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FATHOMS
Prior to the arrival of the 345 metre Queen Mary II at Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth recently, Fathoms conducted a pre-dredging multibeam swath survey of the entire port area for the Cromarty Harbour Authority. The objective of the survey was to ascertain the depth of water alongside the Admiralty ...
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Hong Kong's AVT captures OCR order
Optical Character Recognition specialist, Asia Vision Technology (AVT), has scooped new business in Korea, Hong Kong and China for the deployment of automated Vehicle License Plate Number Recognition (LPNR) and Container Number Recognition (CNR) solutions.
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Kalmar's Royal success
Kalmar has received an order for one post-Panamax shipto-shore (STS) container crane from Bristol Port Company, destined for the Royal Portbury Dock. With an outreach of 45 metres, this heavy-duty crane will be capable of handling 17-wide containerships. The crane is destined for the existing deepsea terminal in Bristol, which ...
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Latvians choose Transas
VECON LPNR and CNR systems will be installed on the six berths at the Busan New Port North Container Terminal, whilst in Hong Kong AVT will provide the River Trade Terminal, which caters for trade with the Pearl River region, with a 'Gate-Out Processing Automation solution' by installing VECON-CON on ...
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Savi and Brooks complete tag trials
Two supply chain security system providers have announced the successful completion of wide-ranging field trials of active RFID devices, designed to automatically detect cargo door intrusions and security breaches while communicating their location and condition.
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New Standards from BSI
British Standards Institution''s Business Information has published four new international standards on biometric technology, aiming to protect UK business and consumers. The BS ISO/IEC 19794 series of standards cover the science of using biological properties to identify individuals - for example, the recording of fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition ...
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CROMA'S NEW CCTV SYSTEMS
Security matters in the UK have been high on all agendas in the wake of the events of 7 July, and this month the Board of Croma Group has announced the formal roll-out of two innovative new CCTV systems.
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NewsNew Zealand: Whither ports after mergers?
Merger and acquisition activity has left New Zealand’s main container ports facing months of uncertainty.
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NewsAustralia's growing pains
Growing trade, bigger boxships and politics make for a potent brew Downunder. Kevin Chinnery has been tracking it all from Sydney.
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NewsAustralia prepares worker history screen
Up to 130,000 of Australia''s stevedores, seafarers and long-haul truck drivers are to be screened for criminal history from this October. This is prior to being issued a new identification card that will be mandatory for access to the docks. Government officials have predicted that the vetting will cause some ...
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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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NewsABP warns children
The aim is to bring all the agencies in the port and others together to recognise and mitigate risks, and for new types of risk, to nominate a lead agency responsible for security.UK port group, ABP, has launched a summer safety-awareness campaign to warn children of the dangers they face ...
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NewsThomas E. Falknor 24 March 1944 - 10 August 2005
Ask Thomas ''To m '' Falknor a serious question and in all probability you would receive a playful answer. Humour was one of his strong points as was his humanity, ability to command respect and astute business brain which he deployed to such good effect in the international world of ...
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Trade not aid
This year Africa has hardly been out of the spotlight with the G8 summit in Scotland, Live 8 concerts around the world and the UK''s Commission for Africa, all focusing on solving the continent''s difficulties. Whilst the results on debt relief and the potential reduction of trade barriers have been ...
