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REACHSTACKERS HEAD EAST
Liebherr''s LRS 645 reachstacker has found a market in Saigon New Port. Due to its curve-shaped telescopic boom, Liebherr claims the LRS 645 gives unrivalled reach allowing access to 2nd and 3rd row containers without any removal of front row boxes. As the boom shape also enables the loading/unloading of ...
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BYE-BYE BUBENZER SYSTEMS
German spreader manufacturer Bubenzer Systems has ceased sales activities and declared itself insolvent.
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Transas surveys Malta shipping
The contract for Phase 2 of the Malta Vessel Traffic Management and Information System (VTMIS) project, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, has been signed with Transas. It is an advance towards implementation of the Trans-European transport network infrastructure, which is one of the Community''s objectives for developing competitiveness ...
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NewsAdsteam adds two
Adsteam''s Thames and Medway operation has taken delivery of two new Damen 24/11 tugs.
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Savi releases new RFID tag
Global cargo container shipments now can be monitored automatically in especially harsh environments with the latest Savi Technology active RFID tags - the ST-656, a lowprofile, highly durable container tag option with a rich variety of functions, including an audio beeper, to help defence and commercial organisations better locate and ...
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Smiths Detection wins cargo screening contract
Smiths Detection has developed a system that will distinguish between organic and nonorganic materials in cargo.
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NewsModelling for safer solutions
Mooring ships can be dangerous. Every year thousands of terminal and ship staff are injured in mooring line accidents, and in some cases, the accidents can be fatal. David Foxwell reports on the risks and how to mitigate them.
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NewsTruck crime: the good news
Now the TT Club''s TT Talk is always an interesting read. From a recent edition comes this statistical gem: " Good news reaches us from the United States where reader Alan Spear, reports that there has been a remarkable reduction in cargo crime, mainly as an indirect consequence of some ...
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Rosslare Europort gets upgrade
Consultants Royal Haskoning recently became involved in an upgrade project at the Irish port of Rosslare. The project addressed the repair of berths 1 and 2 at Rosslare Europort where the pier is 260m long and was built in the 1950s using two parallel walls of concrete blockwork founded on ...
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NewsFlexible friends
Felicity Landon finds out why these flexible friends have so much to offer to small and medium-sized ports.
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Bespoke tailoring
This year Gottwald officially launches its new Crane Generation 5 range, which it says has been designed in response to the specific requirements of terminal operators, stevedoring companies and shipping companies, and are higher, more powerful and faster.
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NewsDouble deal for consultants
Royal Haskoning, the engineering, architecture and environmental consultancy, describes its experiences working on two projects for the Yemeni government''s investment arm.
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NewsMultilift: for and against
Terminals pursuing growth want to maximise the productivity of every lift cycle. That is why the trend is towards twin-lifts from ship-to-shore and twin-lifts on the yard, says Bromma. But does it necessarily follow that a universal rush to multilift spreaders is justified? Felicity Landon reports.
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Sabah chooses Kalmar
Sabah Ports has placed an order with Kalmar for seven shuttle carriers, four reachstackers, nine 5-high empty container stackers and 26 terminal tractors for its facility at Kota Kinabalu.
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NewsCommission Denies Deficiencies in Environmental Legislation.
Speakers at the first GreenPort Conference in Antwerp in February had a clash of opinion as to whether European environmental legislation, and in particular the Habitats and Water Framework Directives, has inherent deficiencies causing bottlenecks for port development.
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2015 Mediterranean box traffic to reach 91.6m TEU
According to Ocean Shipping Consultants (OSC), container throughput in southern Europe and the Mediterranean will increase somewhere between 35% and 48% by 2015. This would mean terminals in the area needing capacity of between 78.2m and 91.6m TEUs. In the shorter term, traffic is predicted to rise by between 62% ...
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RMS acquires Freshney
Port operator RMS Europe Group has strengthened its position on the Humber following the acquisition of Freshney Cargo Services.
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PIRAEUS
RMS will now have operations in five ports on the Humber and will be able to provide services to clients through handling larger ships with cargoes of up to 30,000 tonnes.COSCO Hellas has expressed interest in taking a stake in Piraeus' container port. A potential deal was discussed during the ...
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NewsCaledonian Canal
It is hoped a recent trial along the Caledonian Canal will open up a new freight logistics gateway for the Scottish Highlands. The trial was undertaken by the ship''s owner in conjunction with the Scottish Executive and British Waterways (Scotland) and demonstrated in a that with technical modifications commercial ship ...
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NewsAPM to boost Algeciras box lifting capability?
APM Terminals is to spend € 48m this year on new equipment for its Algeciras container terminal. The Argentinean manufacturer IMPSA will supply three super post-Panamax gantry cranes for delivery in July, while ZPMC is scheduled to deliver a further two in 2007 as part of an order totalling € ...
