Great partners are going on to join Overseas Project Cargo Association all around the world. Today it is our pleasure to share with you that OTIM S.R.L. joined our group from ITALY.

We are also pleased that Managing Director, Riccardo Cutillo will be attending our coming Annual Meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates at 26, 27, 28 October 2016. The gathering will be a great opportunity to meet all OPCA partners. Please click here for full information on our event.

Let's welcome our new agent on board of Overseas Project Cargo Association !

OTIM S.R.L.
ADDRESS:Via di Francia, 28 Genova 16149, Italy
CONTACT:Riccardo Cutillo / Managing Director
TEL:+39 010 6032203
FAX:+39 010 4693329
WEB:www.otim.net

Company Profile
Otim, International Freight Forwarders, was born in 1948 predominantly in the field of sea and air freight, through the personal experience of our founding Fathers.

The organization continued its growth throughout the years by adding Customers of utmost importance to the already satisfied Customers base. So much so that today, Otim is proud to work for some of the largest Italian and foreign manufactures.

Through the course of the years, Otim strengthened its presence in all the foreign markets with particularly heavy concentration in the markets of Unites States of America and The People's Republic of China. In addition, Otim has placed a network of partners and agents throughout all the major world ports that are not only financially strong but also highly experienced. 
Our strength is based upon an organization consisting of highly specialized departments. Such departments report to General Operation Management, but enjoy freedom and flexibility in order to help our Customers to implement their projects successfully.

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Original news was published on 06 September, 2016

Project cargo firm ALE has completed initial load testing and rigging for its AL.SK350 heavy-lift crane.

The crane is the world’s largest capacity land-based crane and will be used for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) module integration project in Brazil.

“Now we have completed our final testing, we are looking forward to the first lifts,” said Cees Segeren, AL.SK350 design team member.

ALE will use the AL.SK350 crane to lift and install about 40 modules onto the P-74 FPSO vessel in the South of Brazil. The crane features load moment capacity of 354,000 tonne-meters and a 130-meter-long A-frame design.

Headquartered in Staffordshire in the UK, ALE provides heavy-lift services around the world. The firm has more than 30 regional offices and focuses on heavy-lift projects in oil and gas, civil, nuclear, offshore, renewables, petrochemical, ports, marine, minerals and metals and mining.

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This notification is for your kind attention from one of OPCA Egypt members: First Global Logistics (S.A.E)

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Pls note our offices in Egypt will close from Sunday 11/09/2016 until Thursday 15/09/2016 due to Eid Al Adha Holidays. We will resume to work on Saturday 17/09/2016.

Best Regards
Khaled Sabry/Chairman
First Global Logistics (S.A.E)
95, Avenue 26 july El Selsela Tower
Alzarita, Alexandria, Egypt
Tel:+2 03  4835267
Fax:+2 03  4800779
Mob:+2 122 2180969
www.firstgloballogistics.com
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New partners are going on to join Overseas Project Cargo Association all around the world. Today it is our pleasure to share with you that EUROPRIM SHIPPING SRL joined our group from ROMANIA.

Let's welcome our new agent on board of Overseas Project Cargo Association !

EUROPRIM SHIPPING SRL
ADDRESS :202, Splaiul Independentei Str., Bucharest 060021, Romania
CONTACTS:Bogdan Serbaniuc / Executive Director
Augustin Muller / General Manager
TEL:0040214109033
FAX:0040214100608
WEB:www.europrim.ro

COMPANY PROFILE
EUROPRIM is a fully privately owned company, whose main activity is international transportation of goods.

Their advanced logistics, their qualified personnel and collaborators are at your disposal 24 hours a day, so that together they can perform the most competitive and most efficient activity in due time.

Their range of activity includes both domestic and international transportation of goods (by full loaded or partial trucks), the international transportation being carried out in strict compliance with the provisions of CMR Convention, TIR Convention, or of the provisions of the Transit Convention, as applicable, and respectively with The General Conditions regarding the operations of the forwarding agents drawn up the Union of the Forwarding Companies of Romania.

The vehicles they have available include various means of transportations: tarpaulin vehicles (of multiple volumes and sizes), isothermal trucks, refrigerating trucks, equipped for carriage of hangers, as well as regular trucks, ADR trucks for carriage of hazardous goods.

The drives of these vehicles are professionally and ethically trained.

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Original news was published on 05 September, 2016

The government of the Republic of Congo has called for expressions of interest from firms to develop the Dolisie dry port project.

The project will facilitate breakbulk handling and is part of the Libreville-Brazzaville-Pointe Noire Corridor, which will improve transport links in the region.

The government is looking for firms to carry out more detailed study following €80 million funding for feasibility analysis from the African Development Bank.

“The Dolisie section of the corridor in Niari Province of southwestern Congo is seen as the missing link. A dry port is also planned for Ndendé in Gabon. The funds will also cover the cost of development of the Ndendé-Doussala-Dolisie road,” a spokesperson for analyst firm Africa House said.

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Original news was published on 31 August, 2016

The first liquefied natural gas filling station for heavy-duty cargo vehicles in Finland has opened at Helsinki’s Vuosaari Harbor.

The station is part of a country-wide strategy to switch to gas for road transportation, and it is expected to drive wider use of LNG as a fuel for breakbulk and project cargo operators.

“We find that opening an LNG filling station here where we have a major hub for truck traffic in Southern Finland is a perfectly natural move. We’re happy to be involved in efforts to enable new openings for environmentally sound technology,” said Jukka Kallio, director of Vuosaari Harbor.

The station has been developed by energy firm Gasum and will be followed by similar facilities at Turku in the third quarter of 2016, and Jyväskylä and Vantaa in 2017.

“The demand for environmentally friendly transport services is increasing. The growing supply of gas-fueled vehicles and the new filling stations will further improve the opportunities to switch to road fuel gases,”  said Jussi Vainikka, Business Development Manager at Gasum.

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Original news was published on 30 August, 2016

Construction crews using a specially designed cable-crane mechanism Aug. 21 lifted and lowered into place the first of 66 prefabricated deck sections for a new suspension bridge under construction on the Yangtze River in Hubei Province.

The lifting of the first, 221-ton “steel box girder” marked a major step forward for the project to build the longest-span suspension bridge across the upper Yangtze at Gaoxiapinghu, near Three Gorges Dam, according to a Ministry of Transportation report.

Each, 16-meter-by-32 meter bridge deck section is being delivered to the site by river barge and then lifted by crane about 150 meters into the air before being fitted to the bridge deck. The crane is suspended and can move on cables strung between the bridge’s two towers.

The lifting operation for the first section took seven hours, the report said. The entire operation, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, will altogether require lifting 14,500 tons of deck sections from barge to bridge.

The suspension bridge is part of an ongoing effort to improve the highway network in the Chongqing region as well as boost the upper Yangtze region’s economy.

*NEWS SOURCE

This notification is for your kind attention from one of Indonesia members: PT.  GEOFREIGHT INDONESIA

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Dear Sir/Mam,

Due to technical problem in our domain @geofreight.co we changed our domain email to @geo-freight.com

Please note my email address has now been changed to be @geo-freight.com

We thank you for your attention and apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Best Regards,
Adji Bhirowo
Managing Director

PT.Geofreight Indonesia
Tifa Building, 4th floor, Suite 402A
Jl.Kuningan Barat 26,
Jakarta 12710, Indonesia
Phone:  +(62)(21) 52922272
Mobile: +(62)(81) 511145700
Mobile: +(62)(81) 1145700
Email: *Kindly login to see email address of Mr.Adji Bhirowo.
Website: www.geo-freight.com

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Original news was published on 29 August, 2016

Port operator Abu Dhabi Ports is to carry out major expansion of the Khalifa Port in the U.A.E. to expand capacity for breakbulk and container handling.

The initial phase of the project has started with Abu Dhabi Ports having signed a contract with the National Marine Dredging Co. to begin preparatory work on channel dredging. The final construction will include an additional 1,000 meters of quay wall to the port and deepening of the main channel and basin to 18 meters.

“This ambitious expansion is crucial to ensuring Abu Dhabi remains a global trade and investment hub as well as supporting our local industries. We are future proofing our operations to ensure we can continue to attract the world’s leading operators to use our facilities that will see capesize vessels, the largest in the cargo industry, come directly into an Abu Dhabi port for the very first time,” said Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports.

The port is a major hub for breakbulk shipments in the region and the upgrade work is designed to boost heavy cargo traffic via the Emirate once it is complete in mid-2018.

*NEWS SOURCE

Original news was published on 25 August, 2016

Breakbulk specialist Mammoet is to provide heavy-lifting services for the expansion of an integrated petrochemical complex in Johore, Malaysia. The project includes the transportation and installation of new reactor vessels weighing up to 650 tonnes.

The reactor vessels measure more than 100 meters in height and installation will involve an specialized engineering solution to overcome bottlenecks caused by low pipe rack around the construction area in the existing petrochemical complex.

Mammoet will utilize one of its fleet of PTC 35 ring cranes with long reach and small footprint to lift the vessels over the pipe rack from a nearby road. The PTC 35 crane features lifting capacity of up to 1,600 tonnes.

“Mammoet was able to provide our client with a unique solution that would optimize the handling of heavy vessels. Less movements on site results in reduced risks, reduced costs and a faster completion, reducing the overall time-to-market for our client” said Roel Wesel, solutions manager at Mammoet APAC.

Headquartered in Schiedam, in the north of Holland, Mammoet  provides a range of services from transportation and logistics planning to heavy-lift and crane rental.

*NEWS SOURCE