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  • Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project
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    Four shortlisted for Sethusamudram

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Jan de Nul/Boskalis, Hyundai Engineering, Dredging International and Van Oord have been shortlisted for the contract to undertake dredging on three sections of the US$537m Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project . The entire project will involve four tranches of dredging of which the first has already been awarded to the Dredging ...

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    KOCHI

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    These include NYK, MOL, CMA CGM, PSA, HPH, Evergreen, Container Corporation of India, Larsen & Toubro and Gammon India. A contract is expected to be awarded in September or October.Partial approval has been given to a proposal by India Gateway Terminal for an increase in charges at Kochi. An 8% ...

  • When the TransPacific Container Company (TraPac) introduced pedestals at its terminals, they saw a return within three months
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    Technology delivers speedy ROI

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    In this report Alex Hughes considers the role played by technology in bringing economies and efficiencies to the gate and hastening a return on investment.

  • Virtually all the major players have introduced OCR technology
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    West Coast revolution

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Following last month''s look at gate systems in the Philippines, France and Brazil, Alex Hughes now reports on a labour and technology revolution in the US.

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    Integrate software to increase throughput

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    It is estimated that Felixstowe has almost doubled its throughput, without the need for additional equipment, since introducing its Tug Scheduling System (TSS). TSS is a bespoke system which provides real time scheduling, monitoring and control of tractor/trailers in the container terminal.

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    That short but critical distance

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    For maximum productivity, container handling must be synchronised from the quay to the yard. Benedict Young investigates.

  • Pier 1, Durban will see a system switch to RTG use on the landside but no firm decision has been made yet about the role of the private sector in its operation
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    Durban deliberates

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Durban''s new Pier 1 is set to deliver major new capacity and switch to an RTG system in the process but the jury is still out on the role of the private sector.

  • That bridge!
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    High costs and heavy weather

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The opening of Shanghai''s new Yangshan port may well solve some draught and congestion problems, but it raises some important cost and operational issues as well. James Macpherson reports.

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    KEMBLA GATEWAY

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    These include NYK, MOL, CMA CGM, PSA, HPH, Evergreen, Container Corporation of India, Larsen & Toubro and Gammon India. A contract is expected to be awarded in September or October.Challenges from four companies are threatening Kembla Gateway's plans to upgrade, landing the company in the New South Wales Land and ...

  • 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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    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.

  • 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.

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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.

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    So farewell then, P&O Ports

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    At first P& O Ports was hardly a group of ports at all, more a higeldy-pigeldy collection of Australian and English Channel terminal operations acquired over the years during the early phases of containerisation.

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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.

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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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    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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    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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    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.

  • 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.