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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Price-driven fender purchases could “increase costs and reduce the efficiency of ports over the longer-term”, according to research from Trelleborg Marine Systems.

21st September 2011

Fender choices driven by price

21st September 2011

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

WITNESSING CARGOTEC’S COMMITMENT to support future generations of container terminal operators, the company recently launched the ‘Port 2060’ project, which aims to imagine how the container industry might evolve over the next…

21st September 2011

Cargotec envisages game-changing Port 2060

21st September 2011

AMERICAS GREENPORT

AMERICAS GREENPORT

The Port of Long Beachs clean-air efforts are achieving dramatic across-theboardreductions in air pollution, including a 72 percent decline in diesel particulates, according to the latest comprehensive study.

21st September 2011

Long Beach makes 70% diesel pollution cut

21st September 2011

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

WITHIN A PORT context, ‘efficiency’ is usually a word associated with operational rather than environmental management, but it has been the mantra used todeliver real carbon savings at the Port of Dover.

20th September 2011

Dovers focus on efficiency

20th September 2011

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Cranes with very long outreaches are now being put in position at major ports around the world. But is existing port infrastructure sufficient to be able to accommodate them?

20th September 2011

Planning ahead pays off

20th September 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Six consortia have bid for the contract to build the new container terminal at the port of Cadiz, with a contract to be awarded in September. However, the operating concession will only…

20th September 2011

Cadiz concession delay

20th September 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

Konecranes has confirmed an order for three ship-to-shore cranes and seven rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Lithuania’s JSSC Klaipedos Smelte. The cranes will be delivered to the port of Klaipeda starting in the…

20th September 2011

Konecranes nets Lithuania contract

20th September 2011

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

SeaIntel Maritime Analysis has developed an environmental benchmark index allowing direct comparisonbetween the 20 largest container carriers.

20th September 2011

New Report Ranks Top-20 Carriers

20th September 2011

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

AUSTRALASIA GREENPORT

Flinders Ports wants to build a $AUS600mill port with a three kilometre-long jetty at Port Bonython, near Whyalla, South Australia.

20th September 2011

$600m Development for Port Bonython

20th September 2011

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

ALPHERIUM, THE LARGEST barge-connected inland terminal in the Netherlands, has proved such a success since it opened for business in October 2010 that thefacility is already operating at capacity.

19th September 2011

Rotterdam barge terminal strategy pays environmental dividends

19th September 2011