Dear Project Cargo Specialists, 

Great partners are going on to join Overseas Project Cargo Association all around the world. Today it is our pleasure to announce you that PT. GLOBAL FREIGHT CONSOLIDATAMA is our new member from INDONESIA.

We are also pleased that Managing Director, Angela Ramli  & Senior Manager Operation and Business Development, Tan Bien Hui will be attending our coming Annual Meeting in Malaysia at 12,13,14 November 2015. The gathering will be a great opportunity to meet all OPCA partners. Please click here for full information on our event. We are looking forward to meet you all soon.

By their registration to the November meeting, now PT. GLOBAL FREIGHT CONSOLIDATAMA has the privilege of becoming OPCA member till September 2016. It would be our pleasure to serve our new agent for a long term cooperation in our group.  

COMPANY PROFILE 

PT Global Freight Consolidatama began its practice in Indonesia on 1989 as a branch of the Singapore-based Global Group. What started as a humble beginning to improve multiple-scale businesses’ supply chain grew into one of the most reliable logistics service provider in the country.

 Headquartered in the West of Jakarta, our dedicated team is continuously striving to serve our vast line of customers and working side by side in delivering their products into wherever it needs to go, efficiently and effectively.

 We move by the ‘going for customer delight’ principle and we are proud to keep the promise alive up until today. Be it live aquatics, electronics merchandise, retail apparel to large scale aviation spare parts, we are committed to excel your company into greater heights, for we believe good supply chain solution is the key to keep your business growing.

You can click here to download company profile of PT. Global Freight Consolidatama.

Original news was published on 01 September, 2015

Hansa Heavy Lift's vessel HHL Tyne has arrived at the Port of Duluth's Clure Public Marine Terminal carrying wind turbine components for the Thunder Spirit wind farm in North Dakota.

31 wind turbine blades, as well as nacelles, were loaded onboard HHL Tyne in Castellon, Spain and arrived at Duluth via the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway.

This is the fifth of seven shipments of Nordex wind energy equipment for the 107 MW farm to be offloaded at the Port of Duluth this summer, before being transported overland to Hettinger, North Dakota.

The wind energy project, under construction by Allete Clean Energy (ACE), will consist of 43 wind turbines and is scheduled for completion by December 2015.

*NEWS SOURCE

Original news was published on 21 August, 2015

Silk Way West has taken delivery of the third from an order of five Boeing 747-8 freighters.

The airline said its new freighter will perform flights to Singapore and Komatsu, Japan.

According to the contract with Boeing, Silk Way West will acquire two further 747-8 freighters from Boeing, with their arrival in Azerbaijan expected in the first half of 2016.

With the acquisition of new Boeing 747-8 freighters, Silk Way West expects to expand its air cargo business, the airline added.

*NEWS SOURCE

Congratulations GSN Freight Forwarding India Pvt Ltd.

We are very happy to share with you that our India member GSN FREIGHT FORWARDING PVT LTD has been certificated for ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System for providing 'Logistics Services' to their customers.

Hereby let us share with you that Mr. Malik Shariff already completed his registration for OPCA 2nd AGM KL, Malaysia.We are looking forward to meet you all in Kuala Lumpur.

Please click here to download last updated company profile of GSN Freight Forwarding India Pvt Ltd.

Original news was published on 19 August, 2015

Hansa Heavy Lift (HHL) successfully carried a shiploader weighing over 560 tonnes from Nantong, China to Portland, USA, for Sandvik Mining and Construction.

HHL vessel Richards Bay transported the shiploader measuring 36.50 m x 56.44 m x 31.50 m, discharging it at the Port of Portland where it was installed under the direction of Sandvik. 

"The biggest challenge was to lift the shiploader over the conveyor rail at the Port of Portland, whilst ensuring neither sustained damaged," said Gareth Hamer, head of cargo management for HHL Americas.

The operation took a total of five days. HHL required the use of three lifting beams to manoeuvre the shiploader, as it only had lifting trunnions on one side. The size of the cargo and narrow width of the pier meant that the third lifting beam had to be lowered onto a barge after the cargo had been discharged.

The transportation was completed safely and on time, HHL chief commercial officer Joerg Roehl stated.

*NEWS SOURCE

Dear Project Cargo Specialists, 

Very Professional agents are going on to join Overseas Project Cargo Association all around the world. Today we are very happy to announce you that INTEGRAL CHILE S.A. has joined among us from CHILE.

We are also pleased that CEO, Dalia Cordova  & Projects Manager, Maria Luz Carreno will be attending our coming Annual Meeting in Malaysia at 12,13,14 November 2015. The gathering will be a great opportunity to meet all OPCA partners. Please click here for full information on our event. We are looking forward to meet you all soon.

By their registration to the November meeting, now INTEGRAL CHILE S.A. has the privilege of becoming OPCA member till August 2016. It would be our pleasure to serve our new agent for a long term cooperation in our group.  

INTEGRAL CHILE S.A.    
ADDRESS: Apoquindo 6433 Oficina 214, Las Condes,7570014 Santiago, Chile 
CONTACTS: Dalia Cordova / CEO
Maria Luz Carreno / Projects Manager 
TEL: +56 2 2430 2430 
WEB: www.integralchile.com 

COMPANY PROFILE 

Integral Chile S.A. is a Logistics and Transport Engineering Company. They have high qualified personnel that permanently update their technological knowledge, also regularly update hardware and software to meet all user needs and demands. They focus in sales and customer satisfaction.

Services with added value

- Integrated Logistics
- Consulting
- Warehousing and Inventory Management
- Customs Services
- Grupage, Consolidation, Pallets, Packing and Labeling
- Distribution (at origin and destination)
- Online Tracking
- Door to Door service
- DDP-DDU service                           

Original news was published on 17 August, 2015

The Port of Setúbal is looking to develop one or two new areas.

The Portuguese Port of Setúbal is soliciting expressions of interest in the international market to develop one or two new port areas.

The first, in the central area of the port, located between the ro-ro terminal and the Sapec terminal, offers the potential to develop 1900m on new quays in three phases, with a final capacity for 1.5M TEU/year of shortsea and feeder traffic, on  top of the existing port capacity for 0.5M TEU.

The second, known as the "Blue Atlantic" project, envisages construction of 800m of new quay between the Alstom Terminal and the Trem Naval, with the possibility of developing a major new industrial and logistics park adjacent to SapecBay.   

*NEWS SOURCE

Original news was published on 14 August, 2015

U.S. carrier and container terminal operator Matson, Inc. has taken delivery of a new 65-ton gantry crane to replace one half its size at the company’s Kodiak Terminal in Alaska.

Standing more than 340 feet tall at its peak with a boom spanning 164 feet, Matson’s new crane is the largest in Alaska, capable of lifting loads up to 60 feet long and weighing up to 145,000 pounds.

The crane is electrically powered crane and will use fly wheel technology to capture, store and then return power as needed.

The USD 10 million giant will run on electricity provided by the Kodiak Electric Association, which uses wind and water turbines to generate 99.9 percent of its power.

*NEWS SOURCE

Original news was published on 14 August, 2015

Volga-Dnepr flew two simultaneous IL-76-90VD freighter flights carrying urgently required drilling equipment from Belgium to Kuwait.

The 16-tonne cargoes were loaded at Liege Airport; each piece was loaded into the hold of their respective freighter under their own power, using the aircraft's onboard ramp.

"As the cargo was required in Kuwait urgently, we operated two flights to ensure all of the drilling equipment arrived at the same time as opposed to a single aircraft taking longer to conduct both deliveries in sequence," stated Rinat Akhmetov, sales executive at Volga-Dnepr UK.

The flight was requested by German logistics concern Karpeles Flight Services, a subsidiary of Schenker.

*NEWS SOURCE

Original news was published on 11 August, 2015

EGYPT's Suez Canal Container Terminal is boosting annual throughput capacity to 5.4 million TEU as a direct result of expanding the key waterway for world trade, with the expansion of the main APM Terminal by adding four super postpanamax cranes at a cost of US$42 million and scheduled for delivery in mid-2016. 

The new cranes will raise the total number of cranes at the SCCT facility to 24, making it the busiest terminal in the Mediterranean region, surpassing the APM Terminals Algeciras that handled 3.5 million TEU in 2014, Seatrade Maritime News reported.

The new 52-metre high ship to shore cranes will have a reach of 72 metres, allowing them to handle containerships of up to 18,000 TEU.

"The expanded Suez Canal will play an even greater role as a gateway of global trade," said APMT chief operations officer Jeff De Best. 

"The canal expansion, completed in just one year, is a great achievement for the people of Egypt, and we are hopeful that the planned construction of more infrastructure projects will enable even faster canal cargo volume growth and economic progress."

*NEWS SOURCE