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Kalmar Eastern coop
Port equipment specialist Kalmar has confirmed an order from PSA Singapore Terminals for in excess of 200 terminal tractors to be delivered this year.
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Flexible dry bulk application
A web-based application for dry bulk terminal management pledges to manage a dry bulk terminal "no matter what type or number of products, warehouses, activities or customers".
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Guaymas build avoiding road
Mexico''s Guaymas Port Authority in cooperation with its municipality is to invest $1.1m on building a new road that will divert heavy goods traffic from the port away from the city centre.
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Isoloader lands scanning gig
The US Department of Energy''s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has awarded a $23m contract to Detector Networks International (DNI) to design and manufacture six straddle carriers with radiation detection capabilities.
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Euromax on autopilot
Netherlands-based software provider TBA has successfully concluded the first phase of testing of Euromax terminal''s automated cargo handling equipment fleet. After the trial, TBA''s automated fleet management system TEAMS was able to remotely control the movement of the Euromax fleet of twenty-eight Automated Guided Vehicles.
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Trinidad's iron grip
Trinidad''s state-owned National Energy Corporation NEC has started construction of a $105m terminal to handle an estimated 4m tonnes of iron ore and 3m tonnes of hot bricketted iron (HBI) and other downstream products each year once it opens at the end of 2009.
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Indonesia urged to up marine investment
The Indonesian Maritime Council has advised the government that its maritime sector could contribute $150bn to the country''s annual income if it is correctly developed. However, it has advised that this can only be achieved if there is a change of focus from land to sea.
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Tideworks take on BCT
Poland''s Baltic Container Terminal has upgraded its terminal operating system to improve efficiency. The new Tideworks System replaces BCT''s old system, which was installed in the late 1990s.
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NewsCMP on a roll
Lars Karlsson, managing director of Copenhagen Malmö Port, believes "the sky''s the limit" at his port, but acknowledges that capacity constraints remain a hurdle.
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Peruvian dockworkers plea
Dockworkers in Peru have asked the government to ramp up investment in the port industry by using profits generated by state port companies to finance modernisation. Callao alone requires investment of $247m, while other regional ports are seeking $64m.
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NewsDPW boosts Indian investment
DP World anticipates investing a further $500m over the next few years in its assets in India. This will take total investment by the company in that country to $2bn.
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Vinalines invests in terminals
State-owned Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) is to spend $300m on building a new port at Ba Ngoi in 2008. In total, it plans to develop two container ports and one multi-purpose port in the country capable of handling larger vessels.
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add Russia/En Europe 2
In the Ukraine the largest and deepest bulk terminal is TIS (TransInvestService Ltd), on the Black Sea 40km south of Odessa. Already equipped with dedicated terminals for ore, coal, grain and fertilisers, the port authority is hard at work creating a container terminal with a capacity of 1.5m teu, which ...
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NewsRussia/En Europe
Russia is waking up to the massive trade potential beyond its closest European neighbours. Stuart Pearcey reports
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Although it''s easy to think of Russia and Eastern Europe seeking to trade with ''the west'', such a figurative notion overlooks the geographic fact that it''s also a Pacific country, and therefore equally-well placed to trade with the east.
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PS Opinion Piece
It is probably not politically correct to say that it was with some amusement that the announcement was noted that parties in the UK endeavouring to carry off beached timber from the stricken Ice Princess would have the full force of the law come down on them.
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NewsVenus at Auckland Port
A computerised second-hand vehicle entry user system (VENUS) introduced by Ports of Auckland has alleviated the paper chain and enabled multiple parties to readily share their electronic data.
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Smaller solutions
Many small- and medium-sized ports are still using "home-made" terminal management systems and often there is resistance to adopting new technology, claims John Holm Jensen, consultant for Denmark''s WM-data.
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NewsFeeling familiar
Terminal operating systems all look and feel fairly similar, says Dave Quennell at Jade.
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NewsSeeing the process through
The introduction of berth scheduling software at Associated Petroleum Terminals (APT) in Immingham a few years ago was not without its difficulties. Bob Law, APT''s oil movements controller, saw the process through. "Many of my colleagues were understandably sceptical," he says. "We had managed berthing operations seemingly quite well until ...
