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NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The US government needs to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to funding national port infrastructure, according to Georgia Ports Authority executive director Curtis Foltz.

3rd July 2013

US government lacks port focus

3rd July 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Software specialist Navis wants to bring the user back into the automated container terminal optimisation process in a move away from the previous ‘black box’ approach.

3rd July 2013

Make optimisation a shared goal, says Navis

3rd July 2013

EUROPE

EUROPE

A UK renewables developer has shortlisted three local ports as an operations base for its new windfarm development and its entered into an agreement with them with regards to operation and maintenance.

3rd July 2013

Shortlist for windfarm ops base

3rd July 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A focus on total cost of ownership of port machinery has kept Cargotec unit Kalmar at the vanguard of equipment development.

3rd July 2013

Kalmar total cost focus

3rd July 2013

EUROPE

EUROPE

Declining Asia-Europe container volumes hardly paint a positive picture for Northern European ports, as Felicity Landon explains

3rd July 2013

Soldiering on

3rd July 2013

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Cold ironing, onshore power supply and shore connection refer to the same process: plugging ships into the national grid. By turning ship engines off while at berth, and thus cutting emissions, shore…

2nd July 2013

The progress of cold ironing worldwide

2nd July 2013

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Wärtsilä and CEVA Logistics have been announced as the winners of the Lean & Green Star Award 2013.

2nd July 2013

Wärtsilä and CEVA receive Dutch green award

2nd July 2013

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Strainstall, a leading stress analysis and design verification expert, is targeting the tricky issue of misdeclared container weights with its new container weighing system.

2nd July 2013

Container weighing forward thinking

2nd July 2013

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

Alfa Laval is supplying PureSOx exhaust gas cleaning systems for retrofitting to three DFDS Seaways ro-ro vessels - a move that many owners are making to comply with the new IMO sulphur…

2nd July 2013

More vessels clean up their act

2nd July 2013

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

PRODUCTS & SERVICES GREENPORT

There’s a new low emission harbour crane on the market which promises to improve efficiency without compromising economical and sustainable cargo handling in ports and terminals.

2nd July 2013

New low emission harbour crane

2nd July 2013