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NewsInterforest Terminal Rotterdam
At Plymouth, the Brittany Ferries-operated services to Roscoff and Santander posted a 20% increase in ro-ro traffic.Interforest Terminal Rotterdam is expanding in the Eemhaven area with a container section and new handling equipment. It has ordered a gantry crane from Kalmar (seen being signed up here) and leased 6.5 ha ...
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NewsHamburg moves to head off logjam
Economics senator Gunnar Uldall has warned that capacities in Hamburg could get " very tight" in the light of predictions of container growth and has launched a € 190m programme up to 2010 to head off a potential logjam.
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NewsShip canal gets new tri-modal port
A new £ 150m intermodal container terminal is to be built on Peel Holdings'' Manchester Ship Canal with a projected annual throughput over the berth of 83,000 TEUs, accommodating 250 ship calls a year. The berths will be equipped with up to six ship-to-shore gantry cranes.
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Cadiz growth continues apace
Cadiz Bay believes that levels of traffic reported in 2004 mean that it produced above average increases when compared to other Spanish ports, with total throughput reaching 5m tons.
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India to invest $25 billion
Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee revealed that $25 billion is to be invested in domestic ports as part of a series of upgrading and construction projects, with investment sought from European companies.
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Cote D'Ivoire Vridi Terminal concession, done or undone?
The recent announcement that the Vridi Container Terminal concession at Abidjan, Cote D''Ivoire had been awarded to the French Group Bollore, caused a considerable reaction in port privatisation circles and the West African maritime community.
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Felixstowe's Chinese equipment arrives
The reaction wasn't because it was the Bollore group that had secured the contract but that it had happened apparently behind closed doors without other parties being invited to tender - an attitude that prompted the local Chamber of Commence to write in protest to the World Bank. It seems ...
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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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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 ...
