Europe – Page 129

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    HASKONING STRENGTHENS SERVICES

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Specialist consultant Royal Haskoning has purchased UK transport consultant Denis Wilson Partnership in a bid to take its operations “ beyond the waters’ edge” .The marriage will bring Denis Wilson’ s expertise in inland logistics and transport planning to Haskoning clients,offering what the company claims will be a “ one-stop ...

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    HEROD FOR MOFFATT

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Ex-Associated British Ports’ executive David Herod has joined the London team of consultant Moffat & Nichol.

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    SPANISH RTG BOOST

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Grupo Boluda Corporacion Maritima confirmed an order for eight rubber-tyred gantry (RTGs) cranes, while Dragados ordered a further six RTGs from Konecranes.

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    Box traffic to hit 1bn by 2020

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Andrew Penfold, director of Ocean Shipping Consultants, anticipates that total container traffic will hit 1bn teu by 2020, building on last year’ s total of 426m teu and 2015 estimates of 600m teu. 

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    Rotterdam on the slab with ThyssenKrupp deal

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Steel specialist ThyssenKrupp Steel has announced that it will favour Rotterdam when it expands its manufacturing capacities around the world. 

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    Automation the key for Euromax

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    ECT Euromax Terminal, currently under construction at Rotterdam, has taken delivery of 12 automated rail mounted gantry (ARTGs) cranes to work the stacking lanes at the terminal. 

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    Babcock & Brown plans investment fund

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Australian finance group Babcock & Brown is reported to be seeking to raise up to € 2bn ($2.7bn) to feather  a new European investment fund for the future financing of ports and freight transport speculations. 

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    Marseilles takes the long view

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    In an attempt to put crippling strike action earlier this year behind it, Marseilles has announced a string of investments to secure its future growth. 

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    Port workers need never be alone

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    The UK’ s Argyll Telecom has launched a waterproof device for mobile personnel monitoring allowing easy pinpointing of workers in an emergency. The MaxCare device, which can be worn on the arm, leg, shoulder, waist or sewn into an item of clothing, combines mobile phone and satellite location monitoring technology.

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    Congestion stunts liner reliability

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Port congestion is being blamed for the massive failure of liner ships to meet their scheduled berthing slot this year. 

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    EL PRAT PUT BACK TO 2010

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Partial opening of Barcelona’ s El Prat Quay has been put back to mid-2009. This follows the collapse on January 1, 2007 of one third of the 1,500 metre quay line.

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    CYBIT LOCATOR LAUNCH

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Online Telematics Service Provider Cybit has launched Cybit Positioning Solutions (CPS) to provide specialist telematicsbased solutions to industries requiring precision location and positioning information.The technology can be used to manage busy operations in ports and harbours.

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    Mark of quality for container terminals

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has spearheaded a drive to develop a benchmarking system for terminals. 

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    Life after feedering

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Black Sea ports are following Constantza’ s lead to take on a transhipment role in the region.Alex Hughes reports

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    Russian roulette

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Slow investment at the country’ s leading seaport has allowed competing ports to leap-frog Novorossiysk, as Alex Hughes explains

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    Odessa celebrates leap in throughput

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    The container terminal at the Novorossiysk’ s neighbouring port of Odessa, which is run by a subsidiary of Hamburg Port Consulting, handled 395,563 teu in 2006 compared with 279,812 teu the year before. This 41% increase, notes public relations deputy general director Svetlana Yarovaya, can be attributed to a number ...

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    Personal injury claims on the rise

    2007-06-01T16:26:00Z

    Personal injury and handling equipment incidents on the quayside are on the up in Europe and the US, as ports struggle to boost capacity to meet the challenge of China. 

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    SYRIA SIGNS FOR LIEBHERR

    2007-05-01T16:26:00Z

    International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has ordered two new Liebherr LHM 400 mobile harbour cranes for its new Tartous container terminal concession in Syria.

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    KONE NETS UKRAINE ORDERS

    2007-05-01T16:26:00Z

    Odessa''s HPC Ukraina has ordered four rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) Konecranes cranes for Odessa Sea Trade Port, a subsidiary of HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH.

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    KALMAR RENTAL COUP

    2007-05-01T16:26:00Z

    Sweden''s largest timber products company has agreed a multi-year rental contract with Kalmar for 31 specially developed forklift trucks.