January 2025
Heavy lift carrier AAL Shipping (AAL) transported a 560-tonne crane body from Kobe, Japan to New Orleans on its regular Asia-Americas Trade Lane Service onboard the 31,000dwt AAL Kembla. The operation posed unique challenges due to the component’s size and complex load configuration.
The consignment included the crane body - 20.14m long, 15.5m wide and 19m high - as well as a 60-tonne crane boom and five large grab buckets, each ...
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The WACO System forwarders network has appointed ABC Cargo Logistic as its member for Colombia. It offers comprehensive freight and logistics services, including air, ground and sea freight, and full customs brokerage.
The family-owned business was founded in 1986. It holds several internationally recognised licences, including ISO 9001:2015 and BASC (Business ...
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Militzer & Münch has opened a Belgium arm to support, in particular, traffic to the Maghreb countries of North Africa. The new M&M Belgique, an M&M France subsidiary, will initially focus on building strong connections between the Benelux region and Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria. In a second step, it will ...
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Dublin Port says that the local seal population remains healthy and thriving despite large-scale marine construction works as part of the second phase of Dublin Port’s Masterplan 2040 (MP2).
The findings were confirmed by a comprehensive new survey of ‘haul-out’ sites which are important for seals as it enables them to ...
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The Department for Transport is holding a one hour webinar on the Freight Innovation Fund at 11am on Tuesday 4 February. Introduced in 2022, FIF offers grant funding to small and medium sized companies to undertake trials of new technology in an operational and his disbursed £7m over three years. ...
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Groupage operatorTransmec Group has increased its UK warehousing with an extension to its Worcester hub.
It increases capacity from 110,000 to 146,000 sq ft and three sides of the warehouse have been extended with the new areas used for both racking and floor storage.
The project takes Transmec’s UK warehousing space to ...
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Broker Air Charter Service says it has arranged charter flights carrying over 1,000 tonnes of aid to the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte since it was hit by Cyclone Chido on 14 December.
Ben Dinsdale, director for government and humanitarian services said: “We were first contacted the following day and ...
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Port of Boulogne Calais reported a profitable year in 2024, despite the unstable economic climate, with cross-Channel, rail motorways and new cars all showing growth.
The Port of Calais maintained its freight traffic at the same level as in 2023, with 1.8 million units and f almost 40 million tons. The ...
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Portsmouth carried out the first LNG transfer at the port when the Saint-Malo, Brittany Ferries' new LNG-electric hybrid ferry took on the fuel from the Optimus, a bunkering barge operated by Titan Clean Fuels.
Titan was issued a permit to perform LNG bunkering operations at Portsmouth International Port earlier this month, ...
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Climate events are impacting canal operations and are widely forecast to get worse in the future, warns insurer TT Club.
In 2024, the hottest year on record globally, European waterways continued to experience significant disruption to cargo transport. In June the Rhine suffered torrential rain leading to severe flooding in southern ...
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