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NewsTacoma teams up with tribe
The Port of Tacoma Commission and the Puyallup Tribe Council have signed an economic development agreement, setting the stage for additional maritime expansion on the East Blair Waterway.
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XICT buys new cranes
Xiamen International Container Terminals (XICT) has purchased two super post-Panamax quay cranes to strengthen the terminal''s productivity as well as enhance the competitiveness of the Haicang Port Zone.
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NewsAFRICAN PORTS PROGRESS
The International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH) held its Pan African Ports Conference in Douala, Cameroon last December. Steve Cameron was there.
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NewsUK'S SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT TOO LITTLE BUT NOT TOO LATE
New facts and figures underline that the UK Government still has time to take a more coordinated approach to adding new containerport capacity. Mike Mundy reports.
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NewsA POLITICAL FAVOURITE
The Baltic Sea is a busy place with over 60 ports handling some 230m tons of cargo annually. The Russian port complex at St.Petersburg is the largest of these and, in its entirety, is known as the ''Great Port''. Lena Beloglazova reports.
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NewsTECON'S FRUIT HARVEST
International Container Terminals Services Inc (ICTSI) is to invest $15m at its Tecon Suape container terminal located in north-eastern Brazil. The new investment, which will bring ICTSI''s total investment to date at Tecon Suape up to a level of $55m and includes funds for two new post-Panamax cranes and new ...
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NewsBUOYANT TRADE PITY ABOUT THE IMBALANCE
There has been a serious re-shuffling of the alliances on the trade routes between Europe and South America as lines seek to get to grips with an uncomfortable balance between imports and exports. Rainbow Nelson reports.
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NewsRUSSIAN COAL EXPORTS ON FIRE
Coal reserves in Russia are generally agreed to be some of the best currently available, despite having problems with contamination from iron. Demand is nevertheless growing, with production increasing in 2003 by around 12% to 285m tons. Alex Hughes investigates.
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GOVERNMENT MUST GET IT RIGHT
No one wants government to have too strong an influence over a privatised port environment but some sort of architecture in which coordinated development can take place is essential. The international port industry knows from well-documented experiences such as excessive capacity being introduced in Buenos Aires, Argentina, just what the ...
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NewsTHE CHINA FACTOR
Gavin van Marle examines the opportunities for foreign investors in China''s burgeoning container handling sector - and in its hinterlands.
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NewsCRANE WARS
At anywhere upwards of $6m apiece, ship-to-shore container cranes don' t come cheap. So it' s hardly surprising that price is an issue in this specialist sector where a handful of European and Far Eastern manufacturers battle it out for market share. Nick Elliott reports.
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NewsSPEND A LITTLE SAVE A LITTLE
David Foxwell highlights the issues to consider when choosing new fendering, and the growing number of standards and guidelines port engineers can use to correctly specify a long-lasting product.
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NewsMEASURING AND MANAGING EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
As ports and stevedoring companies have struggled to meet the demands of an increasingly competitive environment by changing the way that people work, a variety of performance management or performance appraisal systems have come in and out of favour. However, there has been surprisingly little research on the type of ...
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NewsGLOBALISATION IMPACTS STOWAGE
As with many other sectors of the shipping business, towage companies, especially those engaged in providing shiphandling services, are increasingly influenced by the effects of globalisation reports Jack Gaston .
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NewsWHAT'S IT DOING OUT THERE?
In weather sensitive operations the availability of short term, high-resolution data can greatly assist in the effective utilisation of time and equipment, and in optimising the profitability of operations.
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NewsSALUTORY THOUGHTS ON QUAY WALLS AND CRANES
Fools wander in where civil engineers fear to tread but speak to the specialist insurers and they all know a thing or two about contact damage and ports. There are some rough rules of thumb which hold true most of the time. Like when a ship''s bulbous bow touches a ...
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NewsAlimak supervises
A new service from container crane lift specialist Alimak, contains a threefold testing procedure to eliminate all errors before the lift is put into operation. The lift is scrutinised through a 24-hour commissioning test routine, to ensure that the product is flawless and tested at time of delivery, being supervised ...
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SCCT opts for GTS
Global Transportation Solutions (GTS) is to implement its Terminal Operations Productivity Solution (TOPS) at the Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT), the 600,000 sq metre, 2.6 million TEU capacity APMT/ECT venture.
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NewsLiebherr orders for Jeddah and Barcelona
Jeddah North Container Terminal, run by Gulf Stevedoring, has taken delivery of two additional super post-Panamax cranes and five heavy duty RTGs from Liebherr. The crane outreach is 55 metres, capable of handling vessels of 21 containers wide. Capacity under the spreader is 65 tonnes with a heavy lift facility ...
