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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Alex Hughes investigates whether transhipment is the pot of gold everyone thinks it is for Mediterranean ports.

1st April 2007

Panacea or potential headache?

1st April 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

While Spanish ports continue to do well, future investment planning at Italys Gioia Tauro has been cast into doubt following recent strikes in both December and February.Relations between majority-owner Conthship Italia and…

1st April 2007

Contship faithful to Gioia Tauro

1st April 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Could Leixões be Europes most industrious box terminal? Alex Hughes finds that the Portuguese port is pushing productivity to impressive levels

1st April 2007

Productivity Portuguese-style

1st April 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Bottleneck or smooth security and processing system? Felicity Landon looks at the latest developments in container terminalgate systems

1st April 2007

Finessing the front end

1st April 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a tremendously powerful technology which nicely complements an efficient gate operating system, says TideworksHarvey Bauer.

1st April 2007

The power of optical character recognition

1st April 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

As gate automation becomes an increasingly complex mix of technologies and systems, the challenge is how to integrate all of these efficiently and cost effectively.

1st April 2007

Navis takes the middle road

1st April 2007

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

It is an interesting phenomenon of the 21st Century that the international container handling market has seen available containerport capacity dry up in so-called mature markets. It happened on the US West…

1st April 2007

Capacity drain

1st April 2007

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

So you want to be a ship-to-ship stevedore? Where do you start? What do you need for kit? Any suggestions on risk management?

1st April 2007

The not-so-simple port alternative

1st April 2007

THE ECONOMIST

THE ECONOMIST

Let me start with an apology. I just cannot get away from the subject of port congestion. The most recent problems have been caused by weather, labour relations (or rather the lack…

1st April 2007

Empty congestion: what in the World is going on?

1st April 2007

THE STRATEGIST

THE STRATEGIST

There are problems at the new Prat Dock container terminal under construction in Barcelona where Hutchison has secured terminal operating rights. Around 500m of the new quay line, that will eventually extend…

1st April 2007

Troubles and tussles on Spains Mediterranean coast

1st April 2007