Environment & Sustainability – Page 193
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NewsNew Initiatives
Explore the initiatives that will have a bearing on your future environmental strategy
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Shipping experts explore nuclear power potential
A consortium of British, American and Greek interests have agreed to investigate the practical maritime applications for small modular reactors (SMR) as commercial tanker-owners search for new designs that could deliver safer, cleaner and commercially viable forms of propulsion.
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NewsVariety is key
Cruise Gateway’s partners include some heavy-hitting partners from the sector – such as Kiel, Rotterdam, Bremen, Hamburg and Harwich. But they also include ports such as Esbjerg and Aberdeen, who are starting to build steadily on the advantages they offer the cruise sector.
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NewsAll together now
Air pollution from the international shipping industry takes a huge toll on public health and the climate. It causes tens of thousands of premature deaths each year in coastal port cities
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NewsAnother way to efficiency
“It is really a different approach to our colleagues within the ports, where they are taking very specific environmental actions,” says Michael Stange, who represents the City of Hamburg, Port Integration’s key partner.
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NewsElectrification of rubber-tyred gantries
Conductix-Wampfler headquartered in Weil am Rhein, Germany, has received three large orders for the electrification of rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) in Asia.
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NewsA way through the growth of Green
A ports magazine, e-news and series of events specifically aimed at issues thrown up by the growing environmental agenda is the subject of a new venture by Mercator Media.
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NewsSvitzer order their first ECO tugs - by Jack Gaston
Virtually every tug owner worldwide recognises the need to meet future demands for more environmentally acceptable vessels.
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News“Design in Safety” or “Design for Safety”?
When developing cargo handling equipment, manufacturers need not just to consider the concept of “Designed-in Safety” but also to introduce a “Design for Safety” methodology. Hannu Oja, Konecranes’ Director of Port Technology, explains the differences
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NewsIs “safe” really safe?
In safety, as in the environment, there is often a gap between theory and practice. Tatiana Eggert, of HPTI, investigates
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IMO works to ensure safe lashing of deck containers
Some “momentous” decisions concerning deck lashing of containers were made at the recent meeting of the IMO’s DSC sub-committee meeting
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Safety performance: important progress
Henrik Kristensen detailed APM Terminals’ Safety Culture implementation and approach, which have established new standards of safety performance for the container industry, while addressing the 2nd ICHCA Safe Cargo Handling Seminar in Stockholm, Sweden.
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NewsSustainability: Accelerating Environmental Initiatives
Henrik Kristensen, Head of Corporate Responsibilities at APM Terminals, outlines the company’s strategy for sustainability implementation strategy at
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NewsHow to evaluate transport’s environmental performance
Society’s environmental interest has evolved from a strong focus on local health effects towards more regional impacts on nature. Now, the focus is on global climate change and the use of finite and fossil resources. Thus, evaluation models for transport logistics environmental performance follow the same development path. Magnus Swahn ...
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Ready for biofuels?
Richard Sadler, CEO of Lloyd’s Register, analyses the effect of biofuels on the shipping industry.
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NewsIntroducing: The “clean, green, terminal of the future”
Shipping specialists Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has unveiled a futuristic, zero-emissions, marine terminal powered by the sun and the wind
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NewsGaussin introduces Container Terminal Multi-trailer
French port equipment manufacturer Gaussin recently presented the ATT terminal trailer to the market. Now, however, the company has made the next logical step and launched the AMTS – multi-trailer system. Alex Goussiatiner* reports
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NewsLogistic Chain Management: from environmental protection to sustainable business
The logistic chain must not just focus on environmental protection, but increasingly it must work towards becoming a “sustainable business”. The newly established ECO SLC initiative is aimed at assisting organisations with this challenge. Some of the key issues are analysed by Herman Journée and Chris Wooldridge*
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Green Marine Environmental Results
sustainable future undertaken by the St. Lawrence – Great Lakes maritime industry in both Canada and the U.S., published the individual results attained by the 44 companies participating in the program.
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Growing emissions will cost transport sector, report finds
In a report entitled Sustainable Transport published earlier this year by leading provider of global business information Datamonitor Group (www.datamonitor. com), the conclusion is reached that transport companies can gain competitive advantage by adding sustainable solutions and capabilities to their services as volume returns to the market.
