All Equipment articles – Page 54

  • The new Thames Hub airport is strategically located near to DP World’s Thames Gateway
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    Thames Hub airport plan

    2013-07-25T15:13:00Z

    A proposal has been formally submitted to the UK government’s Airports Commission for a new four runway airport hub on the Isle of Grain in the UK’s Thames Estuary.

  • Gaussin's ATT range is now available with battery, hybrid and automation technology
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    Gaussin extends ATT range

    2013-07-18T16:57:00Z

    Gaussin Manugistique is now offering its container handling Automotive Terminal Trailer (ATT) range of vehicles with battery, hybrid and automation technology.

  • News

    Liebherr order intake

    2013-07-17T12:45:00Z

    Liebherr is increasing its market share in New Zealand with an order for one super post-panamax ship-to-shore crane and four straddle carriers for Port of Lyttelton.

  • News

    Cavotec’s dual mooring solution

    2013-07-17T12:45:00Z

    Port systems specialist Cavotec is to integrate its automated mooring technology with its Alternative Maritime Power electrical supply systems for two ferry berths in western Norway.

  • News

    Brittany’s ‘single window’

    2013-07-17T12:45:00Z

    Software specialist MGI has won a tender to install a single electronic cargo management window for Brittany ports Brest, Lorient and Saint-Malo.

  • The alliance aims to boost investment and export opportunities at both ports
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    Salalah and Virginia join forces

    2013-07-15T15:12:00Z

    The Port of Salalah and Virginia Port Authority have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to share information and generate new business.

  • The ITF is taking on DP World
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    Port unions target DP World

    2013-07-11T16:01:00Z

    The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) dockers’ union is targeting terminal operator Dubai Ports World (DPW) over its "anti-union activities” and its systematic attempt “to undermine the wages and working conditions of workers all over the world”.

  • News

    New Egis port subsidiary

    2013-07-11T10:49:00Z

    A French consulting and engineering group is taking its port expertise to new levels with the creation of a new subsidiary to focus in on specialised port projects.

  • "The demand for holistic solutions from a single source is steadily growing," Klaus Peter Hoffman, Terex Port Solutions
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    Responding to ecological needs

    2013-07-10T10:00:00Z

    Terex Port Solutions’ Klaus Peter Hoffmann discusses the need to meet a rise in environment awareness

  • Contianer volumes in North Europe are more or less flat
    News

    Container exports fluctuate

    2013-07-09T13:59:00Z

    This year is proving to be a mixed year for container exports as “the recession continues and it looks like peak season may not come about”.

  • Forward-looking risk assessments need to be sewn in to day-to-day port operations
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    Information and intelligence

    2013-07-09T10:00:00Z

    G4S'' David Fairnie explains the benefits of information, intelligence and technology in risk management

  • Under the contract, Gaussin will supply 40 of its ATT units, with an option for 60 more
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    Gaussin wins record deal

    2013-07-08T16:58:00Z

    A record deal was signed at this year’s TOC Europe for 40 container handling Automotive Terminal Trailer (ATT) units, with an option for 60 more.

  • Konecranes says its ARTG system is superior to anything else on the market
    News

    Taking automation to the next level

    2013-07-08T14:35:00Z

    Konecranes introduced its Automated RTG system (ARTG) to the industry at TOC Europe 2013 which it claims is the first of its kind on the market and promises to take automation to the next level.

  • The new Kalmar DCF50-90 forklift truck is the latest in the series of light range of 5 to 9 tonne capacity machines
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    New Kalmar products

    2013-07-05T15:37:00Z

    Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has extended its portfolio with the launch of three new products – Gloria, a new range of reachstackers, the DCF50-90 forklift truck and Kalmar Care, a new service contract concept.

  • Model 5 makes use of TPS low maintenance three-phase electrical system technology
    News

    New low emission harbour crane

    2013-07-04T17:29:00Z

    There’s a new low emission harbour crane on the market which promises to improve efficiency without compromising economical and sustainable cargo handling in ports and terminals.

  • Navis believes container terminal users should help plan, monitor, analyse and control the operation process
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    Make optimisation a shared goal, says Navis

    2013-07-03T15:21:00Z

    Software specialist Navis wants to bring the user back into the automated container terminal optimisation process in a move away from the previous ‘black box’ approach.

  • Kalmar's Gloria marks the company's 5th generation reackstacker
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    Kalmar 'total cost' focus

    2013-07-03T11:22:00Z

    A focus on total cost of ownership of port machinery has kept Cargotec unit Kalmar at the vanguard of equipment development.

  • The industry needs to "figure out the gap between planning and execution"
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    Automation issues

    2013-07-03T10:51:00Z

    Automation was a hot topic at this year’s TOC Europe, which took place in the port city of Rotterdam last week.

  • The size of the issue: A report into the MSC Napoli grounding found that the weight of a fifth of the boxes were underdeclared Photo: French Ministry of Defence
    News

    Container weighing forward thinking

    2013-07-02T18:01:00Z

    Strainstall, a leading stress analysis and design verification expert, is targeting the tricky issue of misdeclared container weights with its new container weighing system.

  • Ben Vree, CEO, APM Terminals Europe Region
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    Eastern Europe drives port growth

    2013-06-27T16:06:00Z

    The healthy projected volume increase in Eastern Europe and the increasingly important Russian market are set to be the driving factors for European container market growth, according to Ben Vree, CEO of APM Terminals Europe Region.