09.10.2025

Modular, customer-oriented

Whether it be for the offshore wind industry, defence equipment or mechanical engineering – Goldhofer supplies transport solutions for the heavyweights of the economy. In Rotterdam Robert Steinhauser explained to Andreas Haug how...
23.09.2024

China–Cuxhaven

‘Super-B-class’ vessels break records. AAL Shipping, founded in the Netherlands 29 years ago and based in Singapore since 2009, recently broke records with the maiden voyage of the AAL Limassol from Asia to Europe. AAL Shipping’s...
23.09.2024

The road to success in the USA

Goldhofer equipment masters three challenging transport tasks. Buckingham Heavy Transport, a US company that focuses on oversized and heavylift transport operations, recently completed three projects with equipment from a key...
16.09.2024

Ready for the next revolution

Investments and a new blade-turning device. The specialist supplier Ematec, which is based in Memmingerberg (Germany), is one of the world’s leading suppliers of lifting equipment for the wind-power industry. The company recently...
10.10.2023

25 locos in three years

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...
26.04.2021

Max didn’t go mad; he just did his job

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...
22.04.2021

Fulfil the trust placed

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...
08.03.2021

Bundling forces in Brazil

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...
30.09.2020

In orbit for 15 years

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...
28.09.2020

A heavy anniversary

The gateway in Burns Harbor is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a rather special project. Hundreds of elements needed for the construction of a power station transited through the hub on the southern shore of Lake Michigan.
18.05.2020

Markets & timing

At the beginning of this year AAL started a monthly Europe–Middle East–­India–Far East service. Christian Doepgen spoke to Eike Muentz, general manager for Europe, and Jan-Henrik Heyken, senior chartering manager for Europe.
14.05.2020

Maghreb gateway still open

It’s always best to consult an expert if you want to know about developments in a regionally specialised market such as the ones in the Maghreb. Tandem Group founder and owner Habib Bouricha, who has been operating since almost...
08.05.2020

Bridging the river Amur

Livo Logistics and Topline Express Logistics teamed up to mutually support each other in northeastern China recently, where ten cranes had to cross the border from China into Russia. An unseasonable winter storm in spring was a...
04.05.2020

Ready to go and flexible

The way airfreight is currently gasping for capacities pro­bably causes stressful moments for many a logistician today – all the more so if they have to shift particularly large or heavy consignments. ITJ editor Andreas Haug...
30.04.2020

From Ravenna to Rotterdam

The company Briese Chartering recently transported eight 74 m pylons weighing 282 t each from the Adriatic to the North Sea. The world’s largest crane ship took over the consignments there and took them to their final destination...
07.02.2020

25 years – 100,000s of tonnes

Kita Logistics is celebrating an anniversary, with CEO Emre Eldener busy driving forward the development of the Turkish logistics company. The firm plans to grow again in the project cargo logistics segment this year, having...
20.09.2019

Thinking in different scenarios

Holleman Romania added a broad range of subsidiaries to its core market in Romania a long time ago, with branches in Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine and Moldova. CEO George Nita told the ITJ’s Christian Doepgen recently how...
20.09.2019

Gold and other assets

If you want to get precious gold out of the earth, then you need the right equipment. Bolloré Transport & Logistics transported some such equipment from the coast of Ghana to the hinterland of Bukina Faso on behalf of the firm...
18.09.2019

A gentle giant in Rostock

The cranes needed for heavylift operations are growing ever taller. At its Rostock production site Liebherr recently inaugurated its new TCC 78000 unit, designed to handle its own cranes. It will transfer units between the...
16.09.2019

Fresh winds for windmills

Many conditions have to be just right, and others might require improvement, in order for windmills to remain efficient and environmentfriendly. Flying wind turbines, designed to generate energy above the surface of the sea, are...
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