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Giovanni Marraffa: How One Truck Became an Italian Heavy Transport Success Story

Italy’s project logistics sector faces no shortage of challenges — aging infrastructure, permit delays, rising complexity and growing demand from the power and energy sector. In this episode of Project Cargo Professionals, Giovanni Marraffa reflects on the journey of a family business that began with a single truck in southern Italy and has grown into…

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What Wind Power Can Teach Project Logistics | Ruediger Fromm, Siemens Energy

Wind power is growing larger, more complex and more exposed to global disruption — and that is changing the role logistics plays in project delivery. In this episode of Project Cargo Professionals, Siemens Energy’s Ruediger Fromm explains why logistics can no longer be treated as an execution function. From turbine design and engineering through to…

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Carsten Wendt: The Rise of RoRo for Heavy Cargo & Making Green Shipping Transparent | Project Cargo Professionals

Wallenius Wilhelmsen has long been known as one of the world’s leading RoRo operators, but as Carsten Wendt explains in this episode of Project Cargo Professionals, the company is making a renewed push into breakbulk and project cargo at a time when global trade patterns, sourcing strategies and fleet deployment are rapidly evolving. Recorded in…

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Tina Benjamin-Lea: New Industries, New Thinking and the Need to Adapt | Project Cargo Professionals

Currently on assignment at Eli Lilly and Company, supporting the construction of a major pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Germany, Tina Benjamin-Lea joins Project Cargo Professionals for a wide-ranging discussion on how project logistics is evolving far beyond its traditional oil & gas roots. Tina’s conversation with host Luke King offers a rare shipper-side perspective from…

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Edgar Monteiro: Scaling LASO Across Europe & Beyond | Project Cargo Professionals

Edgar Monteiro joins Project Cargo Professionals for a riverside conversation in Porto about the rise of LASO Transportes from a Portuguese heavy transport specialist into an increasingly international project cargo player operating across Europe and Africa. In this episode of Voices of Breakbulk Europe, Strategy Director Edgar reflects on LASO’s rapid expansion into markets including…

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Martin Harren: Risk, Resilience and the Future of Heavy Lift Shipping

Martin Harren rarely gives interviews — so when the owner and CEO of the Harren Group (which includes SAL, SAL Intermarine and Combi Lift) sat down with Project Cargo Professionals in Bremen, it was an opportunity to hear directly from one of the sector’s most influential decision-makers. In this extended episode of Voices of Breakbulk…

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Sameer Parikh’s Final Interview: 35 Years Moving India’s Mega Projects

After 35 years in the project cargo and heavy lift industry, Sameer Parikh joins Project Cargo Professionals host Luke King for his final interview before retirement. Recorded live at Breakbulk Middle East, this conversation reflects on a remarkable career that helped shape some of the most complex logistics projects across India, the Middle East, and…

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Building Saudi Arabia’s Global Project Cargo Hub on the Red Sea | Lars Greiner, RSGT

Lars Greiner, CEO of the multipurpose business at Red Sea Gateway Terminal, joins Project Cargo Professionals to discuss Saudi Arabia’s rapid rise as one of the most important centres for global project cargo. With Vision 2030 mega-projects, mining, manufacturing, infrastructure and energy developments accelerating simultaneously, the Kingdom is driving unprecedented demand for breakbulk, heavy lift…

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Mohammad Jaber: A New Chapter With Combi Lift & Mapping the Future of Project Logistics

Mohammad Jaber left a career at the world’s biggest logistics firm to push himself into uncharted territory as CEO of Combi Lift Projects in the Middle East. In this episode of Voices of Breakbulk Middle East, host Luke King sits down with Mohammad to explore how project logistics in the region is evolving — and…

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Hareket’s Mustafa Şener: Building Heavy Projects With Personal Discipline

Mustafa Şener, executive board member at Hareket, joins Project Cargo Professionals for a wide-ranging conversation recorded in Dubai as part of our Voices of Breakbulk Middle East series. With more than two decades in global project logistics and heavy engineering, Mustafa offers a grounded, strategic view on where the sector is heading — from Türkiye’s…

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