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  • Port Strategy: the Port of Vigo puts FLTs to good use
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    Vigo

    2008-12-02T12:24:00Z

    Vigo-based stevedoring company Vasco Gallega de Consignaciones (VGC) operates a fleet of 26 FLTs, in addition to four reachstackers. The FLTs were acquired from Luna, Nissan and Kalmar.

  • Port Strategy: Kalmar believes that the flexibility and speed of FLTs can often work to their advantage
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    FLTs

    2008-12-01T12:24:00Z

    FLTs can be adapted to fit a number of uses, but don''t expect to make savings on operating costs. Alex Hughes reports

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    BPA spotlight on port policy and sustainable development

    2008-11-30T10:37:00Z

    This year’s British Ports Association conference was hosted by the Milford Haven Port Authority. The Conference focused on UK Transport Policy, Port Markets and Sustainable Development. Kate Royston reports.

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    Bringing the port into the classroom

    2008-11-29T10:53:00Z

    In an initiative to improve the image of container ports, Contship Italia has introduced Porto Lab into the curriculum of a number of Italian schools.

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    Newcastle Fender Study

    2008-11-28T12:24:00Z

    Last month’s Port Strategy highlighted the importance of fender research, something that Australia’’s Newcastle port heartily supports.

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    Women in Maritime reaches Asia

    2008-11-27T12:24:00Z

    Port executives are playing an influential role in the imminent launch of what will be known as ''Women in Maritime Asia Region''.

  • Port Strategy: might the outlandish Sahara plan bypass the Straits of Hormuz bottleneck?
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    Ships for the desert

    2008-11-27T12:24:00Z

    The Middle East is known for both areas of political volatility and large infrastructure projects, and both are combining to motivate one development that would be the mother of them all - a giant canal across the desert that could handle both oil tankers and freight ships.

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    Strike action continues at Dover

    2008-11-27T12:24:00Z

    The strike at Dover looks like continuing this week as a further three-day walk-out is planned for Thursday. Hundreds of Unite members working at Dover Harbour went on strike last week  after a dispute hinging on the outsourcing of harbour jobs to private contractors was not resolved.

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    Bahrain to open in January

    2008-11-27T12:24:00Z

    APM Terminals'' Bahrain Gateway facility at Khalifa bin Salman Port in Hidd is slated to open at the end of this year or in early January. The port will service the adjacent Bahrain Logistics Zone.

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    Miners interested in share of coal port

    2008-11-27T12:24:00Z

    Macarthur Coal has expressed an interest in buying a stake in one of Australia''s largest coal ports, say industry sources.

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    Port loses its old friend

    2008-11-27T12:24:00Z

    Maersk, the first shipping line to recognise the Port of Tacoma''s significance to the US-Asia route over two decades ago is ceasing its service to the port from May next year, due to falling container volumes.

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    Intelligent in-port repositioning: an ecological solution to relieve the roads

    2008-11-27T10:08:00Z

    A scheme aimed at relieving the environmental strain on the road system recently celebrated an anniversary: HHLA’s Unikai affiliate and its partner Deutsche Binnenreederei have now transported 100,000 TEU by barge between O’Swaldkai and other Hamburg terminals.

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    200 up for the LHM 400

    2008-11-26T17:21:00Z

    In Autumn 2008, Liebherr-Werk Nenzing celebrated its 200th LHM 400 mobile harbour crane. Introduced in 1996, the LHM 400 - characterised by a max. lifting capacity of 104 tonnes and a max. outreach of 48 meters – is particularly suitable for ship-sizes up ...

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    Environmentally mobile

    2008-11-26T17:12:00Z

    Mobile crane manufacturer Liebherr has been introducing eco-technology into its equipment .

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    Cooking up a storm in Lebanon

    2008-11-26T12:24:00Z

    Some interesting plans are brewing in Beirut. Informed sources indicate that the Beirut port management is planning a port extension which will incorporate a new container terminal facility developed specifically for use by CMA CGM and the Mediterranean Shipping Company, a dedicated facility.

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    Aiming upward

    2008-11-26T12:24:00Z

    Kuwait also has its possibilities - and its problems. Easily one of the richest nations on earth, Kuwait collapsed as the region''s premier trade hub in the 1970s after the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, and Iraq''s 1990 invasion.

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    Public Health and the Ports

    2008-11-25T17:06:00Z

    According to the California Air Resource Board, every year 1,200 premature deaths are caused statewide due to pollution caused by port trucks.

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    LA’s “Clean Truck Program” under way

    2008-11-25T17:01:00Z

    When fully implemented in 2012, Los Angeles’ “Clean Truck Program” will take over 16,000 diesel trucks off the road, cutting emissions by 80 percent.

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    Construction pushes ports

    2008-11-25T12:24:00Z

    Ports of the United Arab Emirates are engaged in a flurry of activities to upgrade equipment and facilities on the back of an economic boom which has seen ports clogged up with both domestic products and construction materials.

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    Hydrogen technology at the Port of Hamburg

    2008-11-25T09:58:00Z

    For the first time, fuel-cell forklifts will be taking part in cargo handling at HHLA Logistics.