Jan De Nul Group has been contracted to transport and install a total of 41 wind turbines of 8.4 MW...Jan De Nul scores Vesterhav Nord & Syd job
The first delivery of Vestas turbine components for the Kaban Green Power Hub recently reached the Port of Cairns in...Vestas turbine components for Kaban wind farm reach Port of Cairns
Legend Logistics in Singapore has made further inroads into the yacht transport sector with the opening of a dedicated business....Legend Logistics sets up yacht transport business
Jumbo-SAL-Alliance HLV ships Liebherr cranes to Angola
Jumbo-SAL-Alliance’s heavy lift vessel Frauke recently loaded two fully assembled Liebherr LHM 800 cranes (high rise version) in Rostock, Germany. Both cranes towering at a 57.05 metres height are destined for Luanda, Angola in South-West Africa. Read more
Jan De Nul reinstalls renovated Pierre Vandamme Lock gate
Jan De Nul has reinstalled the second lock gate in the Pierre Vandamme Lock at the Port of Zeebrugge. The operation has been completed one and a half year after the heavy lift vessel Guliver...Read more
Cargow acquires Icelandic shipping company Thorship
Dutch based shipping company Cargow has acquired all shares of the Icelandic shipping company, Thor Shipping (Thorship). The owners of Thorship have already been involved in Cargow from the date of establishment and will remain...Read more
Toepfer: MPP tonnage steadily high
The Hamburg-based broker Toepfer Transport saying its index has risen to $18,973 for the month of December. It is the 18th consecutive month the Index has been growing, hitting a year-on-year increase of 173.73 percent. Read more
Spot rates drop weakens Drewry’s MPV index growth
Both container and bulk sectors experience weaker growth over the month of November with both sectors reporting spot rates dropping from record highs. This was the major contributor to Drewry Multipurpose Time Charter Index (MPV...Read more
Volga-Dnepr flies world’s largest commercial comms satellite to Japan
Volga-Dnepr Airlines has organised delivery of the world’s largest and most sophisticated commercial communications satellite – Inmarsat-6 F1, also known as I-6 F1, from Toulouse (France) to Kitakyushu (Japan) aboard its An-124-100.Read more
Mammoet heavy lift works continue at Barmer complex in India
Mammoet has continued its heavy lift work at the Barmer oil refinery and petrochemical complex in Rajasthan, India, for L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering. The company will be utilising its PTC ring cranes to lift and install...Read more
Fessenheim nuclear power plant parts sail through the Dutch waterways
During the weekend large parts of the former French nuclear power plant will sail through the Dutch inland waterways. Six parts of the former Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant owned by EDF (Électricité de France) are...Read more
Çaba & Misnak delivers telescope mirror to the top of a mountain
Turkey’s major heavy haulage and heavy lifting company, Çaba & Misnak Project Logistics helped transport a 10-ton telescope mirror from Russia to the city of Erzurum. Read more
Port of Rotterdam: energy transition shakes up breakbulk industry
Worldwide, it is one of the most important ongoing evolutions: the energy transition. For supply chains in the breakbulk industry and for ports around the world, this transition has an enormous impact as well. With...Read more
Mammoet delivers project cargo for Hinkley Point C
Dutch heavy lift and transport specialist Mammoet recently lend a hand to Balfour Beatty and EDF with project cargo delivery for the Hinkley Point C project. The company transported a pair of handling alignment frames...Read more
COSCO Shipping semi-sub giant transports jack-up pair to Abu Dhabi
COSCO Shipping Specialised Carriers informed on Thursday its 50,000-ton semi-submersible vessel Xiang An Kou departed Shenzhen Lantau Island loaded with two jack-ups and took course for Abu Dhabi. The two jack-ups weigh 13,700 and 12,200...Read more
Eneti uses option for second wind turbine installation vessel with DSME
Marine-based renewable energy player, Eneti, has exercised an option it held with the South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for the construction of one wind turbine installation vessel.Read more
IATA: air cargo sees 9.4 pct demand rise in October
Demand for air cargo continues to hover well above pre-crisis levels as the demand constraints have eased slightly, the International Air transport Association (IATA) says in its latest report. Read more
Ti: freight forwarding market to end 2021 with 12 pct rise
After jumping 19 percent in the first half of 2021, the global freight forwarding market is expected to close the year with a 12 percent increase over 2020. The analyst Transport Intelligence (Ti) notes that...Read more