project cargo

BelugaST fleet goes belly-up as Airbus closes cargo airline

Airbus has shut down its new for-hire cargo airline focused on transporting oversize shipments using the odd-shaped Beluga superfreighter because of self-described operational challenges and what appears to be weak demand for the service.

The aerospace manufacturer last week terminated Airbus Beluga Transport (AiBT), the specialized airfreight business introduced last March for hauling outsize cargo, and suspended BelugaST flights, Airbus confirmed in a statement. 

French business daily Les Echos...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/belugast-fleet-goes-belly-up-as-airbus-closes-cargo-airline

New logistics terminal opens along Texas Gulf Coast

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Project freight forwarder deugro announced it has opened a 96,775-square-foot operations and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/new-logistics-terminal-opens-along-texas-gulf-coast

Swire delivers to WA, sets up weekly Pacific service and protects endangered whales!

Pictured: a Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus). Photo credit: US NOAA.

It’s been a busy few weeks for the Swire shipping conglomerate!

Break bulk

First up, Swire Projects, a projects and heavy lift shipping services division of Swire Shipping, completed its first voyage to Western Australia carrying 88 Ore Cars (wagons) for resources company BHP.

Swire Projects used its 19,000-deadweight heavy lift multipurpose vessel, Johnnie Bryan, with lifting capacity of up to 480 mts, to carry the cargo...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/swire-delivers-to-wa-sets-up-weekly-pacific-service-and-protects-endangered-whales/

Airbus markets specialized Beluga super freighter to outsiders

A funky bow-shaped Airbus Beluga jet lands at airport on a bright day.

The odd-looking super transport aircraft with a bulbous forehead long used by Airbus to ferry aircraft sections between manufacturing and assembly plants is increasingly being made available to commercial customers with outsized freight shipments, company officials said Monday.

An Airbus Beluga ST over the weekend delivered an Airbus-built Hotbird 13G satellite for Eutelsat to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, hours after the twin telecom satellite was successfully launched by...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/airbus-markets-specialized-beluga-super-freighter-to-outside-customers

Airbus launches cargo airline with whale-shaped super transporter

Funky Airbus Beluga cargo jet soars into the air, view from below

Airbus said Tuesday it is commercializing its in-house fleet of Beluga supersize jets used to transport large aircraft components between manufacturing sites to offer logistics companies and other organizations airlift for outsized shipments.

The iconic planes are designed in the image of the beluga whale, which has a distinctive bulbous forehead.

The new service — Airbus Beluga Transport — will serve commercial customers with large cargo transport needs in a variety of sectors, including space,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/airbus-launches-cargo-airline-with-whale-shaped-super-transporter

Samskip turns its airfreight focus onto project logistics as fish fail to fly

Samskip is pivoting its air freight business to take advantage of greater resilience in the project market and the expertise of its Bremen-based breakbulk arm.
The asset-owning logistics company, which specialises in northern Europe, set up an air freight division last year and began offering sea-air services from Scandic and island countries using its ships to bring goods to Amsterdam, for onward flights.
While thus far its sea-air product has specialised in …

The post Samskip turns its...

https://theloadstar.com/samskip-turns-its-airfreight-focus-onto-project-logistics-as-fish-fail-to-fly/

James Webb Telescope’s path to deep space goes through Panama Canal

A blue cargo ship prepares to dock at a small river port.

The James Webb Telescope that NASA plans to launch on Christmas day will travel about 1 million miles into orbit, where it will look into deep space in hopes of solving mysteries about the origins of the cosmos. The most expensive, complex space observatory ever built has already taken a 5,800-mile terrestrial trip by truck and vessel, through the Panama Canal, to the launch site on the northeastern coast of South America under some of the most stringent requirements the logistics industry has...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/james-webb-telescopes-path-to-deep-space-goes-through-panama-canal

Port of New Orleans sees bump in breakbulk cargo

The Port of New Orleans reported a 4% year-over-year increase in breakbulk cargo volume in May, fueled by shipments of rubber, steel and heavy-lift/project cargo.

The port handled 147,921 tons of breakbulk cargo for the month, compared to 141,869 tons in May 2020.

New Orleans also handled 50,801 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in May, a 0.1% decrease compared to the same period last year. 

The port handled 11,552 Class I railcar switches in May, a 21% increase year-over-year. The port handles...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-of-new-orleans-sees-bump-in-breakbulk-cargo

Chipolbrok enters the Australia trades; Quay Shipping appointed as agent

Pictured: a Chipobrok-branded multi-purpose vessel at berth. Picture supplied by Quay Shipping.

Break-bulk, project cargo and heavy lift specialist Chipolbrok will enter the Australia trade, according to Brisbane-based Quay Shipping, which has been appointed as the company’s exclusive agent.

Quay reports that Chipolbrok, and subsidiary HongFa Shipping, own and operate a fleet on modern multipurpose, geared, semi-container triple-deckers of nearly one million deadweight. The ships have a total...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/chipolbrok-enters-the-australia-trades-quay-shipping-appointed-as-agent/

Heavy Lift/Project shipping: flexible/versatile is what we do

Loading of a Gottwald Mobile Harbour Crane onto the BBC Xingang.
Credit: James Elsby/The Photo Pitch; supplied by BBC Chartering

Editor’s note: Ulrich Ulrichs, Chief Executive Officer, BBC Chartering GmbH & Co. KG writes about the company’s experiences last year. This story, below, was first published in the Shipping Australia Annual Review 2020.

Pictured: Ulrich Ulrichs, Chief Executive Officer, BBC Chartering GmbH & Co. KG;
Photo supplied by BBC Chartering

Ocean shipping is one of the oldest...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/heavy-lift-project-shipping-flexible-versatile-is-what-we-do/

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