All North America articles – Page 200

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    Exceptional trio for RHB Stevedoring & Warehousing

    2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - A trio of destinations from Rotterdam has been served by sailings of the heavy lift line Beluga working with its Waalhaven terminal stevedoring partner.

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    Breakbulk Americas hears evidence of a recovery

    2010-10-21T00:00:00Z

    October 21 - This year's Breakbulk Americas Transportation Conference and Exhibition in Houston saw record levels of attendees and exhibitors.

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    Bigge Crane establishes east coast HQ

    2010-10-20T00:00:00Z

    October 20 - Bigge Crane and Rigging is expanding again, this time relocating its Richmond, Virginia location to a complex more than twice the size of the current yard.

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    Hiring round marks industry's health

    2010-10-19T00:00:00Z

    October 19 - A round of worldwide hiring in the heavy lift and project shipping sectors suggest that pressure on bottom lines around the world is easing.

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    Millionth ship for Panama Canal

    2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - A Chinese vessel has become the millionth vessel to transit the Panama Canal since it was built almost a century ago.

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    Gulf drilling moratorium ends, but drilling must wait

    2010-10-14T00:00:00Z

    October 14 - Following this week's end of the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling, companies that are helping the industry meet new regulations are scrambling to keep up with increased business while oil-rig workers must remain idle until the new req

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    Tandem lift for Beluga Stavanger

    2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - Kurt, a working civil engineering platform belonging to Tiefbau GmbH Unterweser (TAGU) 50 m long and 22 m wide, and weighing almost 1,000 tonnes proved a challenging cargo for the two cranes of the multipurpose heavy lift project vessel Belug

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    Actuaries say true cost of maritime piracy is still uncertain

    2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

    October 12 - Despite attacks by Somali pirates on international shipping in the Gulf of Aden making headlines across the world, the true cost of these attacks to the maritime insurance industry are still uncertain, according to a new report published by t

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    Sarens Group has hectic summer

    2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

    October 8 - Heavy lift crane contractor Sarens Group has enjoyed a hectic six months to October, says CEO Wim Sarens.

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    Independent forwarders go global

    2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - The 7th Annual Sino-International conference held at the Asia World Expo in Hong Kong offered the perfect venue for over 1400 participants to assess how, in an international market where borders have thinned and economics rule, local independe

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    GAC-USA inter-branch cooperation delivers heavy lift success

    2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Collaboration was the key when three GAC USA offices on the Gulf of Mexico worked together recently to deliver the goods onto a heavy lift ship.

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    Canadian truckers buy heavy lift haulage specialist

    2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Challenger Motor Freight, of Cambridge, Ontario and has acquired most of the assets of Sandrock Specialized Carriers, a special commodities carrier focusing on transporting heavy equipment and over-dimensional freight, established ten years ag

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    GPLN adds three

    2010-10-06T00:00:00Z

    October 6 - Casablanca-based, Fast Global Logistics - http://www.fglog.com/index.html - has been accepted into the Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) as the project forwarder group's first member in Morocco.

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    Cleveland's heaviest load of all time

    2010-10-04T00:00:00Z

    October 4 - Jumbo Shipping's Stella Prima arrived at the Port of Cleveland carrying a shipment that included a 286 tonne transformer destined for an AEP power plant in East Brilliant, Ohio.

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    Six international freight forwarding companies agree to plead guilty to price-fixing charges

    2010-10-04T00:00:00Z

    October 4 - Further to our report on Friday, HLPFI has now learned that six international freight forwarders have agreed to plead guilty and pay criminal fines totaling USD50.27 million for their roles in several conspiracies to fix a variety of fees and

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    New VP Operations & Engineering for Donjon Marine

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - Donjon Marine Co Inc has hired Stephen N. Konzel as vice president of Operations & Engineering.

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    Cross trade business for Etamad

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - Bucharest-based Etamad Grup Sea & Land Transport is currently involved in the cross trade transport of 10 locomotives from Busan in Korea to Bandar Abass in Iran on behalf of ANC Iran.

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    New general manager for Lufthansa Cargo Charter in the Americas

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - Lufthansa Cargo Charter Agency has named Andrew Morch as general manager America.

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    Forwarders enter into plea agreement in U.S. Antitrust case

    2010-10-01T00:00:00Z

    October 1 - Both Panalpina and Kuehne + Nagel have announced the settlement of certain claims arising from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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    Liebherr delivers one of the largest mobile harbour cranes

    2010-09-29T00:00:00Z

    September 29 - Liebherr claims to have delivered the largest mobile harbor crane on the east coast of the USA to Rukert Terminals, Baltimore where it was officially commissioned for service.