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NewsScott Wilson in Hong Kong
Overall, he notes, Indian ports are beginning to lack competitiveness compared to other regional players, which places the country's overseas trade at risk.Phased operations have now commenced at CT9, Hong Kong's newest and largest container terminal. The last of the six new berths is to be completed and handed over ...
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Hamburg joins financial race for JNPT
Overall, he notes, Indian ports are beginning to lack competitiveness compared to other regional players, which places the country's overseas trade at risk.Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has taken a 26% stake in the consortium put together by United Liner Agencies (India) to bid for the new container terminal development at ...
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Abidjan and Douala concessions up in the air
The disputed container terminal concession at Vridi, Abidjan, awarded to SETV and the Bollore group continues to cause problems. Last week 30 people were killed in Abidjan during anti-government protests that were in part related to this issue. The top management of the port authority were sacked and the president ...
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PSA Corp interested in Vizhinjam
Overall, he notes, Indian ports are beginning to lack competitiveness compared to other regional players, which places the country's overseas trade at risk.PSA Corp has expressed a strong interest in investing in the proposed deep-sea container terminal to be built at the Indian port of Vizhinjam, which it claims demonstrates ...
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Gwadar scheduled for 2005
The new Gwadar port will commence operations, on schedule, in March 2005. The initial phase, costing $298m, will involve three operational deep-sea berths, with additional phases due to add up to nine more and is being built by Chinese engineers.
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Israel grants workers
Overall, he notes, Indian ports are beginning to lack competitiveness compared to other regional players, which places the country's overseas trade at risk.The Israeli government is offering port workers at Haifa and Ashdod a total of $9.95m in grants to buy heavily discounted shares, if they support the proposed IPO, ...
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NewsMini and multi cats for Tuapse
Damen Shipyards has delivered two workboats to the Black Sea port of Tuapse, the Damen Mini Cat 803 for mooring operations and general services, and a Multi Cat 1506 for debris collecting, pollution control and bilge water collecting.
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NewsHyster upgrades heavy-duty forklifts
Hyster' s H8.00-16.00XM heavy-duty forklift trucks with capacities of 8 to 16 tons, now feature a new TE-10 automatic transmission to coincide with the availability of the Perkins Tier 2 engine. The new transmission provides three speeds either in forward or reverse and is fully automatic. However, in order to ...
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CIRIA's Accelerated Low Water Corrosion solution
A new form of aggressive, localised corrosion has occurred on unprotected steel marine structures over the past 20 years or so. It affects structures at or around the low water level and is called accelerated low water corrosion (ALWC), lowest astronomical tide corrosion (LAT) or concentrated corrosion.
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NewsConCat hits the road
Kongsberg Maritime and Uniteam International are showcasing the ConCat Survey catamaran.
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Thamesport orders Terbergs
Demonstrations of the innovative turnkey survey platform will take place during the coming months across the UK, USA and Canada.Thamesport has ordered 11 new Terberg terminal tractors. The first of the four YT220s will be leased through Barloworld. The remaining seven will be purchased outright through Transtec Equipment. The tractors ...
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NewsNew radar for VTS
A new X-Band radar system with a ' frequency diversity' technique designed for VTS operations, the Atlas 9760 RTX FD, has been unveiled Atlas Elektronik.
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NewsIf you can't grow out, grow up
Kalmar is to increase the height of the eight Kalmar RTGs currently in operation at Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) in Gdynia. The modification will raise the lifting capacity of the cranes from 1 over 3 to 1 over 5 containers and increase BCT' s handling capacity from an annual 400,000TEUs ...
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Liebherr's Turkish Delight
Turkish State Railways (TCDD) has ordered two Liebherrs for its port of Mersin - the first Turkish order for the company.
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NewsTHE HANDS-FREE BOX TERMINAL
As reported in PS (November/December 2003) Australia' s ambitious Patrick Stevedores is betting that low-cost terminal automation based on driverless straddles will give it a fresh competitive edge.
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THE DRIVE FOR BETTER CRANE CONTROL
To gain an insight into the way system designers can build intelligent controls into a crane, PS asked Wales-based Control Techniques Ltd to explain their approach.
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MAN vs MACHINE THE CONTROL SYSTEM CONUNDRUM
Container ship-to-shore gantry cranes. Not only are these pricey behemoths the key interface between the ship and the landside, they also represent today and tomorrow' s boundary between manual and automated operation on the terminal.
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NewsCLIMBING THE HILL
This feature looks first at the potential for multi-loading systems at ro-ro terminals, and secondly at the market for, and recent developments in, the ro-ro tractor sector.
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THERE'S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS
If ports are the arteries that ensure a country''s economic lifeblood, then in some East African countries the economy is being well supported with the opportunity to pump vigorously, whilst others are facing the potential of a serious coronary and all that goes with it. Steve Cameron investigates.
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NewsVTS TAKES ON NEW ROLES IN POST 9/11 WORLD
Vessel Traffic Systems (VTS) are set to play a major role in the new security regime imposed by the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code, as David Foxwell explains.
