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NewsPort Botany expansion benefits region
Construction companies and workers across New South Wales have reaped the rewards from the State Government’s A$1bn (US$876m) Port Botany Expansion project.
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NewsAstute management could have repercussions
The global container terminal operators reported profits in 2009 despite the shipping global recession and shipping calamity.
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NewsFree and easy
Alex Hughes investigates why mobile harbour cranes continue to meet the needs of many terminals
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NewsSustainability: Accelerating Environmental Initiatives
Henrik Kristensen, Head of Corporate Responsibilities at APM Terminals, outlines the company’s strategy for sustainability implementation strategy at
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NewsHow to evaluate transport’s environmental performance
Society’s environmental interest has evolved from a strong focus on local health effects towards more regional impacts on nature. Now, the focus is on global climate change and the use of finite and fossil resources. Thus, evaluation models for transport logistics environmental performance follow the same development path. Magnus Swahn ...
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NewsThe gate keepers
An intelligent gate system is fast becoming a terminal ''must-have'', as Alex Hughes explains
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NewsKuifeend nature conservation area
The Kuifeend + Grote Kreek nature conservation area lies within the Antwerp North railway marshalling yard, right in the middle of the port of Antwerp.
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Ready for biofuels?
Richard Sadler, CEO of Lloyd’s Register, analyses the effect of biofuels on the shipping industry.
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NewsAutomation can reduce gate opening hours
In a bizarre twist of time, Allen Thomas of APS notes that automation often results in gates staying open for less time, since more work can be done in less time.
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NewsAdvantage: Rail
Rail is the key to Duisport’s commercial success. Kasia Kurek, of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, reports
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NewsTackling the challenges of inland ports
The “Binnen_Land” Research project has been established in response to the urgent need to handle increasing volumes of freight more sustainable. Femke Grabbert and Verena Meister of the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg provide an update on the project
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WWL: 32%cut in greenhouse gas emissions
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics cut its green house gas emissions by 32% last year. The company also cut its sulphur dioxide emissions (SO2) emissions by 135,000 tonnes in a nine year period from 2000 to 2009, an amount nearly equal to all the SO2 emissions from road vehicles in the United ...
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NewsIntroducing: The “clean, green, terminal of the future”
Shipping specialists Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has unveiled a futuristic, zero-emissions, marine terminal powered by the sun and the wind
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NewsGaussin introduces Container Terminal Multi-trailer
French port equipment manufacturer Gaussin recently presented the ATT terminal trailer to the market. Now, however, the company has made the next logical step and launched the AMTS – multi-trailer system. Alex Goussiatiner* reports
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NewsLocal positioning overcomes global problems
While the majority of PDS on the market adopt some sort of global positioning satellite technology, the system marketed by Germany’s Symeo uses local wireless technology to counter problems associated with some existing DGPS receivers: that they are unable to supply reliable data due to the high structures commonplace at ...
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NewsTowards a carbon-reduced logistics chain
The GreenPort Logistics conference in Stockholm earlier this year focused on the challenges of carbon reduction in the transport chain
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NewsFinding lost boxes
Terminal operators are investing in state-of-the-art position detection systems to streamline box management, writes Patrik Wheater
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NewsLogistic Chain Management: from environmental protection to sustainable business
The logistic chain must not just focus on environmental protection, but increasingly it must work towards becoming a “sustainable business”. The newly established ECO SLC initiative is aimed at assisting organisations with this challenge. Some of the key issues are analysed by Herman Journée and Chris Wooldridge*
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NewsNo more bids for Forth Ports – for now
A recent spate of takeover bids for the UK''s Forth Ports has come to an end, with would-be suitor Northstream withdrawing a last-ditch attempt to secure the interest of Forth’s board with a £15.00 ($21.70) per share proposal.
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NewsMobile's pledge to stay open, despite spill
The Port of Mobile has said that remaining open to commercial traffic even in the face of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is a necessity, given the economic trials caused by the oil spill.
