All Shipping articles – Page 284

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    TBS International swings to Q1 loss

    2009-05-08T00:00:00Z

    May 8 - In its first quarter results, TBS International swung to loss, hurt by a drop in freight rates, sending its shares down as much as 18 percent.

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    New line targets shortsea and inland waterways movements

    2009-05-07T00:00:00Z

    May 7 - A new heavy lift shipping line that will focus on the shipment of over-dimensional and heavy cargoes in coastal waters, or inland waterways has been launched.

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    "K" Line 2008 results helped by positive heavy lift activities

    2009-05-07T00:00:00Z

    May 7 - The heavy lift shipping business, including the transport of petrochemical plant and infrastructure-related heavy lifts, was one positive note to come out of "K" Line's 2008 results.

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    Nordana adds ro-ro loop for the Med

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    May 6 - Nordana Line has introduced a new dedicated intra-Mediterranean ro-ro service, adding to the string of ro-ro, multipurpose and container services that the shipping line operates between North and Latin America and the Mediterranean and West Africa

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    Famous Pacific Shipping hauls 60 tonne spud legs

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    May 6 - In Sri Lanka, Famous Pacific Shipping has transported four spud legs, each 24 metres in length, from the port of Colombo to the construction site of two new wastewater disposal systems outside the capital.

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    Sea trials for Jumbo Jubilee

    2009-04-29T00:00:00Z

    April 29 - Jumbo Shipping's new J-1800-class heavy lift vessel, Jumbo Jubilee, has left the Damen shipyard in Galatz, Romania, for sea trials, prior to delivery very soon.

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    Shortage of capacity hinders tide and wave energy projects

    2009-04-29T00:00:00Z

    April 29 - Industry observers have said that the potential of marine power as a future source of renewable energy is being undermined by a shortage of vessels that are able to deploy marine devices.

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    Partner Shipping and Praxis Logistics launch Pacific service targetting high and heavy cargoes

    2009-04-28T00:00:00Z

    April 28 - Partner Shipping AS of Norway and Praxis Logistics of Australia has agreed to charter two pure car and truck carriers, currently nearing completion, from Vroom, a Dutch shipowner, to operate a triangular shipping service linking the West Coast

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    Agility roars in Lion city

    2009-04-27T00:00:00Z

    April 27 - Agility has established an Asia Pacific HQ in Singapore and opened another RDC in the Lion City, strengthening its presence and providing a platform for further growth in the region.

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    Boosting Brazilian presence

    2009-04-24T00:00:00Z

    April 24 - HLPFI South American correspondent, Rainbow Nelson reports from the Intermodal South America event which took place in Sao Paulo this week.

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    Idled ships return to service

    2009-04-23T00:00:00Z

    April 23 - After AXS-Alphaliner reported a decrease in idled container ship capacity during the first half of April, the first dip in six months, experts are predicting a surge of overcapacity by the end of the year as seasonal cargo volume increases.

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    Mann Lines launches new service between Spain and Germany

    2009-04-23T00:00:00Z

    April 23 - Mann Lines has introduced a new weekly ro-ro service between Santander and Cuxhaven, utilising multi-purpose ro-ro vessels and roll trailers.

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    4th Annual Breakbulk Europe Transportation Conference and Exhibition

    2009-04-22T00:00:00Z

    April 22 - 'Working Toward Recovery" is the theme of the 4th Annual Breakbulk Europe Conference and Exhibition which will take place in Antwerp between 26-28 May 2009.

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    India's Economic Times claims deficient logistics services plague project cargo imports from China

    2009-04-20T00:00:00Z

    April 20 - According to a report in India's Economic Times, an increasing number of Indian project cargo importers including power plant buyers from China are learning the hard way the inefficiency of the logistics and supply chain management prevalent ou

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    WWPC members join forces to move giant modules

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    April 17 - LS Cargo Logistics GmbH from Germany and Albacor Shipping Inc of Canada, both members of the World Wide Project Consortium (WWPC), arranged the road transport of nine convection units each about 12 m long, 7.40 m wide and up to 5 m high, each w

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    Drewry Report says shipping lines must act now to survive

    2009-04-17T00:00:00Z

    April 17 - According to a Drewry Shipping Consultants report, container shipping lines must act now to survive the crisis in the industry.

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    The Eagle lands windpower components as US wind energy market sees more home manufacturing

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - Intermarine's Industrial Eagle has called at the US West Coast port of Olympia, Washington to discharge wind turbine components from Brazil. When discharge was completed, the ship was positioned to the Far East to join the line's intra-Asia ser

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    Focus on civil engineering

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - In the upcoming May / June edition of Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding, we will analyse developments in the civil engineering environment that are impacting on the demand and supply of heavy lift shipping capacity.

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    Albacor Shipping completes difficult transformer movement

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    April 15 - Albacor Shipping Inc, the WWPC member in the in USA has transported a massive transformer weighing 232 tonnes on a 12-axle FD from the Port of Norfolk to an Electric Utility site in Trapp.

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    Salazar plugs wind

    2009-04-07T00:00:00Z

    April 7 - According to reports in the international media, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has said that windmills off the U.S. East Coast could generate enough electricity to replace most, if not all, the coal-fired power plants in the United