Breakbulk News

Port CEO Brandy Christian called the agreement a “win-win”.

“This collaboration will intensify Bolloré Logistics' development in the Middle East.”

Harren & Partner are aiming for “light-touch” integration with SAL Heavy Lift.

Petrochemical investment in the US Gulf is a rare bright spot in a generally weak global breakbulk market.

Italian heavy hauler Fagioli used trucks, barges, and ships to move sections of the world’s third-largest tunnel boring machine from Germany to Italy.

The trust manager of the company said it had sought approval to remove its shares in April.

The project is capable of handling cargo, passenger ferries, and fishing vessels.

Heavy-lift and project carriers are developing a new market that a few years ago would have been unthinkable — the Northern Sea Route to Russia’s frigid Arctic region.

Yacht transportation is a niche market for the breakbulk and heavy-lift sector.

What made the move unusual was the challenge presented by the Dames Point Bridge.

Project shippers and carriers hope the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a political football for years, can get off the sidelines soon.

Steel accounts for 9.5 percent of US breakbulk volumes by dollar value, and is a primary commodity at ports including Houston; New Orleans; Mobile; Brownsville, Texas; and on the Delaware River.

The addition of The Steelman Companies follows mergers with Big Freight Systems and Schilli Companies, pushing Daseke revenue closer to $1 billion.

Carriers can lose up to 16 hours as vessels wait to be refueled.

Renovation of the port’s low-water ro-ro dock follows the completion in 2016 of a two-year, $13 million rebuilding of the main dock at the Tulsa-Catoosa port.

Private investment in that area totals $50 billion — "with a B."

The long-depressed market for multipurpose vessel operators is starting to improve.

The new service will join a US Gulf-West Africa service that UAL has operated for 25 years.

The East Hope Group is a formidable aluminium producer, with some 150 subsidiaries and 24,000 employees.

The Port of Los Angeles is the US West Coast gateway for Chilean fruit.

The company said vessels operations, in particular its ship management services, are “running stable."

With the rebuilding of Berth 9, Port Manatee has five berths that can handle loads of up to 1,000 pounds per square foot.

Rickmers Group filed for insolvency last week.

The collusion increased prices for the country’s growing auto industry between 2009 and 2012.

Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has completed the lifting and positioning of the two largest units of an $8 billion Sasol ethane cracker and related plants that will add to exports of polyethylene resins from the US Gulf region.

“We can’t control the economy worldwide, but we can grow our market share in a down world economy.”

The agreement calls for an investigation into the possibility of establishing a rail connection between the two ports.

“The aim of the executive board is to work out a new restructuring solution together with creditors and making use of the tools of insolvency laws.”

The first phase is expected to open in two years.

HSH Nordbank has rejected further negotiations over the restructuring.

The Peking, built by Blohm + Voss in 1911, was one of the legendary "Flying P-Liners" of the German shipping company F. Laeisz.

The legislation was sought by resin exporters.

The launch of the new BBC Euro-Gulf Express Line follows BBC’s addition this month of westbound capacity on its Mediterranean-America service.

The deal follows the official adoption earlier this year of an ambitious development plan for the port.

Finnlines’ extended its four-year run of record results.

Rickmers urged all creditors to abstain from actions that may jeopardize or delay the orderly wind-up of the trust.

The court ordered bondholder Peter Kwok Kian Tow and Rickmers Maritime to exchange affidavits.

“The likely outcome of this situation, if not resolved, is liens and vessel arrests.”

Until now, Mammoet has worked in the region on a project basis.

US Customs and Border Protection sided with the oil and gas industry over Jones Act supporters in the first major test of how the act’s US-flag shipping requirements will be interpreted under the Trump administration.