All Equipment articles – Page 99

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    VAN OORD RECLAIMS IN BAHRAIN

    2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The new spreader damping ('anti-sway') system consists of two backwards mounted damping cylinders. It performs the multiple tasks of achieving 'controlled sway' of the container spreader under highly variable dynamic load conditions giving the same amount of 'controlled sway' of the spreader when the machine is without container, lifting an ...

  • AutoStrads: motion ccontrol and navigation systems
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    AutoStrad terminal enters new period

    2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The world''s first fully automated straddle carrier (AutoStrad) system started large-scale operations in Patrick Corporation''s Fisherman Islands'' facility in Brisbane when Berths 7, 8, and 9 officially opened for business in December.

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    VETERANS INDUSTRY APPLY TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

    2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Transportation industry veterans have launched a new information technology firm focused on helping the container shipping industry address transportation challenges. TransTech Partners has been founded by Catherine Tiersten, former coo of Global Transportation Solutions and Steven W. Bushey, former President of Americas Systems.

  • Jonathan Himoff: real-world events force time-sensitive re-scheduling
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    50% of planning time lost on re-scheduling

    2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

    67% of oil and bulk shipping companies believe fleet scheduling is getting more difficult. The majority of fleet chartering and scheduling managers spend half of their working week re-planning existing schedules according to a survey of oil and bulk carriers by scheduling software specialist, Magenta Technology. 56% of respondents said ...

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    TRANSAS

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Navsoft of Rio de Janeiro and Transas USA have teamed to provide an Automatic Identification System (AIS)-based marine surveillance and monitoring solution for the CVRD port of Ponta da Madeira, Sao Luis, Maranhao state.

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    Tideworks

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Tideworks has launched a new Mainsail Ro-Ro module aimed at helping terminal operators more efficiently manage their rolling stock and other non-containerised cargoes.

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    SAAB

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    TransponderTech has won a contract to supply Automatic Identification System (AIS) base stations in China as part of a major extension of AIS coverage along China''s coastline.

  • Siwertell ship unloader at Flour Mills, Apapa, Lagos
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    Siwertell supplies Mersey

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    A new high capacity screwtype ship unloader has been ordered for Seaforth Grain Terminal in Liverpool from BMH Marine. In future bulk carriers of up to 75,000 dwt will be discharged at the terminal with unloading capacities of up to 1800 tons/hour.

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    Noble selects Magenta

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Magenta Technology''s intelligent scheduling and continuous planning application, i-Scheduler, has been selected by supply chain manager Noble Group to facilitate co-ordination of its logistics operations.

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    Kalmar

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Kalmar has established its own subsidiary in India through the acquisition of 51% of Indlift, which has been the agent for Kalmar products in India since 2000.

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    Hot potato

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    In the dredging business the impact of environmental and social factors can never be overlooked and there is no better example of these interests clashing with commercial and economic considerations than Port Phillip Bay, the conduit to the port of Melbourne.

  • Worldwide Container Throughputs 1990-2015 (million TEUs)
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    What's happening where

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The major European contractors Royal Boskalis Westminster, Van Oord, Jan de Nul and DEME, are estimated to share 60% of the global dredging market whilst contractors based in Asia and the US, namely Penta Ocean, Hyundai, Samsung and Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, together with various regional and local players, ...

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    Gottwald's golden geese

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Besides strong MHC sales, Gottwald is reporting important milestones in the automated port technologies segment with the first ASC Automated Stacking Crane order and successful launch of the E-AGV series, the diesel-electric version of the diesel-hydraulic AGV Automated Guided Vehicle.

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    The reclaim game

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The rationale for capital and maintenance dredging is one thing but land reclamation is driven by an entirely separate set of criteria. Many ports still have little idea of the economics involved and so don''t even consider reclamation.

  • Van Oord at work in Korea
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    Politics never far away

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    As container ships get bigger, as LNG projects proliferate, as ports compete for traffic, inevitably the call to deepen approach channels, harbours and berths grows louder. And in some cases, so do the howls of protest. Nick Elliott reports.

  • Brommas Marathon spreader
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    Bromma selected by APMT

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Bromma is to supply APM Terminals 34 Marathon YSX45E electric spreaders for the new automated container terminal under development on the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth, Va.

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    All for one and one for all

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The world''s most powerful self-propelled ocean-going cutter suction dredger was christened in Dunkirk recently.

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    ADSTEAM

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Adsteam Marine is to invest in four new tugs for ports on the Thames and Medway, and at Felixstowe and Southampton, all for delivery next year.

  • The LRS645 at St Petersburg
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    Liebherr's LRS 645 reaches east

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    As part of Saigon New Port''s expansion of its Cat Lai Container Terminal in Ho Chi Minh City, Liebherr is to supply two LRS645 reachstackers.

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    VISY

    2005-11-01T00:00:00Z

    The manpower required for conventional lashing of trailers on a typical North Sea freight ro-ro is 32. However, utilising the IPSI Trailer Trestle system this figure is reduced to just 10. With the high cost of port workers and seamen in northern Europe, the savings are significant, says TTS.LPR(License Plate ...