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NewsCARRIER-STEVEDORE PARTNERSHIPS MARK INDUSTRY GROWTH
Drewry Shipping Consultants has released its latest port sector report, " Annual Review of Global Container Terminal Operators 2004" . The most significant effect on the league of global operators, according to Drewry, has been the increase in carrier-stevedore partnership arrangements.
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NewsDO-IT-YOURSELF OR OUTSOURCE?
Should ports with a continuous need for maintenance dredging automatically outsource the work to a contractor? At what point does the do-it-yourself solution make sense? Alex Hughes investigates.
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NewsWIFI COVERS THE WATERFRONT
Figures about just how many ports and harbours already make use of wireless data communications in one form or another are hard to come by, but leading WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) providers suggest that 15-20% of ports now use it in some shape or form, and that the numbers of users ...
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WMD: This Applies To You
Clerks in the letters of credit departments of leading trade finance banks have just begun to notice that during 2004, the usual cargo insurance clauses have begun appearing with a so-called RACE exclusion, that is to say that claims arising out of Radiological Emissions, Chemical, Biochemical or Electromagnetic Causes are ...
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CSXWT BIDDING UNDERWAY
Seven parties have expressed interest to CSXWT''s lead bank, Citigroup in the second round of bidding for the company''s portfolio. Parent company CSX Corp wants to sell the business as a single entity although it has terminal operations across four continents. Offers are to be submitted by midNovember and a ...
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MHC orders buoyant
Liebherr-Werk Nenzing expects 2004 to be an excellent year for mobile harbour crane sales with orders expected to exceed 60 against a budgeted target of 50. The EU followed by the Far East are Liebherr' s strongest markets but countrywise, India comes top taking eight machines during the first eight ...
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. . . and KCI Konecranes, SMV
KCI Konecranes is to acquire SMV Lifttrucks of Sweden whose product range consists of heavy-duty reachstackers and forklift trucks with lifting capacities of 10 to 60 tons.
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NewsRemote control system for MHCs and PHCs
Gottwald has introduced a remote control system for both its HMK mobile and HSK portal harbour cranes, developed with HBCradiomatic. Equipped with an LCD screen, hard buttons and joysticks, the system packs all crane functions in a handy, robust, weatherproof unit. The control elements are identical to those found on ...
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Dunkirk: two or three more cranes if traffic warrants it DunkirksSince all crane functions, e. g. crane driving and propping, can be executed by the remote control system, there is no need for an additional cabin fitted to the crane's chassis or superstructure. The driver can move the crane from ...
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NewsKalmar lifts Alimak
Orders for 25 Alimak SE-L access lifts for container cranes have been placed by Kalmar for port installations in Rotterdam and Antwerp.
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NewsMultibeam echosounders detect sunken objects
SeaBat Multibeam echosounders are becoming essential equipment for port survey activity, says John Fraser, business development manager at Reson Offshore.
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NewsBMH Marine strike in Far East
BMH Marine has secured orders worth $30m during the summer from customers in Taiwan, India and Singapore for continuous unloading and loading equipment.
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Tideworks acquires Sonu Software . . .
Terminal management and planning software provider, Tideworks, has acquired Sonu Software Solutions. Based in Rotterdam, Sonu is known for its coverage of the conventional cargo and warehousing sector which Tideworks says will complement its existing product line.
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NewsTrellex fenders for Kristiansand
Two very different types of vessel can now be berthed in comfort at Kristiansand with a new fender installation from Trellex Fender. A new catamaran has joined the existing ferries that operate from Kristiansand to Kiel and Hirtshals in Denmark.
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NewsPortals for Immingham
Gottwald has received an order for two HSK 360 EG four-rope grab portal harbour cranes for a new coal-handling facility from ABP at Immingham. The order is part of ABP' s largestever investment in a terminal development: the £ 44.5m extension of the Humber International Terminal at Immingham with the ...
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The next target..
" After 9/11 we were getting intelligence briefings saying the next attack may well not be an airline - it may be a vessel. So you have the potential for a vessel carrying a large amount of explosives to be physically sailed up a river and blown up." David Wilson-Le-Moine ...
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NewsOperation Safe Commerce gets thumbs-up
US Senator Patty Murray has declared the test phase of Operation Safe Commerce (OSC) a " resounding" success.
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How secure is your PIN asks TT Club
It' s a question that worries us all as we struggle to control our banking and credit card transactions in these days of chips and, particularly, Personal Identification Numbers, or PINs. But in fact, warns the transport insurance provider TT Club, we should be even more worried about the security ...
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NewsDIRECT CALLS FOR NORTHERN BLACK SEA PORTS
Black Sea ports have traditionally been served by feeders out of Istanbul, Malta, Piraeus and even Gioia Tauro rather than being subject to calls from liner services. However, as the region increasingly sources its imports from China rather than Western Europe, shipping lines have reacted by establishing new liner services, ...
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NewsIt's life Jim, but not as we know it
Every so often something really nasty comes along doesn''t it?
