Container & Cargo Handling

Increased demand for petroleum drove Vopak Terminal Singapore Pte Ltd to revisit its jetty layout and capacity at its Petroleum Storage Terminal at Banyan Basin on Singapore’ s Jurong Island. 

Stuart Pearcey discovers that burgeoning demand for iron ore is having a monumental impact on port development in China and Australia

Continent’ s new super-port takes shape, with a facility to rival the traditional Mediterranean mega-hubs. Henrik Byrn reports

Manufacturers are responding to demands for enhanced productivity by introducing more cost-effective, environmentally friendly terminal tractors, as David Foxwell explains

Forget traditional cable-operated mobile harbour cranes, hydraulic units have a better  overall performance, provide higher levels of operator comfort, generate improved cost efficiency, are more operationally precise, are lighter and highly flexible. 

There’ s mounting demand for quayside upgrade projects as ports tussle to accommodate larger ships and swelling volumes, as Alex Hughes finds out

Accelerated Low Water Corrosion – a bacteriological attack on steel – has in the past contributed to the loss of two thirds of the structural design life of many quay walls before…

In signing up Japanese car carrier experts NYK and K Line to its car terminal ambitions, PSA has cemented Singapore’ s number one position, writes Wing Kah-goh