Shipping news – Page 259

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    MLB Manfred Lauterjung Befrachtung Spain joins GPLN

    2011-07-06T00:00:00Z

    July 6 - MLB Manfred Lauterjung Befrachtung is the latest member of The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN), reports Jamie May.

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    Doubts raised over business case for offshore wind power generation

    2011-07-05T00:00:00Z

    July 5 - A report by global business consultants, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, on the business case for the offshore wind power industry has determined that the industry "has some way to go to prove it can take its place as a sustainable part of the energy mix

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    African demand for heavy lift set to grow beyond 2021

    2011-07-05T00:00:00Z

    July 5 - Africa is one of the few regions of the world where there is genuine expectation of large scale heavy lift growth in the next decade, claims global shipping forwarder and agent Tuscor Lloyds.

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    Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics makes senior appointments

    2011-07-04T00:00:00Z

    July 4 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has added two senior officers to its global executive management team.

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    Project cargo powers double-digit growth at Bilbao

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - General conventional goods at Bilbao port, helped by project cargo activity, rose by 14 percent in the first three months of the year. Project cargo at the Spanish Atlantic port includes machinery, wind energy equipment, rail carriages, buses, pa

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    Jumbo Shipping opens for business in Bremen

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July 1 - Dutch heavy lift shipping company, Jumbo Shipping has opened a representative office in Bremen, Germany, in cooperation with German independent breakbulk and heavy lift shipbroker Coli Schiffahrt & Transport KG.

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    Albacor's move to Miami

    2011-06-30T00:00:00Z

    June 30 - Albacor Shipping's Banning, California office handled the shipment of a heavy transformer from Savannah Port to Miami, Florida.

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    Medden sums up 2011 first half

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - Turkish project cargo shipping agency Medden Shipping has been involved in a number of project cargo shipments around the Turkish coastline in the first half of 2011.

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    New ship deal for NSCSA

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - The National Shipping Co. of Saudi Arabia has signed a 'murabaha' financing agreement with the Saudi British Bank (SABB) and the National Commercial Bank for SR822.6 million (USD219.3 million) that will finance 80 percent of the cost to construc

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    Cruz doubles up IL-76TD flights for significant client

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - Almaty, Kazakhstan-based project cargo forwarder Cruz Logistics recently required two IL-76TD journeys on consecutive days to move four load banks from Fujairah, UAE to Uralsk, Kazakhstan for a significant customer.

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    Miguel Salas is CEVA's project cargo manager for Iberia

    2011-06-29T00:00:00Z

    June 29 - CEVA Logistics has appointed Miguel Salas as freight management project cargo manager in Iberia

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    Broekman Group opens new head office

    2011-06-24T00:00:00Z

    May 24 - Broekman Group has centralised its different operations within a new head office in 'PortCity 1', the Waalhaven, Rotterdam.

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    Costa Rica's Laninco joins GPLN

    2011-06-24T00:00:00Z

    June 24 - The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) has added Laninco S.A. as its latest member in Costa Rica

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    Jumbo Shipping delivers its largest ever container crane

    2011-06-24T00:00:00Z

    June 24 - Jumbo Shipping has delivered a container crane measuring 71 m high and 29 m wide to the Port of S

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    Allcargo Laxmi on its maiden call at Mumbai Port

    2011-06-24T00:00:00Z

    June 24 - Allcargo Global Logistics is celebrating the first call of its new coastal shipping service at Mumbai port.

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    Imperial Reederei takes over BARIS

    2011-06-22T00:00:00Z

    June 22 - Effective July 1, 2011 Imperial Reederei GmbH will be the exclusive shareholder of BARIS Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH, with the company operating as Imperial BARIS GmbH from that date with its head office in Berlin and a branch office in Duisbur

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    Trio of appointments strengthens Ahlers management

    2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

    June 21 - Three new executives have been appointed by Ahlers to bolster its management teams in three key markets.

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    From Brazil to Bangkok for PPG

    2011-06-20T00:00:00Z

    June 20 - Delegates at last week's fourth annual conference of the Project Professionals Group in Rio de Janeiro endorsed Bangkok as the 2012 annual conference venue for the specialist project forwarding network.

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    Awards on both sides

    2011-06-17T00:00:00Z

    June 17 - Trans-United Inc, of Burns Harbor, Indianapolis, USA, is celebrating after being named a winner of the Indiana Fleet Safety Contest.

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    A Chinese epic takeaway the weather couldn't halt

    2011-06-17T00:00:00Z

    June 17 - A biomass boiler destined for green power generation in Italy presented Tuscor Lloyds with problems large in size as the company undertook an extremely difficult and complex multimodal shipment from Hunan province deep inside China through to Tr