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Your Newsletter For Heavylift, Breakbulk & Project Cargo
Your Newsletter For Heavylift, Breakbulk & Project Cargo
Petrofac Load Jacket & Piles for Seagreen
The delivery of what will be Seagreen, Scotland’s largest, and the world’s deepest, offshore wind farm has taken another step forward. Petrofac’s operations to safely load out the High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) offshore substation platform jacket and piles were…
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A Closer Look at Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Earlier this year, we wrote about an article about hydrogen as a ship’s fuel. That was a general introduction to the subject, discussing the broad topics of production, propulsion, storage and supply. Now it’s time to take a closer look…
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Comparing Battery Technologies
As the world clamours to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets to mitigate climate change and electrify different sectors (especially cars), lithium is fast becoming a hot (pun intended) commodity. A recent outlook by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence mentioned that ‘there isn’t enough capacity within…
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Guess Who’s Back? Breakbulk!
Container shipping has been considered the epitome of the modernisation of seaborne transport for decades, but with port congestions, skyrocketing freight rates and the capacity crunch causing great disruption in supply chains, maritime now seems to be moving closer to…
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Shortsea Index Update
The latest results of the Toepfer Transport European Shortsea Index are out. Toepfer says that “both indices are again moving upwards on the back of a shortage of tonnage, port congestion and global supply chain disruptions that continue to spread…
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Louis Dreyfus Signs Deal with Airbus
Effective 1st October 2021, Louis Dreyfus Freight Solutions, a subsidiary of the Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group, signed a multi-year contract with Airbus for the transportation of A220 components from the production plant in Shenyang, China to the final assembly plant…
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Subsea 7 Awarded New Contracts in Brazil
This week, Subsea 7 announced a very large award (USD 500 million and USD 750 million) by Petrobras for new long-term day-rate contracts for the pipelay support vessels (PLSV) Seven Waves, Seven Rio and Seven Sun. The contracts will be…
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Incident Update: Seaway 7 Heavy Lift Crane
Seaway 7 has confirmed there has been an incident involving a folding A-frame on the main crane of heavy-lift vessel Alfa Lift during the build. The vessel’s 3,000 tonne crane was constructed by Liebherr Maritime Cranes and has recently been…
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UAL Loads Breakbulk in Turkey
Universal Africa Lines (UAL) Chartering’s vessel mv Knidos was recently spotted completing loading of breakbulk cargo in Derince, Turkey, and is now en-route to Onne, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria. UAL say they will be back in Turkey first half of December for…
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AAL Expands Fleet with Mega-Size Heavylift Vessels
AAL Shipping has announced the signing of an MOA in October 2021 to acquire an additional two 33,000dwt W-Class MPVs, vessels that have also been serving their…
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Strategic Marine Wins Order for 6 Strat Cat 27 CTVs
Singapore-based Sam Pan Marine Holdings Pte Ltd has ordered six Strat Cat 27 (SC27) vessels from Strategic Marine (S) Pte Ltd, with an option to build and…
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Chimneys Arrive in Port Henderson
Earlier this month, the 19,000dwt AAL Shipping vessel AAL Nanjing was spotted loading four giant heavylift chimney sections in China, filling the deck of the fully-loaded vessel.…
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