All Russia & CIS articles – Page 58

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    Blue Water brings rock-crushing equipment to Azerbaijan

    2009-09-02T00:00:00Z

    September 2 - Azerbaijani project cargo forwarder Blue Water is undertaking a year-long project to supply vital rock-crushing machinery to the country's ore extraction industry from the US.

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    Kuebler's role in world record air freight uplift

    2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

    September 1 - Spedition Kuebler, a member of the Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) network, helped Frankfurt-Hahn airport claim aviation history by dispatching the heaviest single cargo item seen via airfreight.

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    Heavy lift bonus for Panalpina

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    August 28 - High and heavy activities are not a core activity for global forwarder Panalpina's airfreight arm but at present the sector is proving a lifeline in the current economic misery faced by the global freight forwarding industry.

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    Kuehne + Nagel opens in Sochi

    2009-08-25T00:00:00Z

    August 25 - Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new facility in Sochi, Russia and anticipates that the new facility will be directly involved in providing logistics and transportation services to official contractors of the Olympic Winter Games 2014.

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    Air Charter International eyes prospects of emerging markets

    2009-08-18T00:00:00Z

    August 18 - Commenting on Boeing's recent World Air Cargo Forecast (WACF), Air Charter International has expressed its confidence that it is well-placed to capitalise on the projected tripling of world air cargo traffic over the next 20 years.

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    Northeast Passage opened by heavy lift shipping

    2009-08-10T00:00:00Z

    August 10 - While the famed North West passage across the top of North America is often discussed as a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, less well known is the potential 12,800 km Northeast Passage across the top of Russia.

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    Russian forwarder sees wind power potential

    2009-08-10T00:00:00Z

    August 10 - Russia could breathe new life into the country's project forwarding sector by investing in wind power technology, according to one local operator.

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    Alpine shortcut for Admiral's Cup challenger

    2009-08-10T00:00:00Z

    August 10 - In a scene that mimicked the famous opening sequence of the 1960 classic Italian film, La Dolce Vita, where a plaster statue of Christ is suspended by cables from a helicopter as it flies past the ruins of an ancient Roman aqueduct, a giant ca

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    Serving the Caspian

    2009-08-05T00:00:00Z

    August 5 - The St Petersburg-based North Western Shipping Company is, according to reports in the Russian media, towing a new non-propelled barge from St Petersburg to Ravenna in Italy where it will load equipment destined for the construction of an oil a

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    Volga-Dnepr assists Russian space programme

    2009-07-30T00:00:00Z

    July 30 - Volga-Dnepr Airlines has assisted the Russian Space Programme by delivering Meteor-M satellite to its launch pad in Baikonour. The satellite together with its launch equipment amounted to a total cargo weight of 50 tons.

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    Russia to resume production of world's largest airplane

    2009-07-23T00:00:00Z

    July 23 - Reports in the Russian media suggest that production of the Antonov An-124, the largest commercial aircraft to be mass-produced, could be about to recommence.

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    Volga-Dnepr reveals first half tonnage results

    2009-07-19T00:00:00Z

    July 19 - Volga-Dnepr Group, the Russian scheduled and charter cargo airline has reported a five percent fall in tonnage to 835,000 ton/kilometres during the first six months of this year.

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    Jumbo Shipping and Volgo-Baltic Logistic

    2009-07-08T00:00:00Z

    July 8 - LC Volgo-Baltic Logistic (VBL), one of Russia's largest freight agencies, has signed an exclusive agreement with Jumbo Shipping and becomes the heavy lift shipping company's exclusive commercial agent for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independen

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    Cryogenic tanks shipped from Russia to Guiana

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    July 3 - Worldwide Project Consortium member, Transy has managed the transportation of five cryogenic tanks from Russia to the Soyuz-ST LV launch complex in the Guiana Space Centre.

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    AirBridgeCargo adds service from Milan to Moscow

    2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), Volga-Dnepr Group's scheduled cargo airline, is expanding its freighter services from Europe to Russia with a new route between Milan and Moscow.

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    Worldwide Project Consortium adds three new members

    2009-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - In Azerbaijan, Blue Water Caspian Ltd has joined the network. BWC is a subsidiary of the Danish Blue Water Shipping group, which was established in 1972. Companies within BWS supply transport solutions by road, rail, sea and air. More informatio

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    Coyne Airways adds to capacity between Europe and Tbilisi

    2009-06-24T00:00:00Z

    June 24 - From July 1st, Coyne Airways is adding a second weekly Boeing 747-400 freighter service to its hub in Tbilisi.

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    Advance International helps Azerbaijan go for gold

    2009-06-22T00:00:00Z

    June 22 - Advance International Transport is playing a significant role in efforts by Azerbaijan to capitalise fully on its goldfield resources.

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    ASCO acquires Seletar

    2009-06-03T00:00:00Z

    June 3 - ASCO Marine, a subsidiary of the Aberdeen-based international oil and gas logistics specialist ASCO Group, has acquired Seletar Shipping, which is also Aberdeen-based and provides ships agency and related services to clients in the offshore, frei

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    R&L Canada in tough rig move

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    May 6 - Rohde & Liesenfeld Canada, in which Geodis-Wilson has a 50 percent shareholding, has won a major contract to move a drilling rig.