All Shipping articles – Page 255

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    Terra firma provides business for Plate Logistics

    2011-06-02T00:00:00Z

    June 2 - Buenos Aires-based project forwarder Plate Logistics has undertaken a number of contracts that highlight the importance of underground exploration to the project cargo sector.

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    WWL appoints India MD

    2011-06-02T00:00:00Z

    June 2 - Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has appointed Gur Prasad Kohli as managing director for India.

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    PCN grows in new territories

    2011-06-01T00:00:00Z

    June 1 - The Project Cargo Network has broken ground in two new territories and expanded in an existing territory as it grows its global reach.

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    GAC is open for business in Trinidad & Tobago

    2011-06-01T00:00:00Z

    June 1 - GAC Energy & Marine Services LLC (GEMS) is expanding its shipping and logistics services to Trinidad & Tobago, with its newest office open for business in San Fernando.

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    Hansa Heavy Lift launches tomorrow

    2011-05-31T00:00:00Z

    May 31 - The newly formed, Bremen based maritime shipping company, Hansa Heavy Lift GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the international investment enterprise Oaktree Capital Management, which commences its business operations tomorrow, has revealed its f

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    Hansa off to market

    2011-05-27T00:00:00Z

    May 27 - Finally, the speculation is over with this week's confirmation that the principal shareholder of the Beluga Group Holding Company, Oaktree Capital Management, has established a new, and totally independent shipping company.

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    Roll up, roll up as RollDock doubles up

    2011-05-26T00:00:00Z

    May 26 - The semi-submersible RollDock Sea has been delivered by her builders to Dutch heavy lift shipping company RollDock, doubling the Ijssel-based company's current fleet.

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    Once more unto the breach for Embassy Freight

    2011-05-26T00:00:00Z

    May 26 - What's in a name? That which we call the Big Apple is the destination of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), thanks to UK freight forwarder Embassy Freight Services (Midlands).

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    IMO places container weight misdeclaration in the spotlight

    2011-05-25T00:00:00Z

    May 25 - The Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation will address the issue of weight misdeclaration of containerised cargo shipments and undertake other measures to improve the safety of container stowage and ship operations.

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    Port of Antwerp congratulates Chipolbrok on 60th birthday

    2011-05-25T00:00:00Z

    May 25 - The Port of Antwerp congratulated Chipolbrok on its 60th anniversary during the recent Breakbulk Conference in Antwerp.

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    Study shows mixed messages for container supply for project cargo

    2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

    May 24 - Project cargo forwarders who rely on containerised traffic are facing mixed messages as to the supply of ocean containers - a decline in the manufacture of new containers, an excess of idle containers and a forecasted upturn in global trade that

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    Faststream reports rising demand for technical shipping candidates

    2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

    May 24 - The latest report by shipping industry recruiters Faststream reveals that there is a rising global demand for ex-seafarers in shore based positions.

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    Heavy lift newbie sets benchmark for cryogenic tank movement

    2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

    May 24 - Project cargo broker InterConti Navigation is claiming a heavy lift benchmark with a recent shipment from the Czech Republic to Norway of the world's largest double-hull cryogenic tanks.

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    Metro Ports appoints director, business development for US west coast

    2011-05-22T00:00:00Z

    May 22 - US marine terminal operator and stevedore contractor, Metro Ports has appointed Jonathan Allyn as director, business development, U.S. west coast.

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    Vancouver, USA secures funds for port improvements

    2011-05-20T00:00:00Z

    May 20 - The Port of Vancouver, USA is to receive a USD800,000 loan from the Washington State Community Economic Development Revitalization Board to improve port facilities.

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    UK liner agency enters into administration

    2011-05-20T00:00:00Z

    May 20 - Long-established UK liner shipping agency Johnson Stevens Agencies has entered into administration with the administrators, accountancy firm PKF, already agreeing deals shipping industry entrepreneur, Andrew Thorne to acquire certain assets from

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    Flinter Aland named and launched

    2011-05-18T00:00:00Z

    May 18 - Flinter Aland has been christened and launched at Shipyard Ferus Smit in Westerbroek.

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    Crowley given CRP status by US State Department

    2011-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - The US State Department has designated Jacksonville-based Crowley Maritime's Miami logistics warehouse as a Consolidated Receiving Point (CRP) facility. This permits Crowley to act as a subcontractor, providing complete logistics services to the

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    Ethiopian Shipping Lines' vessels get MacGregor cranes

    2011-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Cargotec has confirmed a new order for 21 MacGregor variable frequency drive (VFD) electric cranes to be installed on seven 28,000 dwt multipurpose cargo ships being built at Huanghai Shipbuilding in China for Ethiopian Shipping Lines, with the c

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    IGS handles Mumbai-bound consignment of construction equipment

    2011-05-17T00:00:00Z

    May 17 - Qatari freight forwarder Intergroup Shipping (IGS), working with Mumbai-based Keel Logistics, has won an order to ship secondhand construction equipment and accessories from Doha to Mumbai for a Qatar-based Chinese company.