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Cranes

Manitowoc Unveils Potain MCT 2205

Manitowoc has set a new benchmark for tower crane innovation with the launch of the Potain MCT 2205 at Bauma China 2024. This topless tower crane, designed and manufactured in…

Cranes

Wolffkran Expands in Asia

After announcing a joint venture and inaugurating a new production site in Saudi Arabia, Wolffkran is forging ahead with its global expansion strategy. The focus now shifts to the Asian…

Cranes

MacGregor Lands EUR 25 Million Order for General Cargo Cranes

MacGregor, a division of Cargotec, has secured a substantial order exceeding EUR 25 million for the provision of general cargo cranes destined for ten multipurpose vessels with a deadweight tonnage…

Asia

Bahri Line introduces a new shipping line connecting Asia and Europe

Bahri Logistics’ business unit, Bahri Line, has officially launched a new pendulum service that connects Asia and Europe. This new cargo shipping line, which operates through Jeddah Islamic Port, forms…

Asia

AAL wins again at the AFLAS Awards

AAL Shipping has been recently named ‘Best Shipping Line – Project Cargo’ at the 2022 Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain (AFLAS) Awards, held in Hong Kong on Wednesday 7…

Africa

Largest Potain topless crane for Asia-Pacific and Emerging markets

Manitowoc has launched largest topless crane, the Potain MCT 805, for key Asia-Pacific and Emerging markets. Manufactured at at Manitowoc’s Zhangjiagang, China factory, the new model, which is similar to…

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Industry

Maritime electrification company Echandia opens branch in Norway

Swedish Echandia  expands in the Norwegian market through the appointment of industry veteran Roy Storeng to lead the business development in Norway. Echandia is one of the leading developers of…

Deliveries

One of the most powerful electric locomotives delivered to Azerbaijan

Alstom celebrates the delivery of the 40th Prima T8 AZ8A heavy freight locomotive under the contract to Azerbaijan Railways (ADY). In 2014, ADY signed a contract with Alstom for €288…

Asia

Bok Seng Logistics opts for Goldhofer

With more than 40 years of experience, Bok Seng Logistics PTE LTD Singapore has recently decided to invest in a transport solution from Goldhofer for the first time in the…

Asia

Megalift handles gas turbine transport

Megalift has recently handled the shipping of a 86tn gas turbine from Sweden to Malaysia. The SGT700 gas turbine, with dimensions: 13.54 x 5.34 x 4.01m, was shipped from the…

Asia

MacGregor secures large order from Asia

MacGregor has received EUR 31 million RoRo equipment orders for 8 vessels to be built in Asia. The deliveries are planned to commence during the second quarter of 2022 and…

Breakbulk

AAL commits to long-term monthly tramp sailings on its Asia – Americas trade route

AAL Shipping is capitalising on the frequency of sailings it has operated in the past 12 months between Asia and the Americas, to commit tonnage and resources to strengthening the…

Asia

AAL marks one-year anniversary of its ‘Europe – Middle East / India – Asia Liner Service’

AAL Shipping is celebrating one-year anniversary of its ‘Europe – Middle East / India – Asia Monthly Liner Service’ with a long-term commitment to employing six ‘mega size’ (30,000+ DWT)…

Asia

ZPMC to supply six gantries for the deep-water port in Timor-Leste

Timor Port S.A., a subsidiary of Bolloré Ports has awarded ZPMC with the contract on the supply of two STS dockside gantries and four RTG yard gantries to equip the…

Africa

Kribi Conteneurs Terminal inaugurates direct Asia-Africa line

Kribi Conteneurs Terminal (KCT) welcomed the CMA CGM Cendrillon ship on 17 August 2020. Measuring 334 metres long and with a capacity of 8,645 TEUs, the vessel inaugurated the direct…

Deliveries

AAL delivers two Siemens generators for Europe and Iraq

AAL has recently delivered two Siemens ‘S-Gen’ generators, weighing close to 350 mt each, for two new clean energy gas-fired power plants in Europe and Maysan, Iraq that will help…

Cranes

AAL delivers giant jib cranes to Dubai

The AAL Melbourne recently delivered two jib cranes and their components weighing just over 1,800 mt in total to Dubai. Manufactured in China by global supplier of heavy lifting and…

Asia

Two Liebherr RMG cranes for Russia

Freight Village Vorsino, located outside Moscow have signed a contract with Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd. for the supply of two rail mounted gantry (RMG) cranes. The RMG’s have a span…

Access platforms

Haulotte’s first quarter sales drop 19%

Haulotte recorded revenues of €132.9 million in the first quarter of 2020, compared to €163.2 million in the same period last year, which had been a record first quarter in…

Asia

Maersk’s first intercontinental train from Europe to Asia

Mersk’s first intercontinental train was dispatched from St. Petersburg port in the eastward direction, carrying goods from Europe to Asia. The overall transit time of the new intercontinental service from…

Air Cargo

Geodis secures millions of masks for France

Geodis has been commissioned by the French Government to organize the emergency supply of millions of masks from China to France. The transport specialist is planning 16 flights over the…

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