All Products & Services articles – Page 73

  • News

    Fender choices driven by price

    2011-09-21T10:00:00Z

    Price-driven fender purchases could “increase costs and reduce the efficiency of ports over the longer-term”, according to research from Trelleborg Marine Systems.

  • John Wright: Breaking the ‘mental concrete’ of wrongly-held perception can be difficult
    News

    Challenging a communication culture

    2011-09-15T14:09:00Z

    Ineffective communication could be losing port and terminal operations significant sums of hard money. Or, as Captain John Wright of WrightWay Training told Port Strategy, “One plus one plus one doesn’t always equal three.”

  • A research vessel ‘sniffed’ the airborne pollutants from the Margrethe Maersk as it approached the coast
    News

    Clean fuel will save lives in port areas

    2011-09-15T14:09:00Z

    A research paper published this week showed that air pollution near ports and next to shipping lanes drops dramatically when vessels shift to cleaner, low-sulphur fuels.

  • News

    New AGVs replace first-generation vehicles

    2011-09-15T10:28:00Z

    Gottwald is supplying 22 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to Europe Container Terminals (ECT) in Rotterdam, a long-term customer.

  • News

    TOS for Polish inland facility

    2011-09-15T10:25:00Z

    PCC Intermodal is to start to deploy an Autostore Terminal Operating System (TOS) at its Kutno inland terminal in central Poland, a key national and international railroad nexus.

  • The damaged equipment at SNSG’s facilities in Norway
    News

    Shiploader to the rescue

    2011-09-15T10:23:00Z

    Since a March storm destroyed the Store Norske Spitsbergen Grubekompani (SNSG) aged loading equipment, the company has been trying to replace it – but its been left with a very tight timeframe.

  • Refurbished cranes offer greater dynamic performance and environmental benefits
    News

    Portunus refurbishment gains

    2011-09-09T14:51:00Z

    DP World Aden has appointed Portunus to undertake refurbishment of four RTG cranes.

  • The first hydrogen-fuel cell to electric Class 8 truck is to prove its commercial viability at LA and LB
    News

    From pie in the sky to rubber on the road

    2011-08-22T17:26:00Z

    The world''s first hydrogen-fuel Class 8 truck is being put to the test in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

  • News

    Ohio's high tech intermodal terminal

    2011-08-22T17:26:00Z

    CSX Intermodal Terminals has implemented a terminal operating system (TOS) at its new Northwest Ohio intermodal terminal (NWOH) that should lever extra value from its cutting-edge approach.

  • News

    Free emissions advice

    2011-08-22T17:25:00Z

    Materials handling supplier Barloworld is offering free advice to UK ports and terminals covering the new Tier 4i/Stage IIIB emission regulations that affect equipment such as reachstackers, empty container handlers and high capacity forklift trucks.

  • Not just a matter of where, but what’s in the box?
    News

    A matter of visibility

    2011-08-22T17:24:00Z

    At present, when people talk about ‘supply chain visibility’ they tend to mean the container itself, and not the cargo within. However, a new project aims to take the lid off this opacity.

  • News

    Chassis control system in New Jersey

    2011-08-22T17:22:00Z

    Maher Terminals in Elizabeth, NJ, has implemented eModal’s Chassis Control solution. The system was also inaugurated at two off-dock chassis depots at the same time. Chassis Control offers terminal operators and chassis providers, such as TRAC Intermodal, enhanced control and management of chassis access at key operational facilities.

  • Peter Sands: Global supply chains provide efficiencies of scale, but have also increased interdependencies between economies
    News

    Globalisation: not always a saving grace

    2011-08-18T15:41:00Z

    It seems the sector is, to an extent, the victim of its own success, says Peter Sands of BIMCO in the organisation’s recent Shipping Markets Overview.

  • Resurgence in port investment benefits Cavotec
    News

    Cavotec maintains steady growth

    2011-08-10T22:23:00Z

    A "continued resurgence in investment in port infrastructure" has prompted a flurry of orders for Cavotec cable reels, shore-to-ship power systems, MoorMaster automated mooring units and Panzerbelt cable protection systems, according to the company.

  • Dominique Lebreton: dealing with what “the international paradox... private and public objectives that don’t necessarily sit easily together”
    News

    Its not the software, its the attitude

    2011-08-04T15:40:00Z

    It may be more of a surprise to some than others: a recent survey on Port Community Systems showed that the hard part of the necessary development isn’t the software aspect at all, it’s the people.

  • Cargotec subsidiary Bromma believes sensitive intellectual property has been stolen
    News

    Cargotec moves to protect Bromma copyright

    2011-07-27T19:37:00Z

    Equipment specialist Cargotec has filed a lawsuit in Sweden against SweFrame Port Equipment claiming inter alia for damages due to "theft and use by SweFrame of Bromma''s sensitive product information".

  • News

    Worldwide go-lives for Navis

    2011-07-23T17:57:00Z

    Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) in South Africa has implemented the Navis SPARCS N4 terminal operating system (TOS) at its seventh terminal.

  • News

    New technology with local input

    2011-07-23T17:56:00Z

    Sydney Ports Corporation in Australia and the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) in the Philippines are both implementing the SensorSmart Platform and related applications.

  • News

    Bromma expands in China

    2011-07-23T17:53:00Z

    Stockholm-based Bromma, has won an order for a total of sixteen crane spreaders for delivery to the Port of Huanghuagang at Hebei in Northeast China. The contract includes an order for six STS45 separating twin-lift spreaders and an order for ten YSX40 yard spreaders. China, where Bromma already has more ...

  • Most ports believe shipping companies will commit a higher degree of business if investment levels increase
    News

    Ports believe in investment

    2011-07-23T17:45:00Z

    Almost half (47%) of port owners, contractors and consultants believe that investment in new port-side infrastructure will directly contribute to creating new business – even if they can’t establish a direct link.