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Australia-based shipbuilder Strategic Marine has signed a contract with Australian marine operations company, Bhagwan Marine, to build a 48.5-metre landing craft for use in the Australian offshore oil and gas industry. The vessel will be used in Western Australia’s north-west hydrocarbon province. Although a multi-cargo vessel, it will be primarily ...
NATO's Operation Ocean Shield to combat piracy off the Horn of Africa "in conjunction with other actors and organisations", is now underway and is designed to suppress piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin to an "acceptable level". The operation will continue "until the regional states develop and effectively employ sufficient capacity to assum...
KENYA's Coast Development Authority (CDA) plans to open a public container freight station (CFS) on six-acres at Jomvu on the road to Nairobi outside Mombasa after its negotiates a KES16 million (US$210,167) bank loan to do the job, reports Nairobi's Business Daily. CDA managing director Nesbert Mangale said the authority hopes to raise KES100 million r...
WORLDWIDE Flight Services (WFS) has won a five-year exclusive contract to operate the new Dube Tradeport Cargo Terminal at the new Durban airport in South Africa when it opens in May. "The New International Airport at La Mercy clearly recognises the importance of providing world class cargo facilities for its airline and logistics customers," said WFS chi...
NEW YORK's Air Cargo News has taken up the cause of jailed air freight executives who were left "twisting in the wind" by employers after "Beltway prosecutors" built their "reputations at air cargo's expense" by generating a "Salem witch trial" atmosphere. "Anybody who doesn't think law enforcement is not out of control is not paying attention," said t...
PURFRESH, a provider of clean technologies that purify, protect, and preserve food and water, has unveiled its solution that it says makes ocean transit a viable option for highly sensitive produce shipped worldwide. Fremont, California-based Purfresh Transport provides "ripening control" with 100 per cent residue-free decay prevention. The key is deployi...
For the second consecutive month, the decline in AirFrance KLM traffic (-2.9%) in August 2009 was well below the reduction in capacity (-4.2%). The load factor gained 1.1 points to 84.8%. The group carried 6.6 million passengers (-3.8%). The reduction in capacity put a stop to the deterioration in unit revenues. - On the Americas network traffic fel...
On 6 September, 2009, Dutch Government representatives officially opened the high speed line connecting Amsterdam Central Station-Schiphol Airport-Rotterdam Central Station, operated by NS Hispeed (the Netherlands Railways’ high-speed operations brand name). The first trains to run on the line are being hauled by BOMBARDIER TRAXX locomotives at 160 km...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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