Friday 5 December 08 - 12:45
 

Planning & Design: Consulting Engineering Project and Capability Review

  • The road less travelled

    Sometimes it pays to break with tradition, as consultants dealing with port citings in the US are discovering. Alex Hughes investigates  

  • Swamp-thing

    Most global port authorities are painfully aware that virtually all the best locations for the citing of major maritime terminals have already been used up. Nevertheless, modern engineering techniques nowadays allow even marginal terrain, including swampland, to be stabilised prior to the establishment of new working areas. 

  • The Prince of intermodalism

    Facing a decline in its bulk exports of pulp, paper and lumber to intermodal markets, the Canadian Port of Prince Rupert had to seek alternatives.  

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