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    Tideworks

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Tideworks has launched a new Mainsail Ro-Ro module aimed at helping terminal operators more efficiently manage their rolling stock and other non-containerised cargoes.

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    Noble selects Magenta

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Magenta Technology''s intelligent scheduling and continuous planning application, i-Scheduler, has been selected by supply chain manager Noble Group to facilitate co-ordination of its logistics operations.

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    TRANSAS

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Navsoft of Rio de Janeiro and Transas USA have teamed to provide an Automatic Identification System (AIS)-based marine surveillance and monitoring solution for the CVRD port of Ponta da Madeira, Sao Luis, Maranhao state.

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    Kalmar

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Kalmar has established its own subsidiary in India through the acquisition of 51% of Indlift, which has been the agent for Kalmar products in India since 2000.

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    Bromma selected by APMT

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Bromma is to supply APM Terminals 34 Marathon YSX45E electric spreaders for the new automated container terminal under development on the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth, Va.

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    Gottwald's golden geese

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Besides strong MHC sales, Gottwald is reporting important milestones in the automated port technologies segment with the first ASC Automated Stacking Crane order and successful launch of the E-AGV series, the diesel-electric version of the diesel-hydraulic AGV Automated Guided Vehicle.

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    ADSTEAM

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Adsteam Marine is to invest in four new tugs for ports on the Thames and Medway, and at Felixstowe and Southampton, all for delivery next year.

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    Siwertell supplies Mersey

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    A new high capacity screwtype ship unloader has been ordered for Seaforth Grain Terminal in Liverpool from BMH Marine. In future bulk carriers of up to 75,000 dwt will be discharged at the terminal with unloading capacities of up to 1800 tons/hour.

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    Liebherr's LRS 645 reaches east

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    As part of Saigon New Port''s expansion of its Cat Lai Container Terminal in Ho Chi Minh City, Liebherr is to supply two LRS645 reachstackers.

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    All for one and one for all

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The world''s most powerful self-propelled ocean-going cutter suction dredger was christened in Dunkirk recently.

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    Four shortlisted for Sethusamudram

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Jan de Nul/Boskalis, Hyundai Engineering, Dredging International and Van Oord have been shortlisted for the contract to undertake dredging on three sections of the US$537m Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project . The entire project will involve four tranches of dredging of which the first has already been awarded to the Dredging ...

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    KOCHI

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    These include NYK, MOL, CMA CGM, PSA, HPH, Evergreen, Container Corporation of India, Larsen & Toubro and Gammon India. A contract is expected to be awarded in September or October.Partial approval has been given to a proposal by India Gateway Terminal for an increase in charges at Kochi. An 8% ...

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    KEMBLA GATEWAY

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    These include NYK, MOL, CMA CGM, PSA, HPH, Evergreen, Container Corporation of India, Larsen & Toubro and Gammon India. A contract is expected to be awarded in September or October.Challenges from four companies are threatening Kembla Gateway's plans to upgrade, landing the company in the New South Wales Land and ...

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    TT Club counts the cost

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    TT Club has revealed the latest estimate of its claims exposure from hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma and announced its underwriting stance for next year''s policy renewals.

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    No room for complacency

    2005-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Gazing into the future of the trade from a terminal capacity perspective, Drewry''s ports director Neil Davidson told PS: " Our analysis of supply and demand at the major North European deepsea container ports including UK, shows that even with the new developments which we definitely know are coming on ...

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    Riding the Rollercoaster

    2005-11-01T00:00:00Z

    It''s a tumultuous, not to say precarious time to be reviewing this trade, as Nick Elliott reports.

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    Liner market concentration presages omens for ports

    2005-11-01T00:00:00Z

    The global ports industry is going to face the repercussions of a major shift in the market power of the dominant 5-10 carriers that will lead to an urgent need for the industry to evaluate its future strategy.

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    Cork gets new security system

    2005-11-01T00:00:00Z

    CEM Systems has supplied its AC2000 SE integrated security management system for installation at Cork. The contract was awarded by ADT Fire & Security and will be supported by an advanced CCTV system and intercom network, part of a major contract ADT has signed with the Port of Cork to ...

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    Stolen excavator recovered at port

    2005-11-01T00:00:00Z

    A JCB excavator bound for Ireland has been seized at a port in Lancashire after plant and equipment investigators National Plant and Equipment Register (TER) identified it as stolen.

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    Hutch wades in

    2005-11-01T00:00:00Z

    HPH''s recently reported foray into St Petersburg will certainly shake things up in the region. Its impending US$150m acquisition of 50% of the port''s First Container Terminal and 37% of the Baltic Container Terminal (time for some fresh thinking on the naming of these terminals perhaps? ) at Ust-Luga 110km ...