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Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT), located in Adjara, Georgia, has installed a stand alone version of the Spinnaker container management solution from Tideworks. It will be integrated with Spinnakers purpose-built Star Gate…

13th January 2009

Batumi edges into container management

13th January 2009

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APM Terminals is investigating the use of crossover technology from major international airports to help manage the paved areas of terminals.

9th December 2008

APM paves the way

9th December 2008

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TTS Port Equipment has unveiled a new range of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), following a partnership with Numexia to create a zero-emission energy chain system.

3rd December 2008

Automated vehicles go zero

3rd December 2008

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The increasing move towards automated container terminal systems is throwing up even more challenges in handling empties.

5th November 2008

Automated challenge

5th November 2008

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Liebherr has delivered the largest mobile harbour crane in Africa to Intel Nigeria.

2nd October 2008

Big one for Africa

2nd October 2008

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A second LHM 500 Liebherr mobile harbour crane has been put into operation at the Port of Hamburg for Wallmann & Co.

17th September 2008

Hamburg Liebherr family grows

17th September 2008

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A comprehensive system for vehicle surveillance based on license plate recognition (LPR) and an incident management system has been released by HTS and Rontal.

10th September 2008

An eye for tracking

10th September 2008

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Fitting or removing twistlocks on containers, a slow and arduous operation action performed worldwide over a billion times a year, can now be done by an electro-hydraulic machine - the RAM PinSmart…

24th July 2008

Automation for old task

24th July 2008

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Software provider Total Soft Bank has won a bid to supply its Computer Automated Terminal Operation System to SP-PSA International Port in Vietnam.

22nd July 2008

Automated system for Vietnam port

22nd July 2008

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Electric-powered green cable reel rubber-tyred gantry cranes headed for the Baltic have had their emissions slashed by 95%.

18th July 2008

Baltic to be greener

18th July 2008

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An affordable integrated security management system, controlling up to 128 doors and providing integrated access control, alarm processing, photo badging security management, and a number of high security modules is now on…

12th June 2008

Affordable security

12th June 2008

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In common with several other towage companies Svitzer is running an EcoTugproject with the aim of ensuring that the company maintains a strong positionas an environmentally sustainable service provider and is working…

23rd April 2008

Green tugnology all the rage

23rd April 2008

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Ports are welcoming the unexpected benefits of the current tug building boom, as Jack Gaston finds out

23rd April 2008

Benefits of boom

23rd April 2008

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The SS-Planner (Super Stowage Planner) considers all relevant vessel, terminal, and cargo data, and then automatically presents the optimised results.The system also has a 'learning' feature, so evolving more efficient plans over…

20th April 2008

Banking on intelligent stowage

20th April 2008

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A drive to expand in the high growth economies of China and India has paid off for consultant BMT with the company turning a 12% increase in turnover for 2007.

9th April 2008

Asia strategy pays out for BMT

9th April 2008

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Rotterdam-based ARL Consulting has releasedan online IT platform for equipment inventory management.

27th March 2008

ARL simplifies inventory management

27th March 2008

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APM Terminals is about to break new ground with Brommas delivery of its first production model of its quad-lift spreader.

30th January 2008

APM test bed for quad technology

30th January 2008

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Five new big truck designs have been launched by manufacturer Hyster, consisting of three new heavy forklift (FLT) trucks and two new container handlers.

14th November 2007

Barloworld expands

14th November 2007

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Lift truck hire specialist BarloworldHandling is preparing for a rush of orders to supplement carrgo handling fleetsfor the Christmas rush.

12th November 2007

Barloworld Christmas gift

12th November 2007

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SMV has confirmed an order for its Trimodal reachstaker, which lays claim to being the largest in the world.

4th October 2007

CTB record reachstacker

4th October 2007