All Equipment articles – Page 68

  • News

    APS wins Rio crane automation carnival

    2011-10-06T22:46:00Z

    The MultiRio container terminal in Rio de Janeiro has awarded APS Technology Group a crane automation solution project.

  • News

    Konecranes' temporary layoffs

    2011-09-29T15:33:00Z

    Konecranes has said it is starting negotiations regarding possible temporary layoffs in Finland in response to what it calls a “weakened demand” for its machine-tool services.

  • The Phocus Array on a Holophane light mast
    News

    Light masts star in radio role

    2011-09-29T15:09:00Z

    Taking an innovative stance on fast deployment and cost savings, one US container facility is making light fittings double up as radio masts.

  • Ports needs to wise up to the piracy challenge
    News

    Ports need clearer piracy procedures

    2011-09-22T21:35:00Z

    Ports in piracy-threatened regions must make clear how they will accommodate armed guards and issue transparent guidelines to shipowners and operators, Dom Mee, president of Protection Vessels International, has warned.

  • News

    Tideworks TOS to service APL

    2011-09-22T21:03:00Z

    Tideworks is to implement its TOS solutions at APL’s new intermodal facility in Joliet, Illinois. Scheduled to go live in the fourth quarter of 2011, the project will serve APL’s customers in Chicago and the surrounding areas, and will eventually replace its existing Chicago container facility.

  • News

    Fender choices driven by price

    2011-09-21T10:00:00Z

    Price-driven fender purchases could “increase costs and reduce the efficiency of ports over the longer-term”, according to research from Trelleborg Marine Systems.

  • John Wright: Breaking the ‘mental concrete’ of wrongly-held perception can be difficult
    News

    Challenging a communication culture

    2011-09-15T14:09:00Z

    Ineffective communication could be losing port and terminal operations significant sums of hard money. Or, as Captain John Wright of WrightWay Training told Port Strategy, “One plus one plus one doesn’t always equal three.”

  • A research vessel ‘sniffed’ the airborne pollutants from the Margrethe Maersk as it approached the coast
    News

    Clean fuel will save lives in port areas

    2011-09-15T14:09:00Z

    A research paper published this week showed that air pollution near ports and next to shipping lanes drops dramatically when vessels shift to cleaner, low-sulphur fuels.

  • News

    New AGVs replace first-generation vehicles

    2011-09-15T10:28:00Z

    Gottwald is supplying 22 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to Europe Container Terminals (ECT) in Rotterdam, a long-term customer.

  • News

    TOS for Polish inland facility

    2011-09-15T10:25:00Z

    PCC Intermodal is to start to deploy an Autostore Terminal Operating System (TOS) at its Kutno inland terminal in central Poland, a key national and international railroad nexus.

  • The damaged equipment at SNSG’s facilities in Norway
    News

    Shiploader to the rescue

    2011-09-15T10:23:00Z

    Since a March storm destroyed the Store Norske Spitsbergen Grubekompani (SNSG) aged loading equipment, the company has been trying to replace it – but its been left with a very tight timeframe.

  • A combined Navis and APS approach at Los Angeles' Pier 400 improved visibility for train-based equipment
    News

    Creating something from nothing

    2011-09-11T10:00:00Z

    One benefit of alliances that can pay dividends for end users is the development of solutions that did not previously exist.

  • Cavotec's partnerships with port customers allow them enable to "ensure the equipment they use is best suited to their specific requirements"
    News

    A happy union

    2011-09-10T10:00:00Z

    Carly Fields asks whether alliances and partnerships really do deliver on their promises

  • Refurbished cranes offer greater dynamic performance and environmental benefits
    News

    Portunus refurbishment gains

    2011-09-09T14:51:00Z

    DP World Aden has appointed Portunus to undertake refurbishment of four RTG cranes.

  • The first hydrogen-fuel cell to electric Class 8 truck is to prove its commercial viability at LA and LB
    News

    From pie in the sky to rubber on the road

    2011-08-22T17:26:00Z

    The world''s first hydrogen-fuel Class 8 truck is being put to the test in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

  • News

    Ohio's high tech intermodal terminal

    2011-08-22T17:26:00Z

    CSX Intermodal Terminals has implemented a terminal operating system (TOS) at its new Northwest Ohio intermodal terminal (NWOH) that should lever extra value from its cutting-edge approach.

  • News

    Free emissions advice

    2011-08-22T17:25:00Z

    Materials handling supplier Barloworld is offering free advice to UK ports and terminals covering the new Tier 4i/Stage IIIB emission regulations that affect equipment such as reachstackers, empty container handlers and high capacity forklift trucks.

  • Not just a matter of where, but what’s in the box?
    News

    A matter of visibility

    2011-08-22T17:24:00Z

    At present, when people talk about ‘supply chain visibility’ they tend to mean the container itself, and not the cargo within. However, a new project aims to take the lid off this opacity.

  • News

    Chassis control system in New Jersey

    2011-08-22T17:22:00Z

    Maher Terminals in Elizabeth, NJ, has implemented eModal’s Chassis Control solution. The system was also inaugurated at two off-dock chassis depots at the same time. Chassis Control offers terminal operators and chassis providers, such as TRAC Intermodal, enhanced control and management of chassis access at key operational facilities.

  • Peter Sands: Global supply chains provide efficiencies of scale, but have also increased interdependencies between economies
    News

    Globalisation: not always a saving grace

    2011-08-18T15:41:00Z

    It seems the sector is, to an extent, the victim of its own success, says Peter Sands of BIMCO in the organisation’s recent Shipping Markets Overview.