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  • RAM Spreaders’ success in telescopic mobile harbour crane spreaders for the Americas
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    RAM Spreaders’ success in telescopic mobile harbour crane spreaders for the Americas

    2011-12-05T10:27:00Z

    US/ Brasil - RAM Spreaders has received orders for six new mobile harbour crane telescopic spreaders for Brazil, including four units going to a terminal in Santos Brazil. A further four units have been ordered for new cranes going to a terminal on the West Coast of the USA.

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    Tratos wins Khalifa cable deal

    2011-12-04T10:00:00Z

    Cable manufacturer and supplier Tratos has won a contract for 36 crane cables for United Arab Emirates’ Khalifa Port. The cables are destined for Konecranes automated stacking cranes, which will be delivered next year.

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    Over enthusiastic Customs threat to Vallarpadam

    2011-12-03T10:00:00Z

    The new container shipping service linking the Indian port of Kochi to ports in Europe could be suspended by operator CMA-CGM Hapag-Lloyd if customs officials continue to check seals on all transhipment containers passing through the Vallarpadam terminal.

  • Mercator MD, Andrew Webster, says that the new search facility will deliver faster, more accurate results
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    Better search launched on greenport.com

    2011-12-02T13:24:00Z

    Parent company of GreenPort, Mercator Media has introduced a new and improved ‘search’ functionality for its websites that will provide users with more relevant results faster.

  • The benefits of the expanded Panama Canal might bypass US west coast ports completely. Credit: De Vern
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    'Panama Effect' keeps West Coast guessing

    2011-12-02T10:00:00Z

    What might be called the Panama Canal Syndrome is keeping port planners and executives on the alert over the effect the widened canal will have on US West Coast port traffic.

  • Enhanced search to benefit portstrategy.com users
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    Enhanced Funnelback search launched on portstrategy.com

    2011-12-01T20:30:00Z

    Parent company of Port Strategy, Mercator Media has introduced a new and improved ‘search’ functionality for its websites that will provide users with more relevant results faster.

  • Import volumes at Los Angeles/Long Beach are expected to drop by almost 5% in the fourth quarter over 2010's figures. Credit: D Ramey Logan
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    Double trouble depresses volumes

    2011-12-01T20:26:00Z

    Canada and the environment converge on US West Coast ports, as Martin Rushmere discovers

  • Expansion is afoot in Tanzania
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    Tanzania to tackle Tanga congestion

    2011-12-01T20:24:00Z

    Tanzania Ports Authority is embarking on a huge expansion exercise at Tanga Port in order to meet forecasted traffic growth that will surpass 4m teu by 2028 and to ease current congestion.

  • The calculator can aid emissions assessments and adjustments
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    Free WPCI carbon calculator unveiled

    2011-12-01T20:23:00Z

    The Port of Los Angeles has, as part of the World Ports Climate Initiative, developed a carbon calculator for ports to determine greenhouse gas emissions from their operations and explore reduction strategies.

  • HPH has been granted a 10-year extension to its planning approval. Credit - Harwich International Port
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    Hutchison's Harwich extension on the back burner

    2011-12-01T20:22:00Z

    Following a request from Hutchison Port Holdings, the UK''s Secretary of State for Transport has approved a 10 year extension to the company''s option to build a new $469m container port at Harwich.

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    Tanger Med signs three-year agreement

    2011-12-01T20:22:00Z

    Several months of strikes at Tanger Med have come to an end following an agreement between port stevedores and terminal operator Eurokai Contship Italia.

  • The PLA is looking at continuous expansion
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    PLA hub investment tops £10m

    2011-12-01T20:21:00Z

    The Port of London Authority in the UK has completed the latest development project at its hub Denton Wharf taking total investment there to a tune of £10m, but there''s expansion to come.

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    Maersk ‘no fear’ of overcapacity

    2011-12-01T20:21:00Z

    Maersk Line chief executive, Nils Smedegaard Andersen, has stated that the shipping line’s current structure means that it has no need to fear the predicted overcapacity that will envelop the industry over the next four years.

  • Antwerp are tackling the messy issue of illegal waste accompanying second hand car shipments
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    Antwerp cracks down on illegal waste

    2011-12-01T16:12:00Z

    The Port of Antwerp has been facing waste issues of a different kind recently – more and more second hand cars passing through the port laden with illegal waste.

  • Carrier Transicold's natural refrigerant technology aims to help customers to reduce their carbon footprint
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    Going natural with refrigeration

    2011-11-30T12:14:00Z

    Carrier Transicold is looking to revolutionise refrigeration technology for marine transport with an innovative new concept to reduce environmental impact using the natural refrigerant carbon dioxide (CO2).

  • Interferry has said that the 2015 deadline for SOx reductions is mission impossible
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    Low sulphur timetable impossible?

    2011-11-30T10:24:00Z

    Trade association Interferry says that ferry operators in northern Europe face a near impossible choice in trying to meet the 2015 deadline for ultra low sulphur emissions from bunker fuel.

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    Liebherr multi-purpose crane order

    2011-11-28T15:25:00Z

    Liebherr has confirmed a contract for a new multi-purpose crane which can be used on dock or as an offshore crane.

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    Cargotec partnership on automation

    2011-11-28T15:25:00Z

    Cargotec has paired up with Singapore Technologies Kinetics to develop automated port equipment.

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    Liebherr double for Turkey

    2011-11-28T15:25:00Z

    Liebherr Container Cranes is to supply double boom ship-to-shore container cranes to TCEEGE Container Terminal in Aliaga, Turkey.

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    Cavotec electrified by DPW order

    2011-11-28T15:25:00Z

    DP World’s Jebel Ali facility has turned to Cavotec for the electrification of eight of its rubber-tyred gantry cranes.