Container & Cargo Handling – Page 68
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NewsConsultants' article
Sometimes it pays to break with tradition, as consultants dealing with port citings in the US are discovering. Alex Hughes investigates
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NewsSwamp-thing
Most global port authorities are painfully aware that virtually all the best locations for the citing of major maritime terminals have already been used up. Nevertheless, modern engineering techniques nowadays allow even marginal terrain, including swampland, to be stabilised prior to the establishment of new working areas.
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NewsThe Prince of intermodalism
Facing a decline in its bulk exports of pulp, paper and lumber to intermodal markets, the Canadian Port of Prince Rupert had to seek alternatives.
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NewsDarwin Port profile
Australia''s northernmost port outpost is gearing up for substantive growth. Iain MacIntyre finds out more
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NewsBig is beautiful
Demand for mobile harbour cranes for use in bulk handling has remained high in the first half of 2008. Felicity Landon reports
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NewsLifting coal volumes
While there are many positives to opting for a mobile harbour crane in comparison with a fixed system, there is the flip side of the coin to consider, as the Port of Tyne''s marine and technical director, Brian Reeve points out.
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Weighing the benefits
The port of Los Angeles has calculated the potential annual environmental benefits it can achieve from the 1.2m drayage trips its tractors make every year between the port and its nearby Intermodal Container Transfer Facility.
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NewsCorrosion feature
Saline and the erosion of port structures go hand-in-hand, so why aren''t ports doing more to protect their assets, asks Carly Fields
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Get in early and get the jump on corrosion
Operators looking to start construction of a new port or terminal should consider corrosion early on. While it''s often low on the list of priorities, a few dollars spent at the start could protect ports from serious profit erosion down the line.
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Newsterminal tractor item
Los Angeles is coming down hard on polluting terminal tugs, as Stuart Pearcey finds out
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NewsCrane Cabs
With cabs getting ever more sophisticated, crane workers are more akin to their office-based counterparts than ever before, as Alex Hughes discovers
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NewsPortek article
Portek chairman Larry Lam and executive director Ooi Boon Hoe examine the ''cascade effect'' in container shipping and the future implications for regional and feeder ports
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Containership cascade
· MPX (mid panamax) - 2,000 teu-3,500 teu · LPX (large panamax) - 3,500 teu-4,500 teu · PPX (post panamax) - 4,500 teu-6,000 teu · LPPX (large post panamax) - 6,000 teu-8,000 teu · SPPX ...
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NewsPlaying dirty: extra danger in any cargo
The challenge of neutralising undeclared ''dangerous'' cargoes passing through ports today is greater than ever, as Stuart Pearcey reports
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Down and dirty
Hidden within a perfectly innocent cargo, a dirty bomb is created by combining radioactive nuclear waste material and conventional explosives.
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dangerous cargo: sidebar 2
When is a hazard not a hazard? When the classification makes it expensive, if events in Kenya are any yardstick.
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Add dangerous cargo: sidebar 1
On the European side of the Atlantic, news that a shipment of weapons-ready plutonium was to be taken in an unarmed ship from Sellafield in Cumbria to France caused a media furore recently. The material has to be shipped because Sellafield had to call on its French competitor for help ...
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NewsUst-Luga article
Red tape and selective governing is holding back potential at the country''s coal port growth, as Alex Hughes finds out
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NewsSecond-hand, not second class
The northeast England port of Blyth found second-hand to be the best option when it required an additional reachstacker for its container operations; it has recently bought a second-hand Terex TFC45 R.
