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Tratos wins Khalifa cable deal
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
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.
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NewsBetter search launched on greenport.com
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.
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News'Panama Effect' keeps West Coast guessing
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.
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NewsEnhanced Funnelback search launched on portstrategy.com
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.
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NewsDouble trouble depresses volumes
Canada and the environment converge on US West Coast ports, as Martin Rushmere discovers
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NewsTanzania to tackle Tanga congestion
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.
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NewsFree WPCI carbon calculator unveiled
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.
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NewsHutchison's Harwich extension on the back burner
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
Several months of strikes at Tanger Med have come to an end following an agreement between port stevedores and terminal operator Eurokai Contship Italia.
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NewsPLA hub investment tops £10m
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
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.
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NewsAntwerp cracks down on illegal waste
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.
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NewsGoing natural with refrigeration
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).
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NewsLow sulphur timetable impossible?
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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Cavotec electrified by DPW order
DP World’s Jebel Ali facility has turned to Cavotec for the electrification of eight of its rubber-tyred gantry cranes.
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NewsLiebherr multi-purpose crane order
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
Cargotec has paired up with Singapore Technologies Kinetics to develop automated port equipment.
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NewsLiebherr double for Turkey
Liebherr Container Cranes is to supply double boom ship-to-shore container cranes to TCEEGE Container Terminal in Aliaga, Turkey.
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Santos secures terminal loan
The Inter-American Development Bank has closed a $430m syndicated loan with four international banks to build a new private mixed-use container and liquids terminal at Brazil’s Santos Port.
