All Equipment articles – Page 70
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Meclift expanding sales in Latin America
Finnish handling equipment manufacturer Meclift is growing its Latin American market. It sold the first unit of its ML1612R Variable Reach Truck to Brazil and signed a distribution agreement with F&F Comércio e Representacões Ltda in 2010. 2011 has already seen almost all the company’s production capacity sold to Latin ...
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NewsLiebherr unveils heavyweight MHC
Liebherr is to launch a new Mobile Harbour Crane model at TOC Europe 2011 to bridge the gap between the LHM 550 and the LHM 280.
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Driving the economic engines
‘Portcentric’ isn’t a term generally used in the US – rather, there is a good deal of talk about ports being economic engines or providing opportunities to connect to markets, says Bruce Lambert, executive director of the Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies in New Orleans.
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A central role
The port-centric concept can cut supply chain costs, reduce carbon footprints and improve customer service, finds Felicity Landon
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NewsUntangling the regulations
Ports stand to benefit from a system that will not only deliver class–specific regulation requirements to visiting ships, but will also highlight where the rules contradict each other.
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VeriTainer offers lower-cost radiation detector
VeriTainer has launched a budget version of its patented radiation scanning system to address asset protection on dock.
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NewsFloating port offers 'quick fix' to congestion
A novel idea for a floating hub port has been unveiled which could not only boost the Scottish economy, but also provide an answer to ports’ perennial problems of trying to predict the future.
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NewsReefer manual valuable to stevedores
In a bid to help reduce costly compensation claims and minimise the potential loss from damage to chilled and frozen foodstuffs, BMT De Beer, has published a complete set of guidelines for the reefer sector.
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NewsKPIs, port centric logistics, insurance... all in the next Port Strategy!
Subscribe to Port Strategy now to benefit from a wealth of unique and informed port knowledge. The May issue features independently researched features on how to set and exceed key performance indicators, how to co-exist with the environment without damaging profits, and how to make money out of port centric ...
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Mooring options for Aussie bulk
Automated mooring technology is to be used at an iron ore facility at the Port of Geraldton in Western Australia.
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Gottwald goes large in Chile
Demag subsidiary Gottwald Port Technology is celebrating an order for the largest mobile harbour crane for container handling in the Americas. The Generation 5 G HMK 8410 MHC will be supplied to Puerto Angamos, Mejillones, Chile, allowing the operator to service super post-panamax vessels in future. Commercial operation is scheduled ...
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OTR burning rubber with hire scheme
Tyre specialist OTR is pushing its Tyre Hire service as an “affordable and convenient” option, with the added benefit of improving cash flow management.
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NewsGreen pressure piled on port consultants
The pressure to ‘green’ port equipment is being keenly felt by consultants, according to a survey by Trelleborg Marine Systems.
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Taim Weser to supply holistic systems
Spain-headquartered Taim Weser group is to design, manufacture, and supply a conveyor belt system and stockyard machinery for the new Porto Sudeste Port Terminal to be built in Itaguaí (Brazil) by LLX.
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NewsBCT celebrates first heavy load
Baltic Container Terminal in Poland recently handled its first heavy cargo using its new Liebherr LHM-400 mobile harbour crane.
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Liebherr nets DPW Egypt contract
Liebherr has won a contract to supply the first set of rubber-tyred gantry cranes to DP World’s Sokhna terminal in Egypt. The RTGs are 16 wheel configuration, stack one over five containers high and span six containers plus a truck lane.
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Boxrunner answer to moving problem
Konecranes has launched a new straddle carrier to improve the link between container unloading and yard stacking operations.
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NewsCustoms requirement burden
Yet more demands for electronic data submission within the EU, this time on the customs side under the Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS), are driving change within the ports and shipping industries.
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Kalmar breaks ground in Cartagena
Cargotec has received a significant order from long-time Colombian customer Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Cartagena for two Kalmar ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and 24 Kalmar rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes. The agreement is worth approximately €40m ($54.1m). These will be the first Kalmar STS cranes and Kalmar Zero Emission E-One2 RTGs operating ...
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Automated facility goes for Bromma
Bromma has been awarded two major new contracts for the supply of all-electric spreaders for use on automated stacking cranes.
