinadora Internacional overcomes natural and business disasters to load cargoes

    2011-04-13T00:00:00Z

    April 13 - It is well known that project forwarding requires plenty of out of the box thinking to operate successfully.

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    Year of emergency response charters continues for ACS

    2011-04-12T00:00:00Z

    April 12 - Air Charter Service has started to arrange humanitarian charters to the troubled Ivory Coast [C

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    ASCO signs GBP20 million (USD20 million) contract with Perenco

    2011-04-07T00:00:00Z

    April 7 - ASCO UK has been awarded a five-year contract extension from Perenco UK.

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    Erfmann secures control of Swift Freight brand in Dubai

    2011-04-04T00:00:00Z

    April 4 - Barloworld Logistics (BWL) Middle East & Asia has sold a recently created entity Swift Freight LLC to the former ceo of Swift Freight International LLC, three years after it acquired the latter company along with its branch network in Africa and

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    PCN reveals new member in Qatar

    2011-03-30T00:00:00Z

    March 30 - Bin Yousef Cargo Express W.L.L. has joined the Project Cargo Network (PCN) as a member in Qatar.

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    GPLN boosts membership in Egypt

    2011-03-29T00:00:00Z

    March 29 - Alexandria-based, Marine & Engineering Services Company (MESCO) has become a member of the Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) for Egypt.