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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Los Angeles is coming down hard on polluting terminal tugs, as Stuart Pearcey finds out

9th July 2008

terminal tractor item

9th July 2008

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Once viewed as a fashionable green statement, self sufficient power generation is in todays ports less of a luxury and more a necessity, as Patrik Wheater finds out

9th July 2008

The electrification of ports

9th July 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Saline and the erosion of port structures go hand-in-hand, so why arent ports doing more to protect their assets, asks Carly Fields

9th July 2008

Corrosion feature

9th July 2008

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Operators looking to start construction of a new portor terminal should consider corrosion early on. While its often low onthe list of priorities, a few dollars spent at the start could protectports…

9th July 2008

Get in early and get the jump on corrosion

9th July 2008

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

The global shipping market is in somewhat of a flux, with a possible world recession, sharply fluctuating bulk shipping rates and liner rates trying to decide what to do.

9th July 2008

Bulk Into Containers

9th July 2008

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Shipping lines Crowley and APL have warned the Costa Rican ports of Limó n and Moí n that they are considering dropping calls on the back of poor service.

9th July 2008

Threat of boycott hangs over Limón and Moín

9th July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kalmar has launched an electric forklift series, designed as a productive, cost-effective, fossil-fuel free and environmentally-friendly unit.

9th July 2008

Future electric

9th July 2008

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

VeriTainer, specialist in crane-mounted radiation scanning solutions, has been invited to participate in an Operational Readiness Test by US customs and security departments at the Port of Tacoma.

9th July 2008

Seamless radiation scanning

9th July 2008

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Recent shipping service losses have forced PrimePort Timaru to make 23 permanent full-time and part-time positions redundant.

7th July 2008

NZ news snippets for July (pics to come)

7th July 2008

ASIA

ASIA

China Merchants Holdings predicts that Shanghai International Port will handle 30m teu this year, despite the slight downturn in the global economy. However, in the four months to the end of April,…

6th July 2008

Traffic slowing at Shanghai

6th July 2008