All Port Strategy articles in Web Issue – Page 591
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SME secures funding for tidal energy in Orkney
UK-based marine engineering company, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME), has arranged a £4.5m funding package to begin deploying an array of its PLAT-O tidal energy systems at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney.
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Cavotec and ABB partner up for shore-to-ship power
Engineering giant, Cavotec, and energy technology company, ABB, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly offer worldwide shore-to-ship power solutions.
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Mixed reviews for North European ports
This year has started out to be a particularly bad one in terms of the negative affect that the downturn in GDP is having on North European Ports, according to Hackett Associates'' latest Global Port Tracker.
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Shore to ship power partnership
Cavotec and ABB have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly offer complete shore-to-ship power solutions globally.
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Channel optimisation software to improve scheduling
Force Technology has announced that it has joined forces with DHI to develop a new method to evaluate and quantify the approach and departure operability issues for ports.
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Water cleaning technologies
Alfa Laval will present its spectrum of technologies and services to help the industry reduce their environmental footprint from water and waste streams at the IFAT exhibition in Munich.
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Need for port pricing overhaul
Port pricing is said to be an essential tool for solving the main challenges currently posed to the industry by mega-ships.
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Milford Haven’s green strategies help performance
The Port of Milford Haven has performed strongly thanks in part to increased volumes of LNG and a diversification strategy focusing on marine renewables.
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ESPO Conference 2016 preview
This year’s ESPO Conference will see the European port industry, stakeholders and EU policy makers gather in Dublin on 2 and 3 June.
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CSA wins Icelandic contract
Central Systems & Automation (CSA) will implement Autostore Terminal Operating System (TOS) for Eimskip.
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Hybrid transport system
Adgero has unveiled an operational energy-saving, hybrid electric system for road transport at the Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham, UK.
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Thordon Bearings sums it up
Converting propeller shaft bearings to seawater-lubricated from the traditional oil-lubricated systems prevents millions of litres of operational oil from polluting the world’s oceans. Now that figure is quantifiable thanks to a bespoke modelling tool developed by Canada-based Thordon Bearings.
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Hyster adapts forklift to meet challenge
The Hyster Special Projects Engineering Department has adapted its 40 tonne lift capacity forklift to meet the challenges of a tough stevedoring application.
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Better revenue generation through big data
Big data could be harnessed to overhaul the simplistic pricing patterns in use at the majority of ports today, an audience at TOC Asia was told.
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European countries holding back digitalisation
The Association of European Vehicle Logistics has said that legal uncertainty and a lack of uniform implementation of exiting European and International legislation by Member States is holding back EU wide digitalisation.
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EFTA Court’s landmark ruling on dockers’ pools
The Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association States, more commonly known as the EFTA Court, has delivered a landmark judgement on the incompatibility of the monopoly of Norwegian dockers with EU rules on free competition, free movement and human rights.
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Container returns
The industry is entering a period where the money to be made from container terminals investments is markedly less than it used to be, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants.
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Container weighing rules are coming
Ports that remain unconcerned by incoming container weighing regulations will be in for a shock come July 1, 2016.
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Manta future still not clear
The previous announcement by Ecuador''s president Rafael Correa that the Chilean company Agunsa would be awarded a concession to operate the expanded port of Manta now seems to have been a little premature.
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New Brazilian Ports Minister resigns
Brazil''s Ports Minister, Helder Barbalho, has resigned from the government of President Dilma Rousseff, who is currently under threat of impeachment.