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NewsGermany keeps crane control real
Specialist manufacturer Emotron has developed a new crane centre in Wernigerode, Germany, where customers can experience live simulation of crane control.
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Overheight frame complements Bromma range
Sweden''s spreader specialist Bromma Group has added an overheight frame to its product range.
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NewsNew floodlight shines bright
Hazardous area lighting specialist Victor Lighting has developed a new floodlight for harsh industrial environments.
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NewsStrainstall celebrates automated success
A leading supplier of jetty management systems, Strainstall AMTS Ltd, has reported significant contract success.
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PureTech upgrades surveillance software
Arizona-based PureTech System Inc has released version 8 of its PureActiv Wide Area Surveillance software.
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NewsTarget zone improves straddle operations
A simple product developed to visuallyaid straddle carrier operators load containers on trucks is reducing handling times, alleviating insurance claims and may even blossom into a lucrative export.
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NewsFlexsim first with container terminal tool
Utah-based Flexsim Software Products has created a new simulation tool specifically geared towards container terminal planning.
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Jade outshines competition for lucrative Gdansk contract
Poland''s DCT Gdansk has selected Jade Software Corporation''s (JSC) port operating software for the management of the country''s only deepwater container terminal, scheduled to open on June 1, 2007.
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NewsFuture-proof
Bremen/Bremerhaven secures feedership role for the future as JadeWeserPort project gets go-ahead. Tom Todd reports
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Changing tide of German opinion
Few now appear to doubt the future strategic importance of what will be Germany’ s only deep-water container terminal: the idea, once scoffed at, appears to have literally grown on Germans.
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Lübeck's share sights
City hopes to boost future port prospects with a majority share sell off to an experienced port operator, as Tom Todd reports
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Sassnitz-Mukran eager to fill unused capacity
Germany’ s easternmost deep-water port,Sassnitz- Mukran, expects planned new rail-ferry links this year with Russia will help solve its problem of unused capacity and hopes more cruiseships will fill the rest.
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NewsDouble-edged strategy
Kiel’ s focus on the two Cs of cruise and cargo should keep it on a steady course, as Tom Todd reports
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Multi-sector plan encourages Rostock cargo growth
Although best known for booming ferry and ro-ro traffic, east Germany’ s biggest port, Rostock, continues to surprise, with eggs in many baskets as part of a strategy of universal, multisector development.
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NewsSteely determination
Ports are a critical hub in the steel industry’ s just-in-time supply chain.Felicity Landon looks at the challenges
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NewsStrengthening systems
Teesport has the luxury of challenging its steel handling methods under a ten-year contract, as Felicity Landon finds out
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NewsFacing the real challenges
Steel handling specialist WE Dowds says unloading vessels and filling up warehouses is “ the relatively straightforward part” . “ The real challenge, and the benchmark we use to gauge how well we are doing, is to deliver the material on time to the right customer,” says chairman Charles Dowds.
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NewsBeat the orderbook blues
In terms of price and lead time, it can often make sense for a terminal operator to buy second-hand, rather than new. Alex Hughes reports
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NewsSecond-hand still a niche market
Liebherr registers five to 10 secondhand deals for mobile harbour cranes each year,compared will sales of around 70 new units. In the reachstacker business, where the company has a more reduced presence, it undertakes annual second-hand deals involving two to four machines. Spokesperson Thomas Bachmann notes that there are a ...
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NewsPanning for gold
Not all second-hand equipment is good equipment. Alex Hughes finds out that you need guarantees, quality assurance and, crucially, spares
