All Shipping articles – Page 273

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    Forwarders are increasingly attractive to ocean shippers

    2010-03-11T00:00:00Z

    March 11 - A keynote industry report that shows shippers are increasingly looking towards using the services of a professional freight forwarder. A key driver has been the increasingly fraught relationship between shippers and carriers that has become mor

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    New member for Militzer & M

    2010-03-10T00:00:00Z

    March 10 - Hamburg-based full service forwarder and logistics specialist Militzer & M

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    Maersk relaunches Farrell Lines

    2010-03-10T00:00:00Z

    March 10 - Maersk Line has revived the once well-known Farrell Lines brand, an American shipping line with deep history in the African trade, writes Kirsten Shepherd.

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    Cory Logistics delivers steel production line to India

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    March 9 - Cory Logistics is concluding the first phase of a three month assignment to transport an entire steel production plant to India from the UK. The movement has entailed loading and shipping 140 feus plus 4,500 tonnes of breakbulk cargo and OOG ite

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    Project cargo team ensures success in Libya

    2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

    March 9 - Members of the Project Professionals Group (PPG) have teamed up to deliver a consignment of 18 transformers and associated equipment to remote desert locations along the Libyan, Tunisian and Algerian borders.

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    Sloman Neptun launches Italy-Algeria link

    2010-03-08T00:00:00Z

    March 8 - A new shipping link between Italy and Algeria is set to launch later this month, operated by Sloman Neptun Shipping and Transport, writes Kirsten Shepherd.

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    napa service adds direct calls at Osaka and Shanghai

    2010-03-07T00:00:00Z

    March 7 - The companies which operate the napa service have announced that with the sailing of the Silverstone Express from Los Angeles on April 25th and Grays Harbor on April 28th, regular direct calls will be added at Osaki and Shanghai to the triangula

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    Stockton remains faithful to heavy lift cargoes despite box move

    2010-03-04T00:00:00Z

    March 4 - California's Port of Stockton is making a strategic move into serving box lines thanks to an USD18 million TIGER discretionary federal grant (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery).

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    BIMCO Reflections 2010 announced

    2010-03-04T00:00:00Z

    March 4 - The compelling need to prevent shipping regulation becoming fragmented, the importance of recognising IMO as the agency to govern shipping's response to greenhouse gas emissions, the contribution of the human component and the need for positive

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    UK companies look to offshore wind turbine opportunities

    2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

    March 1 - A strategic investment of up to USD150 million in the UK offshore wine turbine R&D could lead to significant opportunities for offshore and onshore heavy lift operators and project cargo forwarders in the coming years, industry observers predict

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    Allseas Global Logistics has joined AOP Project Partners

    2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

    March 1 - Allseas Global Logistics has joined the AOP Project Partners network.

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    Vanguard moves wax filtration units for SA export

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    February 26 - South African project forwarder Vanguard worked with Lovemore Bros to transport two wax filtration units in modular sections for a gas-to-liquids project.

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    Cory in Brazilian partnership tie-up

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    February 26 - Cory Brothers Shipping Agency has signed a partnership agreement with Brazilian-based Unimar Agenciamentos Mar

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    CTS set set to lift 400 tonne cable reel

    2010-02-25T00:00:00Z

    February 25 - Ravenna-based Compagnia Trasporti e Spedizioni (CTS) is set to lift what it claims is the heaviest-ever cable reel produced by the manufacturer - 397 tonnes - at the end next month.

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    TIGER fails to roar for Aker Philadelphia

    2010-02-24T00:00:00Z

    February 24 - Reports in the financial press indicate that Aker Philadelphia could eye wind turbine installation ships after its current contract to construct a series of product tankers is completed in 2012.

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    GPLN adds Pakistan member

    2010-02-22T00:00:00Z

    February 22 - The Global Project Logistics Network (GPLN) has added Karachi-based Star Shipping (PVT) Ltd as a member.

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    Grieg Star Shipping mines project traffic from Rotterdam

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    February 19 - In early February a shipment of hydraulic mining shields was loaded at the Interforest terminal, Rotterdam on Norwegian line Grieg Star Shipping's Star Evviva.

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    Rotterdam targets more feeder cargoes

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    February 19 - Whilst Rotterdam is well known as a hub for container traffic, the port is keen to increase this concept for the breakbulk and project cargoes sector.

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    Plate Logistics has joined AOP Project Partners

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    February 19 - Buenos Aires, Argentina-based Plate Logistics has joined AOP Project Partners.

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    Change of agency for Austral Asia Line in Malaysia

    2010-02-17T00:00:00Z

    February 17 - Austral Asia Line has a new agent in Malaysia.