Services from Cairo ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
![Photo: EMS-Fehn Group](typo3temp/_processed_/d/9/csm_ITJ_2024_05-08_S20_03_ea5b8d34f1.jpg)
Good base for business in the Middle East and North Africa. Not every corner of the Middle East is on fire, as is evidenced by the founding in Egypt of EFG Logistics Services, a subsidiary of Germany’s EMS-Fehn Group. A number of players anticipate good market opportunities in... more
25 locos in three years ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
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European locomotive technology is helping to improve the rail transport situation in New York and New Jersey. Universal Transport, a subsidiary of Gruber Logistics, transported Alstom engines across the Atlantic Ocean from a plant in Kassel (Germany). more
Looking to Africa ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
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Two new partners bridge continental divide. BigMove, an alliance of medium-sized heavylift logistics enterprises, is looking to gain a foothold in Africa. To this end it has added a new partner for collaborative efforts to its network – Jonmoore International Limited,... more
Max didn’t go mad; he just did his job ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
![Photo: Samuel Amsler](typo3temp/_processed_/7/8/csm_ITJ_2021_17-18_S17_HL_6b0d68e9a6.jpg)
The route-planning process is the be-all and end-all for any overland heavylift transport. The choice of the right vehicle comes next. The company Samuel Amsler deployed a Faymonville ‘Mega Max’ unit for its recent haulage of a 24 t steel container that was 20 m long. The... more
Fulfil the trust placed ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
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Is a boom set to rise from the crisis? Prudence is essential, Christophe Grammare, AAL Shipping’s commercial director, told Christian Doepgen, for shippers expect regularity and dependability. AAL is developing liner services to fulfil the trust placed in the carrier. more
Bundling forces in Brazil ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
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Intermarine, a heavylift operator with a strong presence in the Americas, above all, and its sister company SAL Heavy Lift, are set to operate jointly in Brazil from March. An experienced team will serve the promising market from a new São Paulo office. more
In and out of Hamburg and Lübeck ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
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Trans-Trading Hamburg, a member of the XLP network, recently shipped some locomotives from Bavaria to Finland via Lübeck. In January it had already handled three oversized turbines in Hamburg. The devil is often in the detail. more
A major project in the ice ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
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The Australian government is getting ever more interested in establishing an airfield in the Antarctic – where the ice isn’t quite as ‘eternal’ as is popularly believed, by the way. The protests of campaigners for the environment as well as of critics who doubt the... more
A drilling rig straight to the Caspian Sea ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
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Every project transport operation has its star player. This time it was an oil drilling rig, whose sections weighed in at 270 t. It was transferred to an inland barge by a ‘double-banking’ manoeuvre in just 24 hours. more
In orbit for 15 years ![](fileadmin/templates/img/Engl_Franz_Deu_ohne_Schloss.png)
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Project transport tasks for space flights are always demanding, on account of the sensitive cargo. A French and a Ukrainian firm recently teamed up with a US entity to ship a South Korean ‘Army Navy Air Force Satellite Information System’ unit (Anasis) to its launch pad. more