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    APS wins quay crane OCR contract

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    APS Technology Group (APS), provider of technology systems that identify and track containerised cargo, is to install Crane OCR systems for APM Terminals'' (APMT) Pier 400 facility in Los Angeles.

  • Innovative drive and control system
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    CVS Ferrari delivery to Britanny

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    CVS Ferrari has delivered three F277.5 reachstackers to a big terminal in Britanny. The F277.5 is able to lift 45 tons in the first row and 25 tons in the second offering a good combination of weight and engine power, manoeuvrability and light ground pressure.

  • Mafis new MT 25 YT terminal tractor at work in the UK
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    Mafi trailers for MSC Valencia

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Mafi has received an order for 32 of its new MT 25 YT terminal tractor from MSC Terminal in Valencia. The new terminal is under construction and the first containership is scheduled for September. The order is split into 26 MT 25 YTs with the latest Cummins engine QSB 5.9 ...

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    MADAGASCAR TERMINAL PLUMPS FOR NAVIS?

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Once deployed, the system will automatically confirm the container load/discharge movements on each of the 14 ship-to-shore cranes in operation.Navis will replace the inhouse terminal operating system (TOS) at ICTSI's Madagascar International Container with its SPARCS TOS that, claims Navis, already handles more than 25% of the world's container volumes.

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    REACHSTACKERS HEAD EAST

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    German spreader manufacturer Bubenzer Systems has ceased sales activities and declared itself insolvent.

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    Transas surveys Malta shipping

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Meeting demands of growing LNG market
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    Adsteam adds two

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Smiths Detection has developed a system that will distinguish between organic and nonorganic materials in cargo.

  • Picton, New Zealand, where the port saved a significant sum by installing automated mooring technology rather than extend the berths, as would have been necessary if conventional mooring lines were used
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    Modelling for safer solutions

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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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    Truck crime: the good news

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Tynes new LHM320: offers the flexibility that a medium-sized port needs
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    Flexible friends

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Aden Container Terminal with the commencement of the Flour Mill Jetty works in the foreground
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    Double deal for consultants

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Royal Haskoning, the engineering, architecture and environmental consultancy, describes its experiences working on two projects for the Yemeni government''s investment arm.

  • Bromma field tests every new spreader design at one of the terminals that serve as its test partners
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    Multilift: for and against

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-01T17:58:00Z

    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.

  • Ports and marinas claim European environmental legislation makes operations such as dredging more expensive.
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    Commission Denies Deficiencies in Environmental Legislation.

    2006-03-01T15:23:00Z

    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

    2006-03-01T00:00:00Z

    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% ...