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PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES GREENPORT

THE PORT OF GOTHENBURG has received an international award for its contribution to cleaner shipping.

16th September 2011

Port of Gothenburg receives International Environmental Award

16th September 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Ineffective communication could be losing port and terminal operations significant sums of hard money. Or, as Captain John Wright of WrightWay Training told Port Strategy, “One plus one plus one doesn’t always…

15th September 2011

Challenging a communication culture

15th September 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

A research paper published this week showed that air pollution near ports and next to shipping lanes drops dramatically when vessels shift to cleaner, low-sulphur fuels.

15th September 2011

Clean fuel will save lives in port areas

15th September 2011

SOUTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

All concessionaires at the port of Santos will have to meet minimum productivity standards in future or risk having their concessions withdrawn.

15th September 2011

Productivity now mandatory at Santos

15th September 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

European Commissioner Siim Kallas has announced a policy to be in place by 2013 to reform ports policy by reducing the administrative burden placed on ports.

15th September 2011

EU to reform ports legislation

15th September 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Port of Dover recently welcomed a delegation from the Association of Road Freight companies of Brazil, a syndicate of over 7,000 freight companies in the Great São Paulo area as part…

15th September 2011

Dover welcomes Brazilian mission

15th September 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Gottwald is supplying 22 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to Europe Container Terminals (ECT) in Rotterdam, a long-term customer.

15th September 2011

New AGVs replace first-generation vehicles

15th September 2011

ASIA

ASIA

Cargotec is continuing its growth in the competitive Chinese port equipment market through a new order from Cosco Pacific subsidiary Jinjiang Pacific Ports Development (JPPDC).

15th September 2011

Kalmar grows Chinese presence

15th September 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

PCC Intermodal is to start to deploy an Autostore Terminal Operating System (TOS) at its Kutno inland terminal in central Poland, a key national and international railroad nexus.

15th September 2011

TOS for Polish inland facility

15th September 2011

EUROPE

EUROPE

The recent acquisition of a Liebherr mobile harbour crane has gained the Odense Port Terminal at Lindø more than one kind of efficiency.

15th September 2011

Crane gives Odense flexibility

15th September 2011