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Tacoma's truckers guide
Kristiansand needed to be sure that the fendering would be suitable for the catamaran as well as the much larger ferries.Designed to fit in the glove box, this brochure features important information including contact numbers for all Tacoma's terminals, as well as regional truck stops, service locations and highway permit ...
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Sediment solution for Antwerp
MWH has been selected by Port of Antwerp to provide an innovative solution to its sediment problems. It will be among the first times that mechanical dewatering using a chamber filter press has been applied to disposing of a port' s sediment - and the first time anywhere that the ...
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UKD wins third-party work
In addition to its work for parent ABP, UK Dredging has found work at a number of UK ports recently including Forth Ports, Aberdeen, Tyne, Portsmouth, Workington and Belfast and in Eire, Dun Laoghaire and Cork, and Fenit Harbour.
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NewsPALLIETER
The design for a mechanical dewatering plant will save over €7m per year, while delivering processing and sustainability benefits. The MWH solution requires only 20 ha of land to process the sediment, compared with 120 ha that would be required by a lagooning process: the alternative and standard solution. This ...
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Transas launches first VTMIS in Thailand
Transas has installed the first Vessel Traffic Management and Information System (VTMIS) in Thailand, the first step in equipping the port of Map Ta Phut with vessel traffic services as defined by IALA and IMO recommendations.
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Kongsberg leads satnav consortium
Kongsberg Seatex has joined an agreement with the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU), which originates from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the EU. GJU is responsible for the development and implementation of Galileo - Europe' s state-of-the-art global navigation system.
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NewsBromma goes east
Bromma has received orders for eight electric yard crane spreaders - 7x45' to Northport, Malaysia, and 1x40' to Rhenania, Germany.
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POW's security theme
Bromma claims service intervals are longer on its electric spreaders since there is no oil or oil filter to change.Lloyd's List Ports of the World 2004 is out with over 2,600 commercially active ports and 45,000 port facts. The two volume guide now has a bunkering section, 55 new ports ...
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NewsWAN QING SHA
Bromma claims service intervals are longer on its electric spreaders since there is no oil or oil filter to change.Trailing suction hopper dredger WAN QING SHA, built for China's CHEC-Guangzhou Dredging Co (GDC) by IHC, has been launched and will be deployed on capital dredging work in the Pearl River ...
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Norcontrol for Port Salalah
Bromma claims service intervals are longer on its electric spreaders since there is no oil or oil filter to change.Port Salalah in Oman has selected Norcontrol IT for a new Vessel Traffic Management and Information System (VTMIS). Norcontrol IT will supply a suite of products, based on its VTMIS5060, which ...
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NewsWhat you see is what you get
Prismalence of Sweden has addressed the tricky problem of contrasting light and shadows cast by standard port lighting systems. A new broad-spectrum CDM light source and a unique optical system, distributes the near parallel light beams from the reflector evenly across a precisely defined rectangular area by means of an ...
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Another TRANSEC trainer
In conventional systems, typically, the lighting looks bright, but it is still difficult to see clearly and there are large areas that the light doesn't reach. Steve Cameron, whose Cameron Maritime Resources markets Prismalence to the maritime industry, says: "If it's raining and a driver is tired and straining to ...
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Thales puts forward its Ship Security Alert System
The Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) is being proposed as part of the best and most logical solution for US national homeland security needs. This suggestion has been made to the USCG following the recent request it made to industry for technical solutions to its longrange vessel tracking needs.
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ISPS charge challenged
HPH''s decision to charge shippers and consignees $10.20 per export container and $19.80 per import container at Felixstowe, to recover the cost of complying with the ISPS Code, has been receiving mixed reviews with the British International Freight Association challenging the legality of the levy. HPH says the charges have ...
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Teesport savours Southern Discomfort
Teesport Container Terminal 2 (TCT2), the recently opened second container terminal at PD Teesport in Middlesbrough, is achieving significant improvements in operational effectiveness for the port and its customers. Over the past three months PD Teesport has accomplished improved productivity with over 50 lifts per hour.
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NewsTeesport looks beyond ISPS
In our November/ December 2003 issue, PS spoke to managers at PD Teesport to report on their preparations for the ISPS Code. Since then, things have been moving apace.
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US Customs looks to cut out doubling up
US Customs has rejected calls to take manifest details about export goods direct from other Customs agencies, saying it is unworkable.
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US seeks IMO standards for company security officers
However, assistant US Customs attache Peter Darvas said it will try to make the task easier by researching ways to make its systems more compatible with those used in other countries.The US wants the IMO to oversee the standards of shore-based company security officers under the auspices of the ISPS ...
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Chinese and Trinidad & Tobago select SeaSecure
The Chinese government has selected maritime security and counter-terrorism consultants, SeaSecure, to provide training for the Hong Kong Marine Department in preparation for ISPS Code compliance.
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NewsU.S. ports welcome grants but heed shut-down warning
US ports seeking federal grants for 1,065 security enhancement measures have learned that 442 of the plans will be funded. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) named recipients of $179,025,900 in the third round of federal grants for port security.
