Latest News – Page 1157
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NewsPorts Ponder Fonterra’s Call
The potential for shipper logistics decisions to have a direct bearing on port business strategies has never been better demonstrated than with the announcement by Fonterra - New Zealand’’s giant dairy exporter - to implement a new rail-based logistics solution for North Island export distribution.
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Imbalance of trade
The imbalance of visible trade which currently exists between China and the mature economies is growing into a feature of our times, one of the memorials to which are the lengthening queues of hauliers outside box terminals in places as far apart as Southampton and Long Beach.
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LIEBHERR TO SUPPLY RTGS TO ABP
The VTS also collects and records data to support ABP, as the Statutory Harbour Authority, in maintaining emergency procedures/ contingency plans and reporting and investigating oil pollution incidents. It complies with the IALA VTS Guidelines, all applicable IMO conventions, including SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 8-2, and takes account of the ...
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NewsSingapore Terminals
The VTS also collects and records data to support ABP, as the Statutory Harbour Authority, in maintaining emergency procedures/ contingency plans and reporting and investigating oil pollution incidents. It complies with the IALA VTS Guidelines, all applicable IMO conventions, including SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 8-2, and takes account of the ...
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PORT MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS, 2ND EDITION
The VTS also collects and records data to support ABP, as the Statutory Harbour Authority, in maintaining emergency procedures/ contingency plans and reporting and investigating oil pollution incidents. It complies with the IALA VTS Guidelines, all applicable IMO conventions, including SOLAS Chapter V, Regulation 8-2, and takes account of the ...
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NewsTerminal simulations help Tacoma too
It''s all about giving current and potential customers tools to upgrade their operations and increase efficiency, says the Port of Tacoma''s technology project manager and business analyst, Udo Mehlberg.
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..AND PORT EVERGLADES
From high-atop a container crane at Washington United Terminals, Mehlberg explains that new terminal simulation modelling has allowed Port of Tacoma customers to be more successful. And, he reports, the technology is helping the port attract new customers.Port Everglades Terminal (PET) is also now using Tideworks' terminal operations management system, ...
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NewsDENIS MURPHY
From high-atop a container crane at Washington United Terminals, Mehlberg explains that new terminal simulation modelling has allowed Port of Tacoma customers to be more successful. And, he reports, the technology is helping the port attract new customers. The DENIS MURPHY, a new Multi-Cat, is the latest addition to the ...
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TIDEWORKS CHOSEN FOR PUERTO CABELLO ?
Intershipping Terminal Services (ITS) has chosen Tideworks to provide terminal operations management systems for container operations in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
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NEW LAB SPONSORED
From high-atop a container crane at Washington United Terminals, Mehlberg explains that new terminal simulation modelling has allowed Port of Tacoma customers to be more successful. And, he reports, the technology is helping the port attract new customers.CodaOctopus is to sponsor a new geophysical research laboratory at Cardiff University. The ...
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Kalmar's E-One wins global orders
Terminal Pacifico Sur Valparaiso (TPS) in Chile and Terminal Container Athus (TCA) in Belgium have become the first container handling facilities to place orders for Kalmar''s new all-electric RTG, the E-One. The orders come within just eight weeks of the product''s launch.
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ESC BOOSTS CAR TERMINAL PRODUCTIVITY
TPS has opted for two 7+1 wide machines capable of lifting 1 over 5 containers and featuring Kalmar's Smartrail® autosteering and container position verification system, as well as remote monitoring interface. The machines, due for delivery in November 2005, represent a key step in the terminal operator's strategy to convert ...
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RADIONET DELIVERS WI-FI HOTZONE NETWORK TO LAS PALMAS
TPS has opted for two 7+1 wide machines capable of lifting 1 over 5 containers and featuring Kalmar's Smartrail® autosteering and container position verification system, as well as remote monitoring interface. The machines, due for delivery in November 2005, represent a key step in the terminal operator's strategy to convert ...
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Simulators in the news
Simulators are in the news this month (see also Container Handling: STS cranes).
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PSA completes purchase of Hong Kong assets
PSA International has completed the purchase of NWS Holdings Limited''s Hong Kong port assets. The deal represents PSA''s first investment in the world''s largest container port and involves the transfer of NWS Holdings'' equity stakes in Hong Kong''s Container Terminal No. 3 (CT3) and Container Terminal No. 8 (CT8) West ...
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NewsAuckland-P&O Nedlloyd in contract dispute
P& O Nedlloyd is understood to be seeking between US$735,000 and US$3.68m reimbursement in a contract dispute with Ports of Auckland. Having lost a service from the carrier in February last year, the port company is understood to be questioning whether P& O Nedlloyd''s remaining volume is sufficient to trigger ...
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NewsNelson port workers' deaths examined
The work histories of six former workers at the port of Nelson who have developed motor neurone disease are currently being investigated by the New Zealand Department of Labour''s Occupational Safety and Health Service (OSH) and the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board.
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NewsUnion issues overseas labour warning
The Maritime Union of New Zealand says it will shut down New Zealand ports if shortterm overseas casual labour is brought in under the guise of labour shortages.
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NewsNAVAL TECHNOLOGY SHIELDS THE WATERFRONT
Sophisticated electronics, signal processing, unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) and command and control technology developed for naval applications are all being used to makes ports and harbours safer, as David Foxwell writes.
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PORT CONGESTION: GONE OR JUST "SEASONALLY ADJUSTED"?
Ben Hackett further explores the problem and concludes that poor planning is the culprit.
