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NewsGuam box terminal privatisation coming in on final approach
Guam is soon to make a decision about the privatisation of its container terminal facilities.
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NewsArgentina invests to handle giants
Argentina''s leading terminals have been forced to invest in post-Panamax gantry cranes by carriers whose larger ships are putting pressure on South America''s east coast to meet their needs.
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NewsBenchmarking to get ahead
How does a port or terminal go about determining how good it is? Does it benchmark - against its nearest rival, a world league table, or what?
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Technology's helping hand
There are a large number of companies currently supplying equipment for automated gate systems.
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NewsTechnology delivers speedy ROI
In this report Alex Hughes considers the role played by technology in bringing economies and efficiencies to the gate and hastening a return on investment.
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NewsWest Coast revolution
Following last month''s look at gate systems in the Philippines, France and Brazil, Alex Hughes now reports on a labour and technology revolution in the US.
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Integrate software to increase throughput
It is estimated that Felixstowe has almost doubled its throughput, without the need for additional equipment, since introducing its Tug Scheduling System (TSS). TSS is a bespoke system which provides real time scheduling, monitoring and control of tractor/trailers in the container terminal.
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That short but critical distance
For maximum productivity, container handling must be synchronised from the quay to the yard. Benedict Young investigates.
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NewsDurban deliberates
Durban''s new Pier 1 is set to deliver major new capacity and switch to an RTG system in the process but the jury is still out on the role of the private sector.
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NewsHigh costs and heavy weather
The opening of Shanghai''s new Yangshan port may well solve some draught and congestion problems, but it raises some important cost and operational issues as well. James Macpherson reports.
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NewsWhat's happening where
The major European contractors Royal Boskalis Westminster, Van Oord, Jan de Nul and DEME, are estimated to share 60% of the global dredging market whilst contractors based in Asia and the US, namely Penta Ocean, Hyundai, Samsung and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, together with various regional and local players, ...
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Hot potato
In the dredging business the impact of environmental and social factors can never be overlooked and there is no better example of these interests clashing with commercial and economic considerations than Port Phillip Bay, the conduit to the port of Melbourne.
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NewsPolitics never far away
As container ships get bigger, as LNG projects proliferate, as ports compete for traffic, inevitably the call to deepen approach channels, harbours and berths grows louder. And in some cases, so do the howls of protest. Nick Elliott reports.
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NewsThe reclaim game
The rationale for capital and maintenance dredging is one thing but land reclamation is driven by an entirely separate set of criteria. Many ports still have little idea of the economics involved and so don''t even consider reclamation.
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So farewell then, P&O Ports
At first P& O Ports was hardly a group of ports at all, more a higeldy-pigeldy collection of Australian and English Channel terminal operations acquired over the years during the early phases of containerisation.
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Noble selects Magenta
Magenta Technology''s intelligent scheduling and continuous planning application, i-Scheduler, has been selected by supply chain manager Noble Group to facilitate co-ordination of its logistics operations.
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