Container & Cargo Handling – Page 24

  • Pronto
    News

    Port call optimisation venture launches

    2019-08-09T16:40:00Z

    A new port company seeking to improve port call efficiency and help shipping companies reduce vessel emissions will offer a digital shipping app which optimises port call management.

  • white paper
    News

    White paper offers digitalisation guidance

    2019-08-06T15:35:00Z

    A new white paper seeks to show how sharing data will help ports work towards digital maturity and grow into smart ports.

  • Shoreham Port
    News

    First ports ‘Sector Safety Plan’ launched

    2019-07-03T10:09:00Z

    Port Skills and Safety (PSS), the collective body for Safety and Skills in UK ports, has launched the first ever ports Sector Safety Plan.

  • The Nemos research station is one of many initiatives underway at the port. Credit: Port of Ostend
    News

    Taking reinvention to the next level

    2019-06-05T16:43:00Z

    Ostend was hard hit by the loss of major ferry operations, but it came back from the loss and is driving for diversity. Felicity Landon reports on the port’s revitalised ambitions

  • Apps for GIS have become easier to use
    News

    Cross-port benefits of geospatial technology

    2019-06-05T16:41:00Z

    Modern GIS systems do not need to be restricted to just one or two experts in a port. Alex Hughes finds out who else can put geospatial data to good use

  • 2038
    News

    2038: Humans vs. automation

    2019-05-23T20:59:00Z

    A world where artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced to the point where we can compare it to a human and judge it by its actions accordingly is the scene set in the latest instalment of a futuristic port story.

  • News

    Cargotec projects tackle industry inefficiencies

    2019-05-14T15:18:00Z

    Cargotec is to continue its joint projects with multiple startups to address maritime industry inefficiencies introduced to it through maritime startup collaboration platform, the Rainmaking Trade & Transport Impact Programme.

  • Itapoá is championing its successes. Credit: Porto Itapoá
    News

    Bucking the national trend

    2019-05-02T11:46:00Z

    Porto Itapoá invests beyond increased throughput and potential automation for its future success, writes Carly Fields

  • A worker walking across a suspended bridge.
    News

    The Umbilical Cords of Port Machinery

    2019-05-02T11:45:00Z

    Dave MacIntyre finds out if crane cable chains deliver everything they promise.

  • RAM's pipe-handling system improves handling speed and safety. Credit: RAM Spreaders
    News

    Putting spreaders to work for bulk

    2019-05-02T11:43:00Z

    John Bensalhia investigates attachment options that look beyond pure container operations

  • bulk carrier
    News

    A stronger future for short sea shipping

    2019-05-01T15:12:00Z

    As shipping gets smarter and more sustainable, the Coastlink conference addresses how short sea and container feeder shipping can best secure a stronger future.

  • Port of Piraeus
    News

    Global port links forged at China's BRI Forum

    2019-04-29T14:05:00Z

    Cosco’s investment in Greece''s Port of Piraeus will play a key part in a drive to establish Greece as a “bridge” between the West and the East, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said at China''s second Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum in Beijing.

  • Jeremy Nixon in a screengrab of a video from 2018
    News

    Logic of mega-containerships questioned

    2019-04-29T10:26:00Z

    A top shipping line executive questioned whether 22,000 teu ships are “really the right way to go” at TOC Asia’s Container Supply Chain Conference.

  • BOXBAY
    News

    HBS system to boost efficiency

    2019-04-18T12:17:00Z

    A new and intelligent High Bay Storage (HBS) system which packs maximum capacity into a condensed area could boost operational efficiency, a port expert has said.

  • The model will see Kalmar get paid on the basis of performance — such as completed container moves per hour (image is for illustrative purposes only)
    News

    Performance model “not a science project”

    2019-04-15T10:46:00Z

    Kalmar executives have stressed that the equipment provider’s new performance guarantee model is “proven technology and not a science project”.

  • News

    Stop unfair port access practices

    2019-04-11T16:49:00Z

    The International Shipsuppliers & Services Association (ISSA) has said its association members continue to experience unwarranted delay, obstruction and unfair charges when they wish to enter ports to deliver stores to ships.

  • PSA International
    News

    Tech startups to innovate ports and beyond

    2019-04-11T16:04:00Z

    PSA unboXed, the Singapore-based innovation and corporate venture capital arm of PSA International, and Israeli-based theDOCK Innovation Hub have entered into an agreement to invest in startups to leverage innovative technologies that will benefit the port, maritime and supply chain sector.

  • Richard Koh
    News

    Digitalisation for innovation initiative

    2019-04-10T16:48:00Z

    Over the next three years, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will focus on digitalisation to help companies innovate and improve productivity.

  • PEMA Student Challenge winners
    News

    PEMA 2019 student challenge announced

    2019-04-09T21:38:00Z

    The Port Equipment Manufacturers Association has announced the PEMA Student Challenge theme question for 2019 is ''Exploring the drivers behind change: Defining the port of the future''.

  • News

    Safety features ‘must be standard’

    2019-04-09T09:21:00Z

    Container crane manufacturers that fail to apply minimum safety features as standard are putting lives at risk, a TOC Asia audience heard today.