THE world's biggest concrete pump is being flown in by the world's biggest cargo plane, the Antonov 225, from Georgia to Japan to help smother the smouldering Fukushima nuclear reactor - Chernobyl style, reports Georgia's Augusta Chronicle. The 190,000-pound pump, owned by Augusta's Ashmore Concrete Contractors, and made by Germany's Putzmeister, has...
MOL Asia has announced a string of new regional and country appointments, with effect from April 11 to beef up operations in south east Asia and south China. Masaru Satose, currently the regional director for MOL's operations in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Myanmar, will transfer from Singapore to Hong Kong to assume the position o...
AGENTS of the European Commission arrived for "unannounced inspections" at the offices of German rail operator Deutsche Bahn looking for evidence that the company was abusing its dominant position in the rail freight market. "The commission has reason to believe that Deutsche Bahn may have breached EU anti-trust rules that prohibit the abuse of a dominant...
Sembcorp Marine's shipyard unit has clinched a long-term maintenance and refit alliance contract with Canada-based Teekay Marine Services. Sembawang Shipyard will provide ship repair, refurbishment, upgrading and related marine services for Teekay's fleet of 137 ships docking in Singapore. The yard will also support joint planning, information and experie...
Offshore services firm Otto Marine has through its subsidiary agreed to sell two anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels to an unnamed third party at a price of $43.4m. Otto Offshore currently has the two vessels of 8,000 bhp each under construction and they are expected to be completed by this year. Subsequent to the delivery of these vessels, a unit of ...
On Monday March 28, 2011 European Commission (EC) issued a statement announcing that it had adopted a comprehensive strategy (Transport 2050) for a competitive transport system that will increase mobility; remove major barriers in key areas and fuel growth and employment. At the same time, the proposals will dramatically reduce Europe's dependence on impor...
A US District Court in San Juan has issued a temporary restraining order in favour of Crowley Puerto Rico Services, Inc. The order prevents the Puerto Rico Ports Authority from beginning security inspections of Crowley's customers' cargo coming into the island from the US mainland, while not inspecting the cargo of Crowley's competitors. Although the ...
BEIJING Capital International Airport has signed a memorandum on becoming a sister airport with those operated by Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT), Xinhua reports. The deal will strengthen the exchange of the two parties on operation, service enhancement and business management, and facilitate the cooperation on exploring new technologie...
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.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi