All Equipment articles – Page 109

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    Gottwald looks to logistics

    2004-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Gottwald has been promoting its range as an integral part of the intermodal process. " In view of the trend towards more efficient supply chains and the increasing combination of rail, road and water transport that does not only improve access to markets, but also brings relief to over-stretched road ...

  • Kalmars Christer Granskog: greater volume flexibility
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    Kalmar sharpens its strategy

    2004-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Kalmar is to sell the entire share capital in the cab manufacturer Velsa Inc to Finland' s Rautaruukki Corporation, part of its continuing strategy to concentrate on the marketing, development, assembly and servicing of container and heavy materials handling equipment.

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    Norcontrol IT launches port management software

    2004-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Norcontrol IT has released an ' off-the-shelf' version of its Port Management Information System (PMIS).The company says the PMIS Standard Edition is a cost-effective, scaleable solution designed to provide small to medium sized ports with advanced marine management functionality to enable the safe and efficient management and reporting of vessel ...

  • Liebherrs LRS645: offers hitherto unforeseen handling opportunities
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    Liebherr's reachstacker rationale

    2004-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Liebherr has been explaining the rationale behind its new LRS645 ' banana boom' reachstacker. " When LiebherrWerk Nenzing decided to enter the reachstacker market some three years ago, " says the company, " there were plenty of suppliers offering rather similar models which could fulfil almost the same jobs, i. ...

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    Wising up in Tampa

    2004-11-01T00:00:00Z

    SSA GULF' s Tampa Terminal, formerly Tampa Bay International Terminal (TBIT), is to implement Tideworks' new product line for conventional cargo terminal management, the Wise Product Suite, the first time the Suite will be deployed in the Americas. The Wise products are currently used in facilities throughout northern Europe.

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    Tideworks acquires Sonu Software . . .

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Terminal management and planning software provider, Tideworks, has acquired Sonu Software Solutions. Based in Rotterdam, Sonu is known for its coverage of the conventional cargo and warehousing sector which Tideworks says will complement its existing product line.

  • Appleton: a greater interest in niche ports
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    Kalmar lifts Alimak

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Orders for 25 Alimak SE-L access lifts for container cranes have been placed by Kalmar for port installations in Rotterdam and Antwerp.

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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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    CSXWT BIDDING UNDERWAY

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Seven parties have expressed interest to CSXWT''s lead bank, Citigroup in the second round of bidding for the company''s portfolio. Parent company CSX Corp wants to sell the business as a single entity although it has terminal operations across four continents. Offers are to be submitted by midNovember and a ...

  • Mike Garratt: must find a formula acceptable to commercial interests and political institutions
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    BMH Marine strike in Far East

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    BMH Marine has secured orders worth $30m during the summer from customers in Taiwan, India and Singapore for continuous unloading and loading equipment.

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    MHC orders buoyant

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Liebherr-Werk Nenzing expects 2004 to be an excellent year for mobile harbour crane sales with orders expected to exceed 60 against a budgeted target of 50. The EU followed by the Far East are Liebherr' s strongest markets but countrywise, India comes top taking eight machines during the first eight ...

  • 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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    Remote control system for MHCs and PHCs

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Gottwald has introduced a remote control system for both its HMK mobile and HSK portal harbour cranes, developed with HBCradiomatic. Equipped with an LCD screen, hard buttons and joysticks, the system packs all crane functions in a handy, robust, weatherproof unit. The control elements are identical to those found on ...

  • Equipment used by ports and terminals needs to be rugged and port-proof Wireless data communications have significant cost benefits, claim providers and users
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    WIFI COVERS THE WATERFRONT

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Figures about just how many ports and harbours already make use of wireless data communications in one form or another are hard to come by, but leading WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) providers suggest that 15-20% of ports now use it in some shape or form, and that the numbers of users ...

  • Vridi Container Terminal in Abidjan: subject of vigorous protests
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    Multibeam echosounders detect sunken objects

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    SeaBat Multibeam echosounders are becoming essential equipment for port survey activity, says John Fraser, business development manager at Reson Offshore.

  • UKDS Jeff Neale: protected from fluctuations in the contract market
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    DO-IT-YOURSELF OR OUTSOURCE?

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Should ports with a continuous need for maintenance dredging automatically outsource the work to a contractor? At what point does the do-it-yourself solution make sense? Alex Hughes investigates.

  • Small feeder vessels hard to find
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    Trellex fenders for Kristiansand

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Two very different types of vessel can now be berthed in comfort at Kristiansand with a new fender installation from Trellex Fender. A new catamaran has joined the existing ferries that operate from Kristiansand to Kiel and Hirtshals in Denmark.

  • Southern Discomfort in UK prompted new feeder services MDS Transmodals
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    Portals for Immingham

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Gottwald has received an order for two HSK 360 EG four-rope grab portal harbour cranes for a new coal-handling facility from ABP at Immingham. The order is part of ABP' s largestever investment in a terminal development: the £ 44.5m extension of the Humber International Terminal at Immingham with the ...

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    . . . and KCI Konecranes, SMV

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    KCI Konecranes is to acquire SMV Lifttrucks of Sweden whose product range consists of heavy-duty reachstackers and forklift trucks with lifting capacities of 10 to 60 tons.

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    The next target..

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    " After 9/11 we were getting intelligence briefings saying the next attack may well not be an airline - it may be a vessel. So you have the potential for a vessel carrying a large amount of explosives to be physically sailed up a river and blown up." David Wilson-Le-Moine ...