Container & Cargo Handling – Page 69
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Get in early and get the jump on corrosion
Operators looking to start construction of a new port or terminal should consider corrosion early on. While it''s often low on the list of priorities, a few dollars spent at the start could protect ports from serious profit erosion down the line.
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Newsterminal tractor item
Los Angeles is coming down hard on polluting terminal tugs, as Stuart Pearcey finds out
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NewsCrane Cabs
With cabs getting ever more sophisticated, crane workers are more akin to their office-based counterparts than ever before, as Alex Hughes discovers
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NewsPortek article
Portek chairman Larry Lam and executive director Ooi Boon Hoe examine the ''cascade effect'' in container shipping and the future implications for regional and feeder ports
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Containership cascade
· MPX (mid panamax) - 2,000 teu-3,500 teu · LPX (large panamax) - 3,500 teu-4,500 teu · PPX (post panamax) - 4,500 teu-6,000 teu · LPPX (large post panamax) - 6,000 teu-8,000 teu · SPPX ...
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NewsPlaying dirty: extra danger in any cargo
The challenge of neutralising undeclared ''dangerous'' cargoes passing through ports today is greater than ever, as Stuart Pearcey reports
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Down and dirty
Hidden within a perfectly innocent cargo, a dirty bomb is created by combining radioactive nuclear waste material and conventional explosives.
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dangerous cargo: sidebar 2
When is a hazard not a hazard? When the classification makes it expensive, if events in Kenya are any yardstick.
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Add dangerous cargo: sidebar 1
On the European side of the Atlantic, news that a shipment of weapons-ready plutonium was to be taken in an unarmed ship from Sellafield in Cumbria to France caused a media furore recently. The material has to be shipped because Sellafield had to call on its French competitor for help ...
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NewsUst-Luga article
Red tape and selective governing is holding back potential at the country''s coal port growth, as Alex Hughes finds out
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NewsSecond-hand, not second class
The northeast England port of Blyth found second-hand to be the best option when it required an additional reachstacker for its container operations; it has recently bought a second-hand Terex TFC45 R.
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NewsSaigon Port runs with the big boys
Come 2010 a slew of new terminals should help Vietnam realise its exporting potential, writes Wing Kah-goh from Ho Chi Minh City
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NewsSecond-hand - saving time, money and resources
Buying second-hand equipment can save you time and money - and there is even the useful side-effect that you are saving environmental resources, too. Felicity Landon reports
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NewsBuenaventura bubble
Colombian port lynchpin has had more than it''s fair share of man-made and natural disruptions, as Rob Ward discovers
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Newscement feature
Money from vigourous cement demand continues to pour in for ports happy to handle this needy minor bulk, as Stuart Pearcey reports
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NewsRTG article
Could variable speed generators be the RTG cost-saving measure they appear to be? Alex Hughes investigates
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NewsCapacity spread
Tandem lifts have come of age and both small and large terminals can now justify the benefits of multi-lifts. Alex Hughes reports
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NewsFloating cranes
Innovation is the watchword for equipment designers purveying a new generation of floating crane solutions to port executives, as Mike King discovers
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NewsA viable container solution?
Mario Terenzio, formerly of CoeClerici Logistics, remains one of the stalwarts of the floating crane handling sector with a string of successes in the bulk market. Now plying his trade as chief executive of Genoa-based Logmarin Advisors, he is now examining the potential of the container sector.
