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European transport and logistics firm Van der Vlist has completed a 10-week project to deliver a Terex TR100 rigid dump truck from the factory in Motherwell, Scotland, to its final destination in Callas, southern France

ALS (Freight Management Nederland) BV’s Moerdijk Ocean Project team organised the shipment of a 440 tonne sugar refining plant from Antwerp in Belgium to Bahrain in the Middle East

Saudi Arabia’s Almajdouie Group has been awarded the Guinness World Record for “heaviest item moved by road freight”

Multitrade Spain handled the transfer of 336 railcars from train manufacturer CAF in Spain to Caracas, Venezuela

Lift and Shift has carried out the transport and load out of 20 components for the rebuilt Mumbai High North Offshore Platform. The India-based lifting and transport specialist spent two years planning the project

EU funding will support transport infrastructure developments throughout Europe

Transport concessions and international footprint will help insulate sector in 2012, but outlook remains weak

ALE used its 20 tonne per square metre ALE 300 barge for the first time during the transport of two 830 tonne de-methaniser vessels in the UAE

Turkish haulage operator Çaba transported a 600 tonne amine absorber unit 1,300 km across the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan to a flue gas desulphurisation plant

UK contractor Mace confirmed as leader of consortium to construct London's new cable car system with work starting later this year.

The Wagenborg Stevedoring yard in Eemshaven, Netherlands is a busy spot these days, being the logistical centre for a number of offshore wind parks. The preassembly of wind turbine components is also carried out at the site

India-based Lift & Shift was challenged with carrying what it says is the longest column to be transported over sea and land in the country.

Austrian crane and transport specialist Prangl used an all terrain crane to install a cable car station more than 2,000 metres above sea level

Breakthrough in the longest railway tunnel in the world, the Gotthard in Switzerland, has taken place.

BAM Balfour Beatty consortium named preferred bidder for the N17/N18 Gort to Tuam PPP Scheme in Ireland by the National Roads Authority.

Berard Transportation, based in Louisiana, USA transported two titan oil platform superstructures, weighing 3,500 and 4,000 tonnes, with millimetres to spare

ALE transported reactors, weighing up to 1,457 tonnes, from Italy to the Sines refinery in Portugal. A 1,800 tonne capacity self-geared vessel was used to move the reactors before they were loaded on to 68 axle lines of self-propelled modular transporter (SPMT) and transferred to the refinery 7 km from the harbour

CATT from Tunisia transported a 153 tonne, 16 x 7 m ferrule from the port of Sousse to the Polysius cement plant at Rouisset-Kairouan

Hindustan Cargo Ltd. and Rolldock Shipping BV in the Netherlands set their sights on a submarine that needed moving from Eastern Naval Command, Vishakapatnam, India to Severodvinsk in Russia for refurbishment

Maxlines Forwarder Co. Ltd in Taiwan, moved a 10 tonne, 4.5 m high statue of the sitting Buddha Maitreya from the Port of Keelung in Taiwan to Belawan Port in Indonesia