Equipment – Page 108

  • Senator Murray extols OSCs virtues
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    Operation Safe Commerce gets thumbs-up

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    US Senator Patty Murray has declared the test phase of Operation Safe Commerce (OSC) a " resounding" success.

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    How secure is your PIN asks TT Club

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    It' s a question that worries us all as we struggle to control our banking and credit card transactions in these days of chips and, particularly, Personal Identification Numbers, or PINs. But in fact, warns the transport insurance provider TT Club, we should be even more worried about the security ...

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    IGNORE US AT YOUR PERIL

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    A study just published on the global container feeder industry offers some interesting views and data to port readers, not the least of which is that it is a big mistake to treat the sector as a poor relation. Mike Mundy takes a look.

  • Tideworks supporting military operations
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    Tideworks Technology for military

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Tideworks Technology of Seattle has been selected to be part of a team led by Computer Sciences Corporation to provide terminal operating system support to the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU) in North Carolina, USA.

  • Kalmar is convinced new design efficiencies built into its medium capacity range of FLTs underpin increased sales
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    ..and reports success for medium-weight FLTs

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Nearly two years on from its introduction, Kalmar is reporting success with its medium-weight FLT range offering capacities of between nine and 18 tonnes. Greater service intervals, enhanced availability and operating costs 15% lower than other models are all claimed by Kalmar in the light of operational experience. Further, the ...

  • Gottwalds HPK 330EG: destined for pontoon-mounted work in Mississippi
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    ..and Gottwald diversification

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Gottwald Port Technology has announced its diversification into another sector of the cargo-handling equipment supply market - pontoon mounted cranes, or barge cranes. At the same time, it has reported the first order from its new HPK range of Harbour Pontoon Cranes, a HPK 330 EG unit destined for service ...

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    ABG BAGS MORRIS DESIGNS

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Tideworks is to install its Mainsail Terminal Management System and Spinnaker Planning Management System at the terminal - integrated terminal operating and planning software solutions for marine terminals, intermodal yards and container depots.The India-based ABG Group has acquired from the receiver the designs for the Morris port cranes including ship-to-shore ...

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    Kalmar to open Shanghai assembly plant..

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Cargo handling equipment supplier Kalmar is to invest $10m in a new assembly plant in the Shanghai area.

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    Mobile achievement..

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Mobile crane manufacturers are enjoying a buoyant time with Liebherr-Werk Nenzing announcing an order for its 100th model LHM 400 mobile and Gottwald Port Technology reporting that up until the midyear point it received orders for 15 of its model HMK 300 E mobile cranes with the latest order coming ...

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    HPC CTIS FOR PICT

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Liebherr-Werk Nenzing's 100th unit order was placed by the Iranian Ports and Shipping Organisation, a long time client of the company which has now ordered a total of 26 mobile units including two LHM 250 units in 2002 and nine LHM 500 units in 2003, offering a maximum capacity of ...

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    OOI selects ESC systems

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Two US east coast terminals of the Orient Overseas International (OOI) group, which has the same parent company as Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), have placed orders for Embarcadero Systems Corporation' s (ESC) smartGATE suite and Intelligent Camera system to manage their gate operations.

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    SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS TAKEN UP FROM A BROADER INDUSTRY BASE

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    ESC's gate technologies will be deployed for the inbound and outbound security gates at Global Terminal and Container Services, Inc. in Jersey City and at New York Container Terminal (NYCT), formerly Howland Hook Container Terminal, on Staten Island.Software-based terminal management and operating solutions are on the increase as the industry ...

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    Mafi tractors arrive in Piraeus

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    ESC's gate technologies will be deployed for the inbound and outbound security gates at Global Terminal and Container Services, Inc. in Jersey City and at New York Container Terminal (NYCT), formerly Howland Hook Container Terminal, on Staten Island.Twelve Mafi ro-ro tractors have just been delivered to Piraeus. Supplied in full ...

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    KOPER ORDERS UP SSG

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Konecranes VLC Corporation has received an order for a Panamax dimension ship-to-shore gantry from the Luka Container Terminal at the Port of Koper.

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    Search mirror redesign

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    UK-based security equipment specialist PW Allen has redesigned its range of CEM Search mirrors - mirrors used to look under vehicles and access other normally difficult to-access areas.

  • DEMES AMAZONE deepening the port of Freeport, Bahamas: works were completed early 2004
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    THE BOOM IS OVER BUT IT'S NOT A COLLAPSE

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The total market for global capital dredging projects is worth somewhere in the region of € 7 billion although only about half the contracts awarded could be said to be the result of genuinely open tenders.

  • URSA at work in Coega
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    DREDGING PROGRESS AT SOUTH AFRICA'S NEW DEEPWATER PORT

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Dredging for South Africa' s new Coega deepwater port in the Eastern Cape is progressing for completion by the end of the year. The project - on Algoa Bay at the mouth of the Coega River - is designed to act as a catalyst for regional economic development. The new ...

  • Planned STS installation at Deurganckdok
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    Antwerp STS orders for Kalmar

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Kalmar has received an order for six (plus three options) super post-Panamax STS container cranes from a consortium led by P& O Ports Antwerp for the new Antwerp Gateway terminal at the Deurganckdok on the Schelde left bank. With an outreach of 55 metres, the high-speed cranes will be capable ...

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    Milford Haven's new pilot system

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Milford Haven has become the first port in the UK to invest in a portable satellite-based system to help pilots guide ships along the waterway to their berths with pinpoint accuracy. The £ 60,000 E-Sea Fix, supplied by Atlantas Marine Ltd, is a selfcontained, portable piloting and docking system which ...

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    YASIN

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The 1,000m 3trailing suction hopper dredger YASIN was named and launched at IHC' s Kinderdijk yard. The dredger is being built for Iran' s Ports & Shipping Organization (PSO) for maintenance in Iran' s Caspian Sea ports.