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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  LNG Canada Ships First LNG From Kitimat Terminal

  LNG CanadaLNG Canada, Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada

  Starts 07/01/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoThe first cargo, loaded aboard the GasLog Glasgow, left Kitimat for Asia on 1 July 2025 (Shell's^[2] 'First cargo leaves LNG Canada' release, with CBC^[3] and The Globe and Mail reporting the departure the same day). The previous date of 23 June 2025 was the announcement of first production, with cargo loading still ahead of it.

  Canada's first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal, built by a Shell-led joint venture in Kitimat, British Columbia, produced and shipped its first LNG cargo in 2025.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Gorona del Viento Hydro-Wind Plant Opens on El Hierro

  Gorona del Viento El HierroEl Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain

  Starts 06/27/2014CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE12.2 years agoRenewable-energy trade coverage and the plant operator's own materials date the Gorona del Viento^[2] inauguration to 27 June 2014.

  El Hierro's Gorona del Viento plant, combining five wind turbines with a pumped-hydro reservoir, was inaugurated to make the smallest Canary Island the first in the world able to run entirely on renewable energy. Excess wind power pumps water uphill for use when the wind drops.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Meyer Werft Delivers the AIDAnova, the World's First LNG-Powered Cruise Ship

  Meyer Werft Shipyard, Industriegebiet Süd, Papenburg, GermanyMeyer Werft

  

  Starts 12/12/2018CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.8 years agoMeyer Werft’s^[2] own press release "AIDAnova handed over to AIDA Cruises" gives 12 December 2018 as the delivery date, corroborated by Seatrade Cruise^[3] News.

  Meyer Werft handed over the AIDAnova, built at its Papenburg shipyard as the world's first cruise ship able to run on liquefied natural gas, to AIDA Cruises. The 337-metre ship carries up to 6,600 passengers and was assembled from roughly 15 million individual parts.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Liebherr Debuts the LTM 11200-9.1, the Longest Telescopic Boom Crane

  Messe Munchen, Am Messesee 2, 81829 Munich, GermanyLiebherr

  

  Starts 04/23/2007ESTIMATED62% CONFIDENCE19.4 years agoLiebherr^[3] and Guinness World Records^[4] date the LTM 11200-9.1's public debut to bauma 2007 (Munich, 23-29 April 2007); no more precise reveal date within the fair is documented, so the pin uses the fair's opening day.

  Liebherr unveils the LTM 11200-9.1 mobile crane at bauma 2007 in Munich, boasting a 100-metre telescopic boom and a 1,200-tonne lift capacity, the longest telescopic boom of any crane.

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• Aerospace09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Gilmour Space Test-Fires Record Rocket Engine on the Gold Coast

  Yatala, Queensland, AustraliaGilmour Space Technologies

  

  Starts 01/11/2022CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE4.7 years agoGilmour Space's own announcement (via its X/Twitter post and media release) states the record 110kN, 75-second engine test took place on 11 January 2022.^[1]

  Gilmour Space Technologies test-fired the largest and most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia, a 75-second, 110-kilonewton hybrid-engine burn ahead of its Eris orbital rocket program.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Le Commandant Charcot Becomes First LNG-Powered Ship to Reach the North Pole

  Geographic North Pole, Arctic OceanPonant

  

  Starts 09/06/2021CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.0 years agoConfirmed by Cruise Industry News^[4] and Seatrade Cruise^[2], which both report Le Commandant Charcot reached the Geographic North Pole on 6 September 2021.

  Ponant's hybrid-electric icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot reached the Geographic North Pole on 6 September 2021, the first French vessel and the first LNG-propelled ship ever to do so.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  ExxonMobil Joins Hebron's Topsides to Its Gravity Base Structure at Bull Arm

  ExxonMobil·…Bull Arm, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

  12/13/2016 - 12/14/2016CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE9.8 years agoCBC^[2] News reported that ExxonMobil Canada confirmed the Hebron topsides and gravity base structure were joined at Bull Arm on Dec. 13-14, 2016.

  ExxonMobil Canada's Hebron project reached a major construction milestone when the platform's topsides were joined to its concrete gravity base structure at the Bull Arm fabrication site in Newfoundland. Italian heavy-lift specialist Fagioli had earlier installed the topsides' largest modules, including a 45,000-tonne utilities process module shipped from South Korea.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Volvo Unveils the A60H, Its Largest Articulated Hauler, at Bauma

  Messe München, Am Messesee 2, 81829 Munich, GermanyVolvo Construction Equipment

  

  Starts 04/11/2016ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCE10.4 years agoTrade press (Equipment World, For Construction Pros^[7]) dates the A60H's launch to Bauma 2016 in Munich (11-17 April 2016); no more precise reveal date within the fair is documented, so the pin uses the fair's opening day.

  Volvo Construction Equipment unveiled the A60H, its largest-ever articulated hauler at 60 tons capacity, at the Bauma trade fair in Munich. The launch marked the 50th anniversary of Volvo's first articulated hauler, 1966's 'Gravel Charlie.'

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Scheuerle Debuts the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter

  Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik, Pfedelbach, GermanyScheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik

  

  01/01/1983 - 12/31/1983ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE43.7 years agoTII Group’s^[3] own "an invention turns 40" retrospective names 1983 as the year Scheuerle developed and launched the SPMT, but gives no specific day.

  German heavy-vehicle maker Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik developed and launched the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT), the modular, multi-axle hauler that became the industry standard for moving exceptionally heavy loads. Its name is now used generically across the heavy-transport industry.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Sinovel Installs China's First 5-Megawatt Offshore Wind Turbine at Donghai Bridge

  Sinovel Wind GroupDonghai Bridge Offshore Wind Farm, East China Sea, Shanghai, China

  Starts 09/06/2011CONFIRMED72% CONFIDENCE15.0 years agoThe documentary's own dated footage places the SL5000's installation on the evening of September 6, 2011 beside the Donghai Bridge, and power-technology.com^[2]'s independent project profile of the Shanghai Dong Hai Bridge wind farm separately confirms a single Sinovel SL5000 5MW turbine as the farm's Phase IIB.

  Sinovel completed installation of the SL5000, China's first independently developed 5-megawatt offshore wind turbine, as a single demonstration unit at the Donghai Bridge wind farm near Shanghai. Two of China's largest crane vessels assembled the 150-meter-tall machine through the region's typhoon season.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  MSC Meraviglia Megaship Delivered at Saint-Nazaire Shipyard

  Saint-Nazaire, FranceChantiers de l'Atlantique

  

  Starts 05/31/2017CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE9.3 years agoMSC Cruises' own press release states the Meraviglia was delivered and came into service on 31 May 2017 ("MSC CRUISES CELEBRATES THE COMING INTO SERVICE OF MSC MERAVIGLIA").^[1]

  MSC Cruises took delivery of the 315-metre, 171,598-tonne MSC Meraviglia from the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, one of the largest cruise ships ever built, carrying more than 5,700 guests.

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• Mining09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Polymetal Installs Its Record 1,100-Tonne Gold Autoclave at Amursk

  Amursk, Khabarovsk Krai, RussiaPolymetal International

  

  Starts 08/17/2020CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE6.1 years agoInternational Mining reported on 17 August 2020 that Polymetal's 1,100-tonne autoclave vessel had been installed on schedule at the Amursk POX-2 site.^[1]

  Belgian engineering firm Coek Engineering built the world's largest gold-processing autoclave, a 1,100-tonne titanium-lined pressure vessel, and shipped it 25,000 km from Antwerp to Polymetal's Amursk POX-2 plant in Russia's Far East. The vessel was installed on schedule in August 2020.

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