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WWL: 32%cut in greenhouse gas emissions
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics cut its green house gas emissions by 32% last year. The company also cut its sulphur dioxide emissions (SO2) emissions by 135,000 tonnes in a nine year period from 2000 to 2009, an amount nearly equal to all the SO2 emissions from road vehicles in the United ...
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NewsIntroducing: The “clean, green, terminal of the future”
Shipping specialists Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has unveiled a futuristic, zero-emissions, marine terminal powered by the sun and the wind
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NewsGaussin introduces Container Terminal Multi-trailer
French port equipment manufacturer Gaussin recently presented the ATT terminal trailer to the market. Now, however, the company has made the next logical step and launched the AMTS – multi-trailer system. Alex Goussiatiner* reports
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NewsLocal positioning overcomes global problems
While the majority of PDS on the market adopt some sort of global positioning satellite technology, the system marketed by Germany’s Symeo uses local wireless technology to counter problems associated with some existing DGPS receivers: that they are unable to supply reliable data due to the high structures commonplace at ...
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NewsTowards a carbon-reduced logistics chain
The GreenPort Logistics conference in Stockholm earlier this year focused on the challenges of carbon reduction in the transport chain
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NewsFinding lost boxes
Terminal operators are investing in state-of-the-art position detection systems to streamline box management, writes Patrik Wheater
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NewsLogistic Chain Management: from environmental protection to sustainable business
The logistic chain must not just focus on environmental protection, but increasingly it must work towards becoming a “sustainable business”. The newly established ECO SLC initiative is aimed at assisting organisations with this challenge. Some of the key issues are analysed by Herman Journée and Chris Wooldridge*
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NewsNo more bids for Forth Ports – for now
A recent spate of takeover bids for the UK''s Forth Ports has come to an end, with would-be suitor Northstream withdrawing a last-ditch attempt to secure the interest of Forth’s board with a £15.00 ($21.70) per share proposal.
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NewsMobile's pledge to stay open, despite spill
The Port of Mobile has said that remaining open to commercial traffic even in the face of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is a necessity, given the economic trials caused by the oil spill.
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NewsZeebrugge terminal share goes to SIPG
Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) has acquired a 25% stake in Belgium’s multi-user Zeebrugge box terminal from APM Terminals (APMT), for €27.16m ($33.7m).
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Limon's $950m price tag
Plans to build and operate a new port complex in Costa Rica''s eastern Limón province have attracted a $950m price tag, port authority president Allan Hidalgo has said.
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La Union opens for business
El Salvador''s La Union port opened on May 31, after receiving the ship and port facility security code (ISPS code) approval required to begin operations, an official from maritime ports authority AMP has confirmed.
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E-petition to end piracy
An unprecedented coalition of organisations have joined forces to back a global e-petition demanding concrete action “to end the piracy that is putting lives at risk and threatening world trade”.
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NewsNigeria climbs Onne up
The Port of Onne''s West Africa Container terminal (WACT) has recorded container volume growth of 18% through May 2010, compared with the same period in 2009, as West Africa and other economically emerging markets set the pace for trade recovery.
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NewsSustainable hinterland logistics in practice
The Port of Amsterdam and the Flower Auction FloraHolland in the Netherlands initiated a pilot in the first 3 months of 2010. Edwin Wenink, FloraHolland, reports: “For the first time, we brought plants in a logistic chain mainly based on waterway transport between the place of origin and the final ...
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Top tips for an effective incentive scheme
The UK could undoubtedly be more competitive if employers offered their employees more incentives, according to the MacLeod Report under its title ‘Engaging for Success’. Produced by independent reviewers David MacLeod and Nita Clarke for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, the report suggests that the relationship between employees ...
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NewsEarly catastrophes sound warning bells
Across the insurance market, the tide is beginning to turn as the money begins to burn.
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Green Marine Environmental Results
sustainable future undertaken by the St. Lawrence – Great Lakes maritime industry in both Canada and the U.S., published the individual results attained by the 44 companies participating in the program.
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Growing emissions will cost transport sector, report finds
In a report entitled Sustainable Transport published earlier this year by leading provider of global business information Datamonitor Group (www.datamonitor. com), the conclusion is reached that transport companies can gain competitive advantage by adding sustainable solutions and capabilities to their services as volume returns to the market.
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NewsIndustry collaboration: key to greener ports
Interchange of information about ports, the environment and sustainable business management was a recurring theme of the presentations a the 5th GreenPort Conference in Stockholm on 24 and 25 February 2010
