All News articles – Page 597

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    Airlander 10 scheduled to fly again

    2016-10-28T00:00:00Z

    October 28 - Having experienced a heavy landing during its second test flight in August, Hybrid Air Vehicles' (HAV) hybrid airship Airlander 10 is being repaired and is on schedule to fly again in the early part of 2017.

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    C.H. Robinson sees profits fall

    2016-10-27T00:00:00Z

    October 27 - Earlier this week, large US logistics company CH Robinson said higher haulage costs and Hanjin'sbankruptcy were partly responsible for the fall in revenues and profits it recorded for third quarter.

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    Harren & Partner in Caribbean expansion

    2016-10-27T00:00:00Z

    October 27 - Harren & Partner has established a new office in Kingston, Jamaica, which comprises three companies, H&P Ship Management Office Kingston, H&P Caribbean Maritime Services and the newly founded German Ship Repair Jamaica - a joint venture betwe

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    Basra Gateway expansion moves forward

    2016-10-27T00:00:00Z

    October 27 - International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) has officially opened the first phase of its greenfield terminal development at the Basra Gateway Terminal in Umm Qasr, Iraq.

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    WCA chooses Bali

    2016-10-27T00:00:00Z

    October 27 - The WCA Projects network will hold its 11th annual conference at the Sheraton Kuta Resort in Bali, Indonesia from September 29 - October 1, 2017.

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    Nils B owner pleads guilty

    2016-10-27T00:00:00Z

    October 27 - The United States Department of Justice has announced that two German shipping companies that owned and operated the general cargo ship Nils B have pleaded guilty before a federal court in San Diego on charges of discharging oil contaminated

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    IAG Cargo adds London-New Orleans route

    2016-10-27T00:00:00Z

    October 27 - Scheduled to commence in March 2017, IAG Cargo is adding a direct route between its hub at London Heathrow airport and New Orleans International airport.

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    Rickmers-Linie in record Rijeka move

    2016-10-26T00:00:00Z

    October 26 - Rickmers-Linie's heavy lift vessel Rickmers Tokyo has loaded 15 transformers, weighing between 56 and 142 tonnes each, at the Port of Rijeka in Croatia.

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    Eastern Shipping scores hat-trick

    2016-10-26T00:00:00Z

    October 26 - Eastern Shipping of Romania arranged the transportation of three methanol reactors, weighing 378 tonnes each, from Bucharest, Romania to Constanta port, where the units were loaded on board the geared heavy lift ships, BBC Parana and BBC Euro

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    Change at the top for Terex

    2016-10-26T00:00:00Z

    October 26 - With immediate effect, Steve Filipov has replaced Ken Lousberg as president, Terex Cranes.

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    Boskalis wins Hornsea contract

    2016-10-26T00:00:00Z

    October 26 - Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) has been awarded a contract by Dong Energy for the transport and installation of the foundations for part of the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the North Sea.

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    Agility invests in Africa

    2016-10-26T00:00:00Z

    October 26 - Agility has opened a distribution park near Ghana's Tema Port - the first in a network of logistics facilities it intends to build across Africa.

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    Gebrüder Weiss names sales head

    2016-10-25T00:00:00Z

    October 25 - Gebrüder Weiss has appointed Markus Jelleschitz as its head of corporate sales.

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    German shortsea shipping merger formed

    2016-10-25T00:00:00Z

    October 25 - Leer based Hartmann Group and Papenburg headquartered Schulte & Bruns have agreed to expand their cooperation in shortsea shipping activities, with both parties taking a 50 percent share in Schulte & Bruns Chartering.

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    Panalpina posts 'stable' figures

    2016-10-25T00:00:00Z

    October 25 - In the first nine months of 2016, Panalpina recorded a slight increase in EBIT and consolidated profit, when adjusted for a second-quarter restructuring provision of CHF26 million (USD26.1 million).

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    SAL carries Damen vessels

    2016-10-25T00:00:00Z

    October 25 - SAL Heavy Lift's freighter, Svenja, recently called at the Port of Rotterdam to deliver 14 new vessels built by the Damen Shipyards Group at its facilities in Asia.

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    Breakbulk soars at Jaxport

    2016-10-25T00:00:00Z

    October 25 - Jaxport handled almost 888,000 tonnes of breakbulk cargo during the 2016 fiscal year ended September 30, 2016, a 22 percent increase compared with the previous year.

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    ALE wraps up Ichthys work

    2016-10-25T00:00:00Z

    October 25 - ALE has completed its scope of work at the Ichthys project's onshore LNG facilities in Darwin, Australia.

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    Rickmers-Linie handles mega yacht

    2016-10-24T00:00:00Z

    October 24 - Rickmers-Linie's Rickmers Dalian made a stop-over at an anchorage off Lavrion in Greece to load an impressive mega yacht.

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    Volumes down in Rotterdam

    2016-10-24T00:00:00Z

    October 24 - Although the Port of Rotterdam posted a 2 percent year-on-year drop in breakbulk cargo throughput during the first nine months of 2016, volumes improved in September due to an increase in steel and monopiles destined for offshore wind farms i