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NewsKonecranes chalk up RTG orders
The Port of Houston Authority has placed a repeat order for seven Konecrane RTGs worth over $10m with delivery due in April 2005. " They will help us provide even faster turnaround for container vessels visiting the Barbour' s Cut terminal, " says Houston' s executive director Tom Kornegay. The ...
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MHI SUPPLIES GANTRIES AND REMOTE-CONTROLLED RTGS
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has been awarded a $35.5m contract to supply 12 remotely controlled RTGs and three super post-Panamax quayside gantry cranes to Tobishima Container Berth at Nagoya.
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EMBARCADERO'S EUROPEAN STRATEGY
"Konecranes RTGs have proven their success in terms of environmental considerations combined with high performance capacity and fast delivery. These have been real strengths in winning recent orders", says Tuomas Saastamoinen, sales manager, container handling at Konecranes. "Providing local support for the RTGs through our harbour crane service experts from ...
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NewsLiverpool Water
Liverpool Water demonstrated its multi-purpose harbourcleansing, pollution control, shallow-water credging craft at the Seawork 2004 exhibition recently.
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NewsMTL partners with TSB
Hong Kong''s MTL is the latest terminal operator to team up with a software provider - South Korea''s Total Soft Bank (TSB) in this case - to develop terminal management systems. Besides fulfilling its own terminals'' needs, the joint venture known as Modern Terminals Operations System (MOTOS), will also market ...
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NewsKalmar's latest strads have eye to customer's bottom line
Kalmar' s newly launched 7th generation straddle carriers are compatible with the company' s remote maintenance interface (RMI) system making it possible to monitor their condition from afar. This allows Kalmar to support customers not only directly through their local service network but also world-wide from its offices and factories ...
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NewsISPS compliance: some did, some didn't
The press releases came in from every corner of the world. Those ports and shipowners that had complied wanted to shout about it. Fair enough considering the effort and expense involved in preparing for ISPS Code compliance by the 1 July deadline - but too many to list here individually.
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SAIC supports Integrated Container Inspection System (ICIS)
The global supply chain is at risk of hijacking by terrorists with the intent to deliver and detonate weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), says US security provider SAIC. Stakeholders in the marine transportation system are working to mitigate this threat. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is pushing the shipping ...
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NewsTeesport floatation will spur expansion plans
It will be port business as usual in Hartlepool if the newly independent PD Ports gets the approval it now wants for its proposed £ 500m property project development around Victoria Harbour.
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P&ONL facilitates Rotterdam's mating game
Every fortnight vessels of P& O Nedlloyd''s container fleet take fresh seawater from the Atlantic to Rotterdam in their ballast tanks. While the ship is worked at the terminal, a small tanker comes alongside and the water is pumped aboard from the bigger ship''s tanks. The tanker sails to Rotterdam''s ...
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NewsPort boss calls for end to unreasonable rejections
Economic policy has to give greater recognition to the role played by Welsh ports and deal fairly and efficiently with proposals to develop them if the contribution they make to national and local economies is to continue, the chief executive of Wales'' largest port has warned.
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NewsAAPA
The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has awarded the Port of Houston Authority for its development of a trash-skimming programme along the Buffalo Bayou. The Houston project, initially developed by Houston''s Buffalo Bayou Partnership, was one of 152 entries submitted by 37 ports worldwide for consideration for the AAPA ...
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Klang introduces CSI surcharge
"The feat marks the first time that a container has been successfully tracked intransit without any 'blackouts' associated with limited satellite or cellular network coverage, line-of-sight obstructions or reliance upon costly ground-based infrastructure, " boasts ceo Vaibhav Malawade. The container was even tracked consistently when positioned in the centre of ...
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TT Club verifies "STC" protection allowed under AMS rules
The TT Club has secured an important clarification for its members from the US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) service regarding the continued ability to utilize the term " said to contain" (STC) on bills of lading.
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Sines Container Terminal Receives First Vessel
Operations at Sines Container Terminal XXI (Terminal XXI), a collaborative effort between Sines Port Authority and PSA Corp, commenced on 31 May with the arrival of MSC CRISTIANA. PSA Corp says it is working actively to attract more carriers to hub in Sines.
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Rotterdam's fruit throughput up
Phase I of Terminal XXI offers 320 metres of berth with 16-metre draught, two post-Panamax quay cranes and three RTGs providing it with an annual handling capacity of 250,000TEUs.Halfway through the fruit season throughput of fruit and vegetables in Rotterdam is 20% up. At end April, Seabrex, Rotterdam's largest fruit ...
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NewsNew ICD Emirates' fourth port
Sharjah' s new ICD ( PS May 2004 ) has been designed to handle containers moving from Khorfakkan to the West Coast Terminal at Sharjah. According to operators Gulftainer, the ICD is effectively the Emirate' s fourth port located just outside Sharjah city on the border with Dubai. Manager Peter ...
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UAE cements maritime ties with Iraq
There has been a boom in sea trade between the United Arab Emirates and Iraq in the post-Saddam era, mostly using traditional dhows plying between Dubai Creek and ports such as Umm Qasr and Abul Folous. Around 300 dhows carry cargoes such as tyres, clothes, rice, pulses, edible oils, electronics, ...
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NewsMajor capacity shortfall in the east
Drewry Shipping Consultants believes that East Asian ports will lack 14m TEUs in capacity by 2007 unless more investment in facilities is made a priority. In that year demand will be 143.3m TEUs compared with capacity of 129.5m TEUs, assuming an annual projected growth rate of 8%-9%, with China seemingly ...
