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Week 31, 2020

Mammoet Delivers Giant 1400t Column to New Borealis Site in Belgium
Mammoet has safely delivered a 1400t C3 splitter column to the new Borealis propane dehydrogenation (PDH) site in Kallo, Belgium. The 109m long and 10m…

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Breakbulk Europe 2020 Cancelled - New Date Announced
The 2020 edition of the Breakbulk Europe exhibition and conference has been officially cancelled and rescheduled to 18-20 May 2021. According to event organiser Hyve,…

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Blue Water Shipping Ships two CALM Buoys
Blue Water Shipping does some heavy-lifting with the handling and shipment of two CALM Buoys weighing 250 tonnes each. Blue Water’s Project & Chartering team…

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Mammoet Crane Operational in Nigeria
A Mammoet Terminal Crane (MTC 15) is now in operation at Lagos Deep Offshore Logistic Base, LADOL, to offer a solution to port challenges in…

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Photos: Wagenborg's MV Cito ships project cargo reels to Denmark
Last week, Wagenborg’s MV Cito loaded and shipped two project cargo reels to Frederica in Denmark for Boskalis. The first reel was loaded onboard in…

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Breakbulk at Port of Rotterdam fell by 11% in first half of 2020
Port of Rotterdam has announced their half-year results saying that COVID-19 pandemic depressed cargo throughput. The port achieved a throughput of 218.9 million tonnes in…

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PFN Goes Fully Digital for Annual Members Conference
Today, Project Freight Net (PFN), the project freight forwarders network, announced that proceeding with the PFN2020 conference is not safe or achievable due to Covid-19…

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Fagioli partners with Somalev in Morocco
Fagioli SPA (Italy) and Somalev Cranes and Logistics (Morocco) have formed a strategic alliance to provide heavy lift services together for upcoming projects in Morocco…

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A Seafarer's Life Nowadays
Dear Editor, I wrote this a few years ago, but I think it’s important to say again today in view of the welfare of our seafarers. Shipping isn’t just a job, it’s a career and a way of life that’s brought a lifetime of challenges and fond memories for generations. But that career…
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LATEST PODCAST
Radio Podcast: SouthEastRadio Ireland Interviews Peter Bouwhuis, XELLZ
This interview details XELLZ’s expansion in the port of Rosslare in Ireland. The dutch project logistics company has just acquired an additional 100.000sqm of land at the port to further…
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WEEKLY INDUSTRY UPDATE
Weekly Bunker Update - 30 July 2020
Keeping an eye on bunkers. Your weekly bunker update powered by InterContinental Bunkering. Brent crude futures were up by 3 cents, or 0.1%, at $43.25 a barrel by 0529 GMT,…
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We asked Dennis Mottala if vetting freight forwarders is enough...
In this piece, we investigate the vetting process for qualifying logistics and transport service providers, having been inspired by the Breakbulk webinar last week. We address the question that shippers…
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STATUS OF SEAFARER CREW CHANGES
Part 3: Industry strength helping seafarers despite weak leadership from governments
Part 3: The Way Forward So far, in this series of articles, we have covered The Impact of the coronavirus…

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Part 2: Industry Strength Helps Seafarers Despite Weak Leadership from Governments
Part 2 of 3: The Response from an industry that has mustered together. After reading about the massive impact of…

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Part 1: Industry Strength Helps Seafarers Despite Weak Leadership from Governments
Part 1 of 3: The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on crew changes has been huge. Five companies share their…

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Plight of seafarers a “ticking timebomb”
The world’s seafarers are trending in the media at the moment, with the UK’s Guardian and BBC News covering the…

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