Energy Logistics – Page 3

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    City Union Logistics moves transformers with nine charters

    2018-08-03T08:09:25Z

    City Union Logistics has transported transformers weighing 900 tons in nine freighter charters for General Electric from Changzhou, China, to Cairo in Egypt.The XLProjects member chartered four Antonov AN-124 flights and five with a Boeing 747F to move the 2,000 cu m load.Said a spokesperson for XLProjects: "The project’s main ...

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    MABkargo B747F charter for the oil and gas sector

    2018-05-25T08:18:17Z

    Malaysia Airlines’ freight arm, MABkargo, has organised a charter flight from Germany to Malaysia with almost 72 tonnes of oil and gas bulk cargo.The charter, which used a Silk Way West Boeing 747-400F, originated from Leipzig and arrived in Bintulu Airport (BTU), Sarawak of East Malaysia, after a quick transit ...

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    Antonov Airlines flies power plant rotor into Pakistan

    2018-05-17T10:48:17Z

    Antonov Airlines has transported a power plant rotor from Genoa in Italy to Karachi, Pakistan, on one of its seven An-124-100 freighter aircraft.The rotor and associated equipment carried weighed in at a total of 108 tonnes.“Careful planning was necessary to guarantee the safe loading and unloading of the rotor,” commented ...

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    Network Airline Management and TAAG renew freighter contract

    2018-05-10T13:43:27Z

    Network Airline Management (NAM) and TAAG Angola Airlines — the national airline of Angola — have renewed their long-term freighter aircraft contract for a factory-built Boeing 747-400F with nose door.The freighter — operated by NAM — carries up to 120,000 kilos of oil-related and general cargo and continues its weekly ...

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    Volga-Dnepr in LNG project flights

    2018-03-29T11:05:31Z

    Volga-Dnepr Airlines has performed two flights from Novy Urengoy to Sabetta in Russia delivering 130 tonnes of industrial equipment for ‘Yamal-LNG’, one of the world’s largest gas recovery projects.Volga-Dnepr transported a 30-tonne high pressure pump and other gas recovery cargo weighing a total of approximately 130 tonnes onboard two An-124-100 ...

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    KOG adds to project logistics teeth in the US

    2018-02-21T11:08:41Z

    Swiss project logistics specialist KOG Worldwide has further expanded its presence in the US with a Chicago branch under the management of subsidiary KOG Transport Inc.With representative offices already located in New York and Houston, this is the project logistics specialist’s third site in the US.“The business potential in the ...

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    Houston, we have a solution. Piped spooling flown to US on B747-400F cargo charter

    2017-08-16T13:12:24Z

    Chapman Freeborn Airchartering oversaw the time-critical delivery of 60 tons of pipe spooling from Sharjah to Houston for an equipment upgrade at a gas-to-liquids processing plant.The air cargo charter specialist’s Dubai office coordinated the movement, on behalf of a freight forwarder, with the assistance of Magma Aviation, which repositioned a ...

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    Rising star at Crane Worldwide

    2017-07-31T11:51:48Z

    Specialist logistics company Crane Worldwide has promoted Chris Mitchell from director of global specialized solutions in Asia to vice president, global specialized solutions based in Singapore.Originating from the UK, Mitchell has been based in Asia since 1998 and has been involved in the development and execution of projects primarily in ...

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    Qatar and StarBroker join forces for energy charter

    2017-07-05T11:01:40Z

    Qatar Airways Cargo has transported more than 80 tonnes of oil and energy equipment from Zhengzhou in China to Cabo Frio in Brazil for DHL Global Forwarding.The Qatar Airways Boeing 777 freighter saw the Middle East carrier's first charter flight into Cabo Frio, an airport located close to the most ...

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    Siemens' rotor to Kuwait is project managed by Volga-Dnepr

    2017-06-19T13:58:25Z

    Volga-Dnepr Airlines has completed the urgent delivery of a 57-tonne generator rotor to Kuwait on behalf of energy shipper Siemens.Siemens asked Volga-Dnepr to project manage the shipment using one of the Russian airline’s An-124-100 freighters to ensure that the 11-metre long cargo reached its destination on-time from the manufacturing site ...

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    Antonov targets US cargo charters

    2017-06-17T10:34:19Z

    Specialist freighter operator Antonov Airlines wants to expand transatlantic all-cargo charter services as it leverages a bilateral air services agreement between Ukraine and the US.The Kiev-based operator, with a fleet of Antonov An-124-100Fs and the sole Antonov An-225 mega freighter, will target the oil and gas energy market and the ...

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    Qatar heads to northern dynamo

    2015-10-21T08:13:48Z

    QATAR Airways Cargo plans to launch a freighter service to Stavanger, Norway, effective 3 November. Stavanger is the European oil and gas capital, with many of the major oil and gas companies and supplier companies having their Norwegian headquarters located there.Another significant export around the world is fish, while imports ...

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    Africa: Home-grown talent boosts all-cargo sector

    2015-10-21T08:12:03Z

    To date, there have been few African freighter operators on the continent, and almost no all-cargo carriers. That has started to change with the arrival of Astral Aviation in Kenya and Khuphuka Kings Airways in South Africa.Khuphuka, operating out of Durban King Shaka airport, started cargo services in early 2014 ...

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    An-124 takes Siemens rotor for a spin

    2015-03-24T09:15:09Z

    One of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 freighters moved a 50-ton rotor from Germany to Mumbai, India, for engineering and technology firm Siemens.The air carrier’s Engineering and Logistics Centre (ELC) assessed and approved a specially-designed transport skid to get the piece from Siemens' manufacturing plant in Muelheim, Germany, to Leipzig/Halle Airport, taking care ...

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    Volga-Dnepr completes 1,100th flight for oil and gas industry

    2015-03-21T09:37:37Z

    VOLGA-DNEPR Airlines has completed its 1,100th flight for customers in the oil and gas industry with this delivery of 45 tonnes of equipment from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Prestwick, Scotland.The cargo consisted of specialist equipment for a water-driven excavation system and auxiliary equipment for use in drilling operations ...

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    UTi opens Houston oil and gas facility

    2015-03-20T16:56:34Z

    UTi Worldwide has opened a new global hub and forwarding facility in the Houston, Texas area, with special capabilities centered on the energy sector.The global logistics company has stepped up its energy, mining and related projects (EMP) presence there because it understands the special requirements of oil and gas clients.“We ...

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    Volga-Dnepr: Still shouldering the burden

    2015-03-20T13:45:55Z

    There are “a lot of assumptions and a lot of speculation about what is happening and what is not happening, but we are a private airline and it has had no direct effect on us,” says Dennis Gliznoutsa, vice-president sales of Volga-Dnepr about the impact on its business of the ...

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    Panalpina goes into Africa again

    2015-03-20T13:39:01Z

    Freight forwarder Panalpina has opened new bases in Morocco and Kenya as part of a drive to expand its presence in Africa, a continent in which it was once a dominant player in the oil and gas project sector.Offices in Casablanca in Morocco and Nairobi, Kenya, and will spearhead a ...

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    Panalpina launches 'Brazil Wings' freighters to São Paulo

    2015-03-20T11:54:23Z

    Panalpina is adding a B747-400 freighter service to São Paulo, Brazil, aimed at manufacturers of heavy machinery and equipment for agriculture and mining.The direct service from US hub Huntsville to São Paulo, called Brazil Wings, has been designed for customers in the mid-west and in parts of the s south ...

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    ACS opens Houston office

    2015-03-05T11:15:26Z

    CHARTER broker Air Charter Service (ACS) is to open a new office in Houston, Texas to satisfy airfreight demand from oil and gas companies.It comes after the company’s North American operations grew by nearly a third last year.“A large part of that growth was on the cargo side of the ...