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TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

How does a port choose the right X-ray screening system for its operations? It depends what you’ re looking for. Felicity Landon reports

1st September 2007

Deep Vision

1st September 2007

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

X-ray scanning technology is somewhat mature, according to Rapiscan’ s Peter Kant. “ We have multiple players in the market to deliver it, and the technology today isn’ t all that different…

1st September 2007

Look to software for improved outputs

1st September 2007

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Removing the human element could avoid the time-consuming interpretation of X-ray images, as Felicity Landon finds out

1st September 2007

Dodging detection delays

1st September 2007

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Smiths Detection, part of the global Smiths Group, recently delivered two HCV-Mobile systems to French customs, to screen trucks for narcotics, contraband and counterfeit goods. It is the first time the French…

1st September 2007

Mobile solutions win over French officials

1st September 2007

THE STRATEGIST

THE STRATEGIST

The UK Government delivered its port policy interim review document in mid- July and this raises a number of interesting issues. One in particular appears worthy of comment. The point is made…

1st September 2007

UK ports need realism, not optimism

1st September 2007

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

In the world of shipping we have eternal optimists who would have us believe that growth in trade has reached runaway proportions and will not stop in the foreseeable future. There is…

1st September 2007

Shipping and the sun spot theory of economic cycles

1st September 2007

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Give or take a few US politicians, no-one thinks its workable, no-one wants it, it will be expensive but it is in the pipeline. “ It” is, of course, new legislation in…

1st September 2007

Burst that bubble

1st September 2007

ASIA

ASIA

China’ s Ministry of Communications predicts that domestic ports will be handling 6bn tonnes by 2020 compared with 3.95bn tonnes in 2006. It also anticipates an increase in the amount of foreign…

1st September 2007

CHINA GROWTH EXPLOSION

1st September 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Russia is to invest $1.2bn on a new dry port in the Krasnodar region as a means of reducing the amount of domestic coal and containers shipped from ports in Ukraine. The…

1st September 2007

RUSSIA SIDELINES UKRAINE

1st September 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Six foreign companies and nine Indian companies have indicated in interest in the project to develop a RoRo car terminal at the port of Chennai costing € 142m ($193.7m). This will be…

1st September 2007

CHENNAI CAR TERMINAL

1st September 2007