All Products & Services articles – Page 108

  • Southern Discomfort in UK prompted new feeder services MDS Transmodals
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    Portals for Immingham

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Gottwald has received an order for two HSK 360 EG four-rope grab portal harbour cranes for a new coal-handling facility from ABP at Immingham. The order is part of ABP' s largestever investment in a terminal development: the £ 44.5m extension of the Humber International Terminal at Immingham with the ...

  • Small feeder vessels hard to find
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    Trellex fenders for Kristiansand

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Two very different types of vessel can now be berthed in comfort at Kristiansand with a new fender installation from Trellex Fender. A new catamaran has joined the existing ferries that operate from Kristiansand to Kiel and Hirtshals in Denmark.

  • Vridi Container Terminal in Abidjan: subject of vigorous protests
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    Multibeam echosounders detect sunken objects

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    SeaBat Multibeam echosounders are becoming essential equipment for port survey activity, says John Fraser, business development manager at Reson Offshore.

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    Remote control system for MHCs and PHCs

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Gottwald has introduced a remote control system for both its HMK mobile and HSK portal harbour cranes, developed with HBCradiomatic. Equipped with an LCD screen, hard buttons and joysticks, the system packs all crane functions in a handy, robust, weatherproof unit. The control elements are identical to those found on ...

  • Senator Murray extols OSCs virtues
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    Operation Safe Commerce gets thumbs-up

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    US Senator Patty Murray has declared the test phase of Operation Safe Commerce (OSC) a " resounding" success.

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    MHC orders buoyant

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Liebherr-Werk Nenzing expects 2004 to be an excellent year for mobile harbour crane sales with orders expected to exceed 60 against a budgeted target of 50. The EU followed by the Far East are Liebherr' s strongest markets but countrywise, India comes top taking eight machines during the first eight ...

  • Mike Garratt: must find a formula acceptable to commercial interests and political institutions
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    BMH Marine strike in Far East

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    BMH Marine has secured orders worth $30m during the summer from customers in Taiwan, India and Singapore for continuous unloading and loading equipment.

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    CSXWT BIDDING UNDERWAY

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Seven parties have expressed interest to CSXWT''s lead bank, Citigroup in the second round of bidding for the company''s portfolio. Parent company CSX Corp wants to sell the business as a single entity although it has terminal operations across four continents. Offers are to be submitted by midNovember and a ...

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    How secure is your PIN asks TT Club

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    It' s a question that worries us all as we struggle to control our banking and credit card transactions in these days of chips and, particularly, Personal Identification Numbers, or PINs. But in fact, warns the transport insurance provider TT Club, we should be even more worried about the security ...

  • Appleton: a greater interest in niche ports
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    Kalmar lifts Alimak

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Orders for 25 Alimak SE-L access lifts for container cranes have been placed by Kalmar for port installations in Rotterdam and Antwerp.

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    Tideworks acquires Sonu Software . . .

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Terminal management and planning software provider, Tideworks, has acquired Sonu Software Solutions. Based in Rotterdam, Sonu is known for its coverage of the conventional cargo and warehousing sector which Tideworks says will complement its existing product line.

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    Search mirror redesign

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    UK-based security equipment specialist PW Allen has redesigned its range of CEM Search mirrors - mirrors used to look under vehicles and access other normally difficult to-access areas.

  • Tideworks supporting military operations
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    Tideworks Technology for military

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Tideworks Technology of Seattle has been selected to be part of a team led by Computer Sciences Corporation to provide terminal operating system support to the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU) in North Carolina, USA.

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    KOPER ORDERS UP SSG

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Konecranes VLC Corporation has received an order for a Panamax dimension ship-to-shore gantry from the Luka Container Terminal at the Port of Koper.

  • Kalmar is convinced new design efficiencies built into its medium capacity range of FLTs underpin increased sales
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    ..and reports success for medium-weight FLTs

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Nearly two years on from its introduction, Kalmar is reporting success with its medium-weight FLT range offering capacities of between nine and 18 tonnes. Greater service intervals, enhanced availability and operating costs 15% lower than other models are all claimed by Kalmar in the light of operational experience. Further, the ...

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    OOI selects ESC systems

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Two US east coast terminals of the Orient Overseas International (OOI) group, which has the same parent company as Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), have placed orders for Embarcadero Systems Corporation' s (ESC) smartGATE suite and Intelligent Camera system to manage their gate operations.

  • Gottwalds HPK 330EG: destined for pontoon-mounted work in Mississippi
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    ..and Gottwald diversification

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Gottwald Port Technology has announced its diversification into another sector of the cargo-handling equipment supply market - pontoon mounted cranes, or barge cranes. At the same time, it has reported the first order from its new HPK range of Harbour Pontoon Cranes, a HPK 330 EG unit destined for service ...

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    HPC CTIS FOR PICT

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Liebherr-Werk Nenzing's 100th unit order was placed by the Iranian Ports and Shipping Organisation, a long time client of the company which has now ordered a total of 26 mobile units including two LHM 250 units in 2002 and nine LHM 500 units in 2003, offering a maximum capacity of ...

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    SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS TAKEN UP FROM A BROADER INDUSTRY BASE

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    ESC's gate technologies will be deployed for the inbound and outbound security gates at Global Terminal and Container Services, Inc. in Jersey City and at New York Container Terminal (NYCT), formerly Howland Hook Container Terminal, on Staten Island.Software-based terminal management and operating solutions are on the increase as the industry ...

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    Kalmar to open Shanghai assembly plant..

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Cargo handling equipment supplier Kalmar is to invest $10m in a new assembly plant in the Shanghai area.