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NewsSMM focuses on the environment
SMM 2010 is scheduled for 7 to 10 September, at the Hamburg Fair site in Germany. The 24th International Shipbuilding Fair is expected by the organisers to exceed the very considerable size of previous events.
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NewsHonours for clean air initiatives
Five local maritime and cargo companies that have taken extraordinary steps to improve air quality collected honours at the third annual Air Quality Awards, presented by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
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NewsSvitzer order their first ECO tugs - by Jack Gaston
Virtually every tug owner worldwide recognises the need to meet future demands for more environmentally acceptable vessels.
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News“Design in Safety” or “Design for Safety”?
When developing cargo handling equipment, manufacturers need not just to consider the concept of “Designed-in Safety” but also to introduce a “Design for Safety” methodology. Hannu Oja, Konecranes’ Director of Port Technology, explains the differences
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NewsIs “safe” really safe?
In safety, as in the environment, there is often a gap between theory and practice. Tatiana Eggert, of HPTI, investigates
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IMO works to ensure safe lashing of deck containers
Some “momentous” decisions concerning deck lashing of containers were made at the recent meeting of the IMO’s DSC sub-committee meeting
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Safety performance: important progress
Henrik Kristensen detailed APM Terminals’ Safety Culture implementation and approach, which have established new standards of safety performance for the container industry, while addressing the 2nd ICHCA Safe Cargo Handling Seminar in Stockholm, Sweden.
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NewsGijon monitors its ecological footprint
MC3 methodology has been used for the past nine years to measure the Carbon Footprint of the northern Spanish port
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NewsSustainability: Accelerating Environmental Initiatives
Henrik Kristensen, Head of Corporate Responsibilities at APM Terminals, outlines the company’s strategy for sustainability implementation strategy at
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NewsHow to evaluate transport’s environmental performance
Society’s environmental interest has evolved from a strong focus on local health effects towards more regional impacts on nature. Now, the focus is on global climate change and the use of finite and fossil resources. Thus, evaluation models for transport logistics environmental performance follow the same development path. Magnus Swahn ...
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NewsKuifeend nature conservation area
The Kuifeend + Grote Kreek nature conservation area lies within the Antwerp North railway marshalling yard, right in the middle of the port of Antwerp.
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Ready for biofuels?
Richard Sadler, CEO of Lloyd’s Register, analyses the effect of biofuels on the shipping industry.
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NewsAdvantage: Rail
Rail is the key to Duisport’s commercial success. Kasia Kurek, of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, reports
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NewsTackling the challenges of inland ports
The “Binnen_Land” Research project has been established in response to the urgent need to handle increasing volumes of freight more sustainable. Femke Grabbert and Verena Meister of the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg provide an update on the project
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WWL: 32%cut in greenhouse gas emissions
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics cut its green house gas emissions by 32% last year. The company also cut its sulphur dioxide emissions (SO2) emissions by 135,000 tonnes in a nine year period from 2000 to 2009, an amount nearly equal to all the SO2 emissions from road vehicles in the United ...
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NewsIntroducing: The “clean, green, terminal of the future”
Shipping specialists Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has unveiled a futuristic, zero-emissions, marine terminal powered by the sun and the wind
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NewsGaussin introduces Container Terminal Multi-trailer
French port equipment manufacturer Gaussin recently presented the ATT terminal trailer to the market. Now, however, the company has made the next logical step and launched the AMTS – multi-trailer system. Alex Goussiatiner* reports
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NewsTowards a carbon-reduced logistics chain
The GreenPort Logistics conference in Stockholm earlier this year focused on the challenges of carbon reduction in the transport chain
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NewsLogistic Chain Management: from environmental protection to sustainable business
The logistic chain must not just focus on environmental protection, but increasingly it must work towards becoming a “sustainable business”. The newly established ECO SLC initiative is aimed at assisting organisations with this challenge. Some of the key issues are analysed by Herman Journée and Chris Wooldridge*
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NewsSustainable hinterland logistics in practice
The Port of Amsterdam and the Flower Auction FloraHolland in the Netherlands initiated a pilot in the first 3 months of 2010. Edwin Wenink, FloraHolland, reports: “For the first time, we brought plants in a logistic chain mainly based on waterway transport between the place of origin and the final ...
