Container & Cargo Handling

The increased complexity of modern electronics and diagnostic systems, in Iain Robertsons view, is a good thing.

Chennairefuses to be overshadowed by its neighbours, as Stevie Knight discovers

Felicity Landon reports on Saudi Arabias first privately developed container terminal

In the highly competitive UK grain market, terminals are reluctant to release information on actual volumes handled or, indeed, forecast how much grain will pass through terminals this year.

Not all ports have specialist grain discharge berths as space often predicates against permanently positioning a grain unloader on a berth, since it prevents it being used for other commodities.

Grain terminals seem to be weathering the economic storm, but equipment manufacturers are having a tougher time of it. Alex Hughes reports