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A huge and ambitious global undertaking
Notwithstanding a rather gloomy picture, we must remember that it is still early days. The implementation of the ISPS Code has been a huge and ambitious global undertaking and we are all learning as we go along.
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NewsIs it working?
Following the 9/11 attacks, the IMO went into a frenzy of unprecedented activity. Chris Austen analyses the upshot of all this on the ports sector.
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NewsQuality code welcomed
The proposed open industry standard, the 360 Quality Code, recently put forward by reefer carriers LauritzenCool, Seatrade and NYK Reefer, is wholly supported by Simon Bird and the port of Bristol. While he acknowledges this will inevitably add some degree of cost both to the port and to the shipping ...
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NewsAfrican Promises, Italian Pizzazz and British Playing Fields
Take three scenarios: Africa, Italy, the UK.
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It's about Pizzazz
Then move to the Mediterranean. You have to hand it to the Italians. They know all about pizzazz - or is it brio ? that boldness, vigour, style and flamboyance. Whilst polite but pedestrian port execs elsewhere in Europe are doggedly struggling through the turgid swamp of directives, decrees, dictates ...
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Port security: real or imagined?
Ben Hackett fears something else to lie awake at night and worry about
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NewsAuckland Ports acquired by ARH
Ports of Auckland is to return to full public ownership following the US$117.5m takeover bid of Auckland Regional Holdings (ARH) surpassing 90% acceptance. As a consequence, the statutory entity of the Auckland Regional Council can now enforce compulsory acquisition of the outstanding 10% shareholding of New Zealand''s largest port company.
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Belligerent Nations?
Another alternative being examined could see regional or continental chains of linked VTS systems exchanging data originally derived from AIS that would not require ships to transmit data once they had entered such a chain.
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NewsThe Two-Edged Sword
Advocates of Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) believe its integration with Vessel Traffic Systems (VTS) can make ports safer and offer a commercial advantage. Others disagree as David Foxwell explains.
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NewsCooling it
Alex Hughes turns to the southwest of England and South Africa to discover what makes for a successful chilled fruit terminal operation.
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Soft times a-coming
All of sudden, if you are a port operator or a port authority, the international insurance market located in London has the welcome mat out for you. In addition to the TT Club, there are market segmenters at work aiming at different parts of the whole. If you are a ...
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NewsFeeding Belfast livestock
Redler, the bulk materials handling specialist, is to undertake the mechanical and electrical design and construction elements of a new 75,000 tonne animal feed store planned to be built within the port of Belfast.
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Hull and Goole upwardly mobile
ABP''s two north Humberside ports have each ordered a Liebherr LHM 320 MHC, primarily for container handling. Both are equipped with automatic telescopic spreader. They also include Liebherr''s economy software for optimised fuel consumption as well as a second cabin on the slewing platform offering the same features as the ...
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NewsTrailer positioning system for New York
Four super post-Panamax cranes recently delivered to New York Container Terminal (NYCT) by Liebherr Container Cranes feature an ultramodern trailer positioning system (TPS).
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NewsNavis/APL get results
APL Kaoshiung recently set a new productivity record at the port loading and discharging an average of 164 containers per hour over 21 hours from a single vessel. This record exceeds the port''s standard of 55 containers per berth hour by 198%.
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NewsGottwald supplies Varna and Antwerp
Gottwald has recently delivered its first MHC to Bulgaria. The 100-ton HMK 300 E, Gottwald''s current bestseller, will be operated as a container crane at Varna.
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NewsGantry cranes
The third of five gantry cranes was taken ashore at berth 1 of the Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg from ZPMC''s ZHEN HUA 8. ZPMC ensured the 1,800 ton giant was pulled onto the quay wall when the water level was at its highest.
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Consens brings fresh thinking to strad market
Consens'' straddle carrier range will be launched early next year and its new machines trialled at terminals in Europe and the US at the end of this year. The company, formed by former FantuzziNoell staff including Bjorn Riechers as Consens'' managing director, will focus on developing its strad carrier range ...
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Cargo scam warning
UNCTAD carried out a global government and industry survey on ISPS Code implementation, costs and related financing (available for downloading at www.unctad.org/ttl/legal). A total of 55 completed questionnaires were received from respondent ports, the majority of these being in developed countries.The TT Club warns of increasingly sophisticated cargo theft methods. ...
