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MUNDRA TO ADD MORE BERTHS
APM Terminals, CMA-CGM, DP World, ETA, ICTS, Gammon Infrastructure, IL&FS, GVK, Soma Enterprises and Concor are all interested in bidding. India's Mundra Port, managed by the Adani Group, will add four new berths this year, as well as two container handling facilities next year. This will bring to eight, the ...
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Transas scoops Korean business
Hyundai Merchant Marine sister company Haeyoung Maritime Service has contracted Transas Group''s distributor in Korea to supply simulators in South Korea after a false start with another unnamed supplier.
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YANGSHAN FIRST HALF
Yangshan Harbour in Shanghai, which opened for business in December last year, has reported traffic of 1.27m teu in the first six months of this year.
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HULUDAO AMBITION
MECys project manager Yongdae Kim said: "The customer had already planned this project with another navigational simulator manufacturer for almost nine months. But the faultless performance of Navi-Trainer 4000 and the impressive references offered by Transas Group for their navigational simulators encouraged Haeyoung Maritime Service Co.The Western Chinese coastal city ...
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NewsZPMC RTGs for Sohar
Oman International Container Terminal, at the port of Sohar, has acquired four ZPMC RTGs equipped with global positioning systems.
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NewsSupersize Khorfakkan
Khorfakkan received its largest ever ship in July, with the arrival of the 9,415 CMACGM Fidelio at the recently completed 400-metre quay.
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NewsBelle of the ball
India offers great potential for investors but are ports still waiting for their Prince to come as delays dog privatisation efforts? S.N. Srikanth investigates
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Medway's Ridham ready
The Medway port of Ridham is also getting ready to meet Olympics-related demand and reporting busy times already.
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Supply stream for London
As well as construction materials, there is a big push to make sure that London is seen as the delivery port for anything that needs to be imported for the Olympics, says PLA chief executive Richard Everitt.
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Metoc dredging services
Environmental consultancy company Metoc has launched a range of environmental engineering services for the dredging of marine aggregates from the UK Continental Shelf to meet demand from major developments in the South East, including the London Olympics. It is offering marine environmental impact assessment, support for licence applications for extraction, ...
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H20 vital for Heathrow
Water proved a vital element in serving the Heathrow Terminal 5 construction site. Aggregates were transported to the site via the waterways and this was a project in which the River Medway also played an important part; Mittal Kent Wire at its Chatham Docks terminal handled the import of 70,000 ...
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Lion City port losing its roar
Singapore has held on to the top box port crown for two years running, but can it hold off rival Hong Kong for a third? Peter Trevalyn thinks not
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Seaway offers alternative outlet
Grain volumes shipped via the St Lawrence Seaway rose 25.5% in the first quarter ended June 30 to 3.36m tonnes, according to Richard Corfe, chief executive and president of the St Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation.
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NewsBeating hurricane hangovers
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused unprecedented human and financial damage along the Gulf coast of the US last year. As this year''s season gets underway, Michael King examines how the grain ports are gearing up for this season''s onslaught
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NewsCautious curiosity
Questions are being asked, but many ports are still not serious about building facilities to support automation, reports David Foxwell
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NewsIn-built intelligence key to successful automation
With shipping lines demanding higher productivity and reduced handling costs, terminals that don''t have the ability to implement new technology are less likely to be able to provide efficiency improvements, as David Foxwell reports
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Speed up, tone down and save time
Users such as Ceres Paragon Terminals say automation and a high specification TOS has a number of benefits. Ceres Paragon claims to operate the fastest container terminal in the world, and will be the first marine terminal to integrate IT systems provided by Navis with image acquisition portals, weigh-in-motion scales, ...
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NewsBack to basics
Introducing a larger measure of common sense into container terminal concessioning should be a priority, according to Mike Mundy
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NewsThe measure of management
Over the last decade, management techniques have evolved substantially, with one of the most highly regarded being the so-called " strategic performance management" , or SPM, theory. Already in use worldwide by government departments, major corporations, academic institutions and not-for-profit organisations, it promises to deliver substantial benefits similar to those ...
