Shipping news – Page 215

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    FPS Group celebrates 15 years

    2013-10-29T00:00:00Z

    October 29 - Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) Group has celebrated its 15th anniversary with one of its best-attended annual conferences.

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    ICS launches web-based resource

    2013-10-29T00:00:00Z

    October 29 - The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is launching a new web-based information resource to assist shipping companies to implement the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Maritime Labour Convention (MLC).

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    Depth Logistics and Riback partner up

    2013-10-28T00:00:00Z

    October 28 - Depth Logistics has formed a partnership with Riback Stevedores, jointly developing a new quarantine washpad in Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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    First steel cut for latest Messina newbuild

    2013-10-28T00:00:00Z

    October 28 - The first steel has been cut for the Genoa-based shipping company, Ignazio Messina's latest newbuilding, Jolly Vanadio, in the STX Offshore & Shipbuilding shipyard in Jinhae, South Korea.

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    Behrmann retires from IPSEN

    2013-10-28T00:00:00Z

    October 28 - At the end of October, after 47 years of service for Bremen-based IPSEN LOGISTICS, Helmut Behrmann is retiring from his role as head of the company's Africa division.

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    BWS' contract with Keppel gets under way

    2013-10-25T00:00:00Z

    October 25 - Blue Water Shipping has transported two pontoons from the Philippines to Singapore, as part of a contract with Keppel FELS.

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    GBS helps towards 2018 World Cup

    2013-10-25T00:00:00Z

    October 25 - German company, Global Boat Shipping, has transported five pontoons from Rotterdam to Kaliningrad, Russia, for use in the construction of a new World Cup stadium.

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    The Friday Flyer - October 25th 2013

    2013-10-25T00:00:00Z

    When is an auction not an auction? When a sole buyer turns up with a chequebook to make the lowest bid possible, especially when that buyer seems to be a group of potential competitors.

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    Fleet Line on the double

    2013-10-24T00:00:00Z

    October 24 - Dubai-based Fleet Line Shipping Services LLC has shipped two 58-tonne pressure vessels from the Hamriya Free Zone in Sharjah, UAE to Busan in South Korea.

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    FMC calls for global regulatory summit on P3 Alliance

    2013-10-23T00:00:00Z

    October 23 - The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission Chairman, Mario Cordero, issued a call to fellow regulators in the European Union and the People's Republic of China, to join with him in a Global Regulatory Summit on the proposed P3 Global Alliance of th

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    Charles Gee group in administration

    2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - UK haulage and shipping group Charles Gee has called in restructuring firm FRP Advisory after suffering acute cashflow pressures following years of tough trading.

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    High cube container use is growing

    2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

    October 22 - Shipper demand for 40 ft high-cube containers is still increasing, creating stowage problems for ocean carriers and analytical difficulties for trade forecasters using teu measurements.

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    Dockwise Yacht Transport sold

    2013-10-18T00:00:00Z

    October 18 - Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) has sold Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT) to Amsterdam-based Sevenstar Yacht Transport, which is part of the Spliethoff Group.

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    Reshamsingh joins PPL

    2013-10-18T00:00:00Z

    October 18 - India-based Reshamsingh & Co has become the latest member to join the Pacific Power Logistics (PPL) network.

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    Nuclear energy projects power Robert Wynn

    2013-10-18T00:00:00Z

    October 18 - Staffordshire-based shipping company Robert Wynn & Sons Ltd has completed two high profile deliveries to Sellafield, Cumbria and Flamanville, Normandy.

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    The Friday Flyer - October 18th 2013

    2013-10-18T00:00:00Z

    To misquote US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, lawmakers in Washington were 'eyeball to eyeball, and then the other side just blinked' this week when the US Congress passed a bill to reopen the government and raise the USD16.7 trillion federal debt limit. T

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    SBM and Blue Water Shipping partner up

    2013-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - SBM Offshore has chosen Blue Water Shipping as the logistics provider for two FPSO projects, the largest contracts in SBM's history.

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    Salammbo joins XLProjects

    2013-10-15T00:00:00Z

    October 15 - Salammbo Group's Libya and Tunisia branches have joined the XLProjects Network.

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    Blue Water Shipping and Lind

    2013-10-14T00:00:00Z

    October 14 - Blue Water Shipping and Lind

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    GAL replaces two

    2013-10-14T00:00:00Z

    October 14 - Following last week's news of the arrival of the fourth and final new build into MACS Maritime Carrier Shipping's fleet, sister company GAL has confirmed that two of the vessels that have been replaced are now operational in its services betw