Author: Importer

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Mi-Jack, the machinery and solutions expert, has acquired a hybrid power company to better tap into the green energy market at ports and terminals.

12th August 2013

EcoPower hybrid systems

12th August 2013

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Ports need to keep an eye on the future to keep pace with LNG bunkering developments, explains Stevie Knight,

12th August 2013

Gas guzzlers

12th August 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Cavotec is to supply customers in the US, China, Australia, South Korea and Japan with its ports and maritime technologies after securing €7.2m worth of orders.

9th August 2013

Cavotec secures €7.2m of orders

9th August 2013

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

Crystal Cruises’ ‘Crystal Serenity’ and ‘Crystal Symphony’ have helped reduce emissions and improve air quality in and around the Port of Los Angeles (POLA).

9th August 2013

Green kudos for Crystal Cruises

9th August 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The days have gone when a seafarer centre was just a reading room and a phone box; today seafarers have different needs and centres won’t be fully used unless they meet those…

9th August 2013

Putting welfare first

9th August 2013

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Australian transport industry leader Paul Little has come out strongly against the economics of creating a container terminal in Hastings, as opposed to developing a “Bay West” terminal between Point Wilson and…

8th August 2013

Economics dont add up for Hastings hub

8th August 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

MLC 2006 should, in the short and longer term, ease the nightmare of seafarers being abandoned by their employers. Penniless, far from home, stranded on a substandard, ill-equipped vessel in a forgotten…

8th August 2013

Lessening the burden of abandonment

8th August 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Ports need to recognise the role they play in the ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention. Felicity Landon reports

7th August 2013

The human dimension

7th August 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Konecranes is set to deliver eight Rubber Tyred Gantry (RTG) cranes to Bolloré Group’s container terminals in Pointe Noire, Congo and Douala, Cameroon.

6th August 2013

Konecranes RTGs for West Africa

6th August 2013

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

BSR’s motto that ‘what’s measured gets managed’ is proving successful, with more carriers joining its Clean Cargo Working Group (CCWG) in a bid to reduce the environmental impacts of global goods transportation.

6th August 2013

More carriers join CCWG

6th August 2013