A new breakwater dam is being built at the port of Genoa, which will allow bigger ships to enter the facility. The new dam will be the deepest in Europe, as Italian construction giant WeBuild,...Read more
A 78-ton generator is currently traveling via rail from the port of Genoa, in Italy, to Poland. The generator was loaded on a special project cargo wagon provided by Mercitalia Rail thanks to which the...Read more
A 375-ton column has fallen off its bulk carrier while travelling from the port of Marghera, near Venice to Oman on January 24. The accident occurred off the Italian Adriatic shore near Ancona, in central-eastern...Read more
The Bucharest-based branch of the Italian Tosto Group, Walter Tosto WTB (WTB), handled the shipment of the secondary reformer, used in chemical plants.Read more
The Eastleigh-based transportation company has shipped a private yacht and its tender vessel from Fort Lauderdale, in Florida, USA, to Genoa, Italy.Read more
The Turkish project logistics, heavy lifting and engineering company, Caba & Misnak, has purchased axle lines of the self-propelled modules from the Italian manufacturer Cometto.Read more
Fracht Group Poland delivered four generator stators from a factory in Wroclaw, Poland, to Termini in Sicily and Montalto Di Castro in the Viterbo province.Read more
Three reactors weighing 500 tonnes each produced by Walter Tosto reached the port of Ancona via barge from Ortona, in the Central Adriatic Sea.Read more
Fracht FWO Polska, the Warsaw branch of the Swiss transportation and logistics group Fracht, handled the transportation of oversized elements of the boiler installation for the Dolna Odra project.Read more
Terminal Del Golfo (TDG), which is part of the Mediterranean logistics Tarros Group, has ordered a Generation 6 Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbour Crane. The order, which was booked in July 2022, will be delivered in...Read more
Bertling Logistics (BL) has appointed Urs Schaerer as Global Technical Director, Kara Murphy to Group Health and Safety Director, and Chris Wightman to Logistics Group Engineering Director. The company also shipped a heavy steam boiler...Read more
The Bremen-based logistics company, 7 Worldwide Logistics (7WL), is handling the transportation of chemical plant equipment across continents, from Italy to Mumbai. Around 250 to 300 containers and 1500 cubic metres of over dimensional cargo...Read more
Project logisticsPRESS RELEASE – From October 2020 to late January 2021, Blue Water completed three project cargo shipments consisting of 142 units of equipment for an FPSO. The cargo had to be moved from Italy to...Read more
ShippingJumbo’s heavy-lift vessel Fairpartner has set a new lift record in the port of New Orleans while unloading two hydrocracking reactors for an oil major. Read more
Project logisticsPRESS RELEASE – Fortune International Transport in Italy has recently shipped a complete high-pressure separator including all equipment from Marghera in Venice to China. The heaviest piece weighed 90 tonnes with three additional pieces of...Read more
Project logisticsPRESS RELEASE – Altius has organized the shipment of two 122-tonne heat exchangers plus accessories from the OVS Vertova manufacturing plant in Northern Italy to the Ineos Refinery located in Grangemouth, Scotland.Read more
Project logisticsGerman Albanian Logistics Agency (GALA) has completed its largest contract to date: handling the logistics of the offshore section of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which connects Albania and Italy as part of the Southern...Read more
Liner servicePRESS RELEASE – AAL Shipping has appointed Genovese shipping firm Hugo Trumpy to be its exclusive commercial agent in Italy. The appointment follows the recent establishment of AAL’s new global liner service, which connects Europe...Read more
The coronavirus has reached Europe causing an outbreak in northern Italy over the weekend. So far, seven people have died and another 229 have been infected. Companies in the region are quickly taking measures to...Read more
Network ExpansionPRESS RELEASE – Blue Water Shipping has expanded its network with a new office in Milan, Italy. The office will initially focus on serving clients in the oil and gas, power generation, renewables and infrastructure...Read more