Container & Cargo Handling

Last month’s Port Strategy highlighted the importance of fender research, something that Australia’’s Newcastle port heartily supports.

Automated gates should keep things moving at box ports and terminals. Alex Hughes reports

Port Louis is making sure that it secures a long term future to evade the threat of extinction. Stevie Knight reports

Do large operators get preferential service agreements with the Asia crane manufaturers? Alex Hughes talks to DP World to investigate

Poor after sales service could be undermining the economics of Asian cranes, as Alex Hughes reports

Training drivers to use reachstackers more efficiently is just one way to cost effectively improve productivity, as Alex Hughes reports

Stephanie Knight finds that ship-to-shore crane manufacturers are already thinking beyond the standard 22 container outreach

A Chile-China partnership gives Valparaiso boss reason to be cheerful, as Michael Mackey finds out

Alex Hughes warns of the perils of investing in cut-price grabs