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    OOI selects ESC systems

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Two US east coast terminals of the Orient Overseas International (OOI) group, which has the same parent company as Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), have placed orders for Embarcadero Systems Corporation' s (ESC) smartGATE suite and Intelligent Camera system to manage their gate operations.

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    SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS TAKEN UP FROM A BROADER INDUSTRY BASE

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    ESC's gate technologies will be deployed for the inbound and outbound security gates at Global Terminal and Container Services, Inc. in Jersey City and at New York Container Terminal (NYCT), formerly Howland Hook Container Terminal, on Staten Island.Software-based terminal management and operating solutions are on the increase as the industry ...

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    Mafi tractors arrive in Piraeus

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    ESC's gate technologies will be deployed for the inbound and outbound security gates at Global Terminal and Container Services, Inc. in Jersey City and at New York Container Terminal (NYCT), formerly Howland Hook Container Terminal, on Staten Island.Twelve Mafi ro-ro tractors have just been delivered to Piraeus. Supplied in full ...

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    KOPER ORDERS UP SSG

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Konecranes VLC Corporation has received an order for a Panamax dimension ship-to-shore gantry from the Luka Container Terminal at the Port of Koper.

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    Search mirror redesign

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    UK-based security equipment specialist PW Allen has redesigned its range of CEM Search mirrors - mirrors used to look under vehicles and access other normally difficult to-access areas.

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    Jan De Nul

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Belgian dredging contractor Jan De Nul has recently been awarded more than € 200m worth of contracts. In Hong Kong, landfall dredging and close to 1.5m tons of rock-dumping has to be executed for the gas pipeline connecting the Guangdong Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal located at Cheng Tou Jiao (Shenzhen) ...

  • Figure 1: Chinas spectacular trade growth was not foreseen in 1994 Figure 2: This predicted simplification of Asian shipping routes did not eventuate Figure 3: Service patterns have become more rather than less complex
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    STRUCTURAL CHANGES BRING NEW CHALLENGES

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The growth in scale and complexity of Asia''s container terminals is providing the ports of the region with massive new challenges - and new opportunities. Steve Meyrick tells the story.

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    "THIRD FORCE" ARGUMENT FADES

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Credence is still given in certain circles to the idea that in order to provide a really competitive container handling service there has to be more than two companies providing such a service in the same location. We see, for example, this idea backed in locations such as Australia where ...

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    Threat of sanctions won't help

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The UK''s Freight Transport Association (FTA) has criticised the port of Felixstowe for introducing a controversial security surcharge and threatening to give a " lower priority" to some imported containers, delaying them within the port.

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    Kongsberg completes Aberdeen project

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The North Sea oil port of Aberdeen can now utilise a new observation system recently completed by Kongsberg Maritime. The system utilises Internet Protocol (IP) technology to supply high-resolution camera pictures and AIS information.

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    MOMBASA FACES LOSS OF UGANDAN TRADE

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Uganda and Sudan are in discussions to develop a new trade route through Port Sudan as an alternative to Mombasa which the Ugandan government regards as inefficient.

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    Valencia woos China Shipping and MSC

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    China Shipping is reportedly evaluating Malta Freeport against Valencia as the hub where it will deploy its new fleet of 8,100TEU vessels. In July 2002, the carrier agreed with Malta that it would use facilities there to tranship boxes between its Asia, Mediterranean and East Coast US services. However, a ...

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    ADANI OPTS FOR SMALLER IRON ORE TERMINAL

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    China Shipping initially deployed 5,500TEU vessels on its Far East-North Europe service which called solely at Valencia.India's Adani Group has chosen the small Belekeri jetty in northern Karnataka state rather than the larger port of Mormugoa to concentrate exports of iron ore to China saying the facility is experiencing too ...

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    MUMBAI'S LUXURY MARKET

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The Indian government has added Mumbai to a list of ports now licensed to handle new vehicle import traffic.

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    APL cuts new deals in China and India

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    APL and Chiwan Container Terminal (CCT) have signed a 20-year agreement which will give APL additional efficiency and berth capability at the western Shenzhen port of Chiwan. CCT, in turn, will benefit from APL''s business expansion and container volume growth in western Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta. Parent NOL''s ...

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    W-W warns of over-capacity

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    CCT adds the agreement provides impetus for the development of Chiwan's terminal with a fifth berth.By 2008, South Africa's vehicle exports will have doubled in volume, with the biggest markets in Australia, New Zealand and Asia, claims Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines VP Per Eitzen. He says that ports must be more ...

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    DRAGADOS SPLASHES OUT

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Spanish stevedoring group Dragados-SPL intends to invest € 74.5m on various projects during the current year of which the opening of the initial phase of the Malaga container terminal will absorb € 20m.

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    ASSORE'S WARNING

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Assore''s financial director, Chris Cory, says capacity constraints at railways and ports in South Africa could hold back exports. " With the surging demand of China, the only limits on our exports of iron ore at the port of Saldanha are at the port and on the railway."

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    FOURTH TERMINAL FOR KARACHI

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The tender will combine BOT with concession contracts but is for all six terminals as a single contract and operators will not be able to bid for individual terminals. The tender closes on 1 September.Karachi is to build a fourth container handling facility, which will be known as the Country ...

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    BARCELONA PLANS THIRD TERMINAL

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The tender will combine BOT with concession contracts but is for all six terminals as a single contract and operators will not be able to bid for individual terminals. The tender closes on 1 September.Barcelona port authority (APB) is to invest €70m in building its third container terminal, which will ...