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  • Port Strategy: Hull to concentrate on port education development
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    Operations arena for institute

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    The new Logistics Institute at the UK University of Hull is to teach a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in logistics - with port operation a key area.

  • Port Strategy: US scanning legislation has major implications for ports
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    Ports to feel pinch of "blanket" US legislation

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    The threat of spiralling infrastructure, equipment, and staffing costs has led the World Customs Organization (WCO) to criticise the "blanket approach" of the US 100% maritime scanning legislation.

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    Cork news story

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    The Irish port of Cork''s plans for a new container terminal have been considered at an oral hearing, at which the Port of Waterford was a key objector.

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    Contship stands by CICT

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    Contship Italia has emphasised its commitment to the port of Cagliari by rejecting speculation that it is to pull out of Cagliari International Container Terminal.

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    Montreal terminals both choose Liebherr

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    Building its Canadian presence, crane manufacturer Liebherr has confirmed orders for rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes at two Montreal terminals.

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    Bids invited for Indian mega-terminal

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    Bids have been invited by Chennai Port Trust to build and operate India''s largest ever container terminal.

  • Port Strategy: Congestion is holding back country's port development
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    Crippled infrastructure threatens Vietnam success

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    Leading shipping lines have criticised a lack of investment and supporting infrastructure in Vietnamese ports.

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    Vietnam deepwater first set for 2008 start up

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    Saigon Newport plans to put Vietnam''s first deepwater port into service by the end of the year, according to Tran Khank Hoang, the company''s director of marketing and external relations.

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    VICT boosts capacity

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    Vietnam''s first purpose-built container port is increasing its berthing space by a more than a third.

  • AC2000 Lite, from CEM
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    Affordable security

    2008-06-12T21:26:00Z

    An affordable integrated security management system, controlling up to 128 doors and providing integrated access control, alarm processing, photo badging security management, and a number of high security modules is now on the market.

  • The Port of Brisbane
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    Introducing a Water and Energy Conservation Plan

    2008-06-12T12:08:00Z

    In the March/April issue of GreenPort, the Port of Brisbane outlined its strategy of operating its port in a sustainable. In this issue, the Port explains how it is working to save water and reduce energy consumption

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    Cutting costs on supply chain

    2008-06-11T21:26:00Z

    Logistics specialist Import Services is offering a cash flow advantage to UK importers with a bonded storage within a short distance of Southampton Port.

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    Fingerprints: Pointing to the complacency trap

    2008-06-11T21:26:00Z

    Biometrics might be the next big security thing, but too must reliance on one solution must be avoided, warns Stuart Pearcey

  • Port Strategy: Guy Herbert, general secretary of NO2ID
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    2008-06-11T21:26:00Z

    To understand what''s meant by ''biometrics'' requires a near dissection of what meaning the word''s intended to carry in any given set of circumstances, says a campaign group.

  • Port Strategy: VPA's Jerry Bridges welcomes the TWICs initiative
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    2008-06-11T21:26:00Z

    About a million US workers will be enrolled in the Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) initiative by the end of this year. The country reached the half-way point of its implementation when the Virginia Port Authority (VPA) started enrolling its workers at Hampton Roads, becoming the 78th port to do ...

  • Port Strategy: Security experty Marc Rotenburg has doubts about the validity of information
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    That's Orwell and good...

    2008-06-11T21:26:00Z

    The predictions in George Orwell''s novel 1984 seemed far-fetched when it was published six decades ago - but seem to be edging ever-closer with the co-operation between five countries to develop the ''server-in-the-sky'' database.

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    Doing it by hand in Halifax

    2008-06-11T21:26:00Z

    The Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia knows its workers like the backs of their hands -  and proves it by allowing (or denying) 4,000 of them access to the right work area by scanning the vascular pattern on their hands.

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    Opinion Piece- USA

    2008-06-11T21:26:00Z

    The designation of "hands-on manager" is not always a compliment; it''s sometimes used derisively to describe someone who somehow advanced from the docks (or other "blue collar" work) up the rungs of the executive ladder.

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    Crane Cabs

    2008-06-11T21:26:00Z

    With cabs getting ever more sophisticated, crane workers are more akin to their office-based counterparts than ever before, as Alex Hughes discovers

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    Productivity gains on the back of software introduction

    2008-06-11T21:26:00Z

    If you look back over the last 50 years, the introduction of software to monitor productivity has definitely been one of the major advances in helping to improve it, says Associated British Ports'' Danny Carmichael.