All Ports and terminals articles – Page 166

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    Modulift in dockside lift design

    2016-04-26T00:00:00Z

    April 26 - Modulift has supplied a customised below-the-hook solution to marine engineering specialist MAATS Tech for help in lifting an 85-tonne load from the dockside onto a vessel at Hyundai Heavy Industries' shipyard on Mipo Bay in Ulsan, South Korea.

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    GAC promotes two

    2016-04-25T00:00:00Z

    April 25 - GAC has appointed Hakan Wester as its new group vice president - strategy and planning, and named Mikael Leijonberg as the group's new chief financial officer.

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    Scaldis to lift Flinter ship

    2016-04-25T00:00:00Z

    April 25 - Dutch shipowner Flinter has signed a contract with a consortium, headed by Scaldis and including DEME, Jan de Nul and Herbosch-Kiere, to remove the wreck of its vessel Flinterstar, which sank in the North Sea following a collision last October.

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    Indiana welcomes first ship of season

    2016-04-25T00:00:00Z

    April 25 - The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor opened its 2016 international shipping season with the arrival of the bulk carrier, Lubie, which brought steel cargo to the US port from Ijmuiden, the Netherlands.

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    UECC in Auto Eco launch

    2016-04-25T00:00:00Z

    April 25 - The first of two new pure car and truck carriers (PCTC) for United European Car Carriers (UECC) has been launched at the NACKS shipyard in Nantong, China.

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    Trailers make South African debut

    2016-04-25T00:00:00Z

    April 25 - ALE's latest range of widening trailers in South Africa are being used for their first job, which involves the transport of eight tugboats from a warehouse to a floating dock in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal.

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    German companies add to fleets

    2016-04-25T00:00:00Z

    April 25 - In Germany, Zimmermann Autokrane, Riga Mainz, Scholpp and Regel have all recently invested in new cranes for their respective fleets.

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    OMA in management buy-out

    2016-04-22T00:00:00Z

    April 22 - OMA Group's managing director, Gary Miller, and his co-directors, Carine Noukpo and Sam Edmund, have completed a management buy-out of the company from its founder, Captain R.A.M. Jones.

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    Bore is more for Spliethoff

    2016-04-22T00:00:00Z

    April 22 - Rettig Group is divesting its ro-ro shipping company Bore to Dutch shipping company Spliethoff Bevrachtingskantoor with all the activities of the Bore business transferring to Spliethoff, including the shipping line's employees; fleet of nine r

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    Weyerhaeuser removal contract awarded

    2016-04-22T00:00:00Z

    April 22 - The Port of Everett commission has awarded Nickel Brothers with a contract to relocate the historic Weyerhaeuser building from its current location at the US gateway to the port's new Boxcar Park.

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    European groups seek uniform approach on container weighing

    2016-04-22T00:00:00Z

    April 22 - A collective appeal has been made to national authorities by European shippers, freight forwarders, port authorities and terminal operators for a coordinated implementation of the International Maritime Organization's SOLAS convention, which re

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    Bahri and Rickmers-Linie agree space charter

    2016-04-22T00:00:00Z

    April 22 - Rickmers-Linie and the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (trading as Bahri Liner) have recently signed a space charter agreement in the trade between the USA, the Red Sea and the Middle East.

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    WWL takes third ro-ro ship

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has seen the maiden voyage of Theben, a brand new High Efficiency RoRo (HERO) class vessel, in the Asia-Europe trade.

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    Gulliver travels with Scaldis

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - Gulliver will be the name of the Scaldis Salvage and Marine Contractors DP2 heavy lift vessel that is currently under construction in China, as it eyes deployment in European waters after its scheduled delivery in the spring of next year.

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    FLS-KAA takes out of Iraq

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - FLS-KAA has coordinated the shipment of 1,700 cu m of project cargo from Iraq to Jebel Ali, UAE.

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    Study shows US cross-border problems

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - In the USA, as part of a study on multi-state, multimodal oversize/overweight (OS/OW) transportation for the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the management consulting firm CPCS indexed 72 unique OS/OW regulations, operational restrictions,

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    Panalpina grows as oil business slows

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - Panalpina posted an EBIT of CHF24 million (USD24.6 million) and a consolidated profit of CHF17.3 million (USD17.8 million) for the first quarter of 2016, despite the continued contraction of the global oil and gas business.

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    DHL launches US Customs brokerage system

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - DHL Global Forwarding (DHLGF) has been collaborating with software provider Kewill to develop and launch a new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)-compliant Customs brokerage system, in an effort to expedite DHL's customers' Customs entries

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    Scheuerle impresses at bauma

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - Scheuerle unveiled its new SPMT widening adaptor, strongest power pack unit (PPU) and innovative EuroAxle independent wheel suspension technology at bauma last week.

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    Arkas makes Hamburg debut

    2016-04-21T00:00:00Z

    April 21 - Turkish shipping line Arkas has made its maiden call at the Port of Hamburg with its vessel Wanda A, which is deployed on Hapag-Lloyd's West Africa Express Service (WAX).