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The Friday Flyer
June 08 - Welcome to HLPFI's Friday Flyer, our round-up of news from the last few days, spiced up with a little anecdotal commentary from the editorial team.
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INTTRA and SeaIntel set to deliver shipping reliability index
June 8 - INTTRA and SeaIntel are joining forces to bring greater visibility to the ocean shipping industry through a first of its kind monthly report on key reliability measures.
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Combi Lift opens another office in Germany
June 6 - Combi Lift's chartering team has been further strengthened with the opening of a new office in Steinkirchen, Germany.
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Breakbulk under the spotlight in Africa
June 6 - Following the success of the Breakbulk Europe event recently, the organisers are set to move to Africa with the Breakbulk Africa Congress which will take place from August 7-8, 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Dutch invention to end towline chaffing failure on tugboats
June 5 - Rotterdam based shipping company Rotortug and ASD Ship Design from Alblasserdam, The Netherlands have invented a revolutionary tugboat technology to prevent towline failures from chafing against a tugboat's fixed towing point.
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European bank funding running out for shipping lines
May 29 - Traditional sources of bank business finance and capital in Europe are drying up for shipping lines in the face of global credit and austerity programmes, leading many to new sources of investment such as private equity funds.
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Australia sees significant fall in April machinery import volumes
May 29 - In its latest monthly shipping index, Skelton Sherborne reports that machinery import volumes in Australia in April decreased significantly by 12 percent to 2,351 units.
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Anchor chains away for Tuscor Lloyds
May 29 - UK shipping agent and forwarder Tuscor Lloyds has recently completed the movement of a large and heavy consignment of anchor chain from China to the UK North Sea, under the highly pressured requirements of a particular customer.
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Panama Canal toll rises are unacceptable, say shipowners
May 28 - Plans to increase toll charges for the Panama Canal are 'rushed, excessive and likely to cause further problems for shipping companies' given the fragile state of economic recovery, say shipowners.
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Projects FPS helps build a brewery
May 25 - Projects FPS - the project forwarding and third-party logistics arm of Famous Pacific Shipping Lanka - has cleared and delivered a 9,000 cu m shipment of outsize brewery equipment from Colombo Port to the site of a new brewery at Meegoda, Sri Lan
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BigLift transports five mobile cranes to Nigeria
May 23 - BigLift Shipping has used its heavy lift ship, Happy Dragon, to transport five mobile cranes for leading crane manufacturers Liebherr and Gottwald from Germany and Belgium to Nigeria.
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Safmarine welcomes new WAFMAX vessel
May 22 - Safmarine Chachai, a new 4,500 teu, Safmarine-branded WAFMAX containership, was delivered to Safmarine yesterday.
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Jumbo transports Gorgon caissons
May 22 - Jumbo Jubilee has transported and discharged 14 of the 25 Material Offloading Facility (MOF) caissons for the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project on Barrow Island, Australia.
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KPIs show that container industry needs to improve
May 21 - Project cargo consigned to ocean containers suffers from delays and service failures despite industry-wide vessel schedule reliability improvements to 72.3 percent in the first quarter of 2012.
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Aussie construction sector under pressure says report
May 15 - The most recent figures in an index tracking machinery imports paint a bleak picture of the construction sector in Australia, says freight forwarder Skelton Sherborne.
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Good first quarter for Wilh Wilhelmsen Holding
May 14 - Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA (WWH) has delivered top line and profit growth lifted by historically high total income and operating profit in the shipping segment.
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In with the new, worldwide for Hansa Heavy Lift
May 10 - Hamburg-based shipping line, Hansa Heavy Lift has been making news with new staff, new ships and new offices.
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Keynote speakers for Breakbulk Europe announced
May 9 - Keynote speakers for this month's Breakbulk Europe Transportation Conference and Exhibition have been announced.
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Shipping agreement signed between EU and USA
May 7 - Officials from the EU and the U.S.A have signed an agreement to mutually recognize each other's certified trusted traders (known shippers), a decision that will go into effect on July 1.
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Jumbo handles transition pieces
May 4 - Jumbo Shipping says its DP2 heavy lift vessel Jumbo Javelin has installed the first transition pieces (TPs) for the 400 MW Anholt Offshore Wind Farm in Denmark.