Container & Cargo Handling

Colombo prepares to fight off nearby transhipment challenges. Wing Kah-goh outlines the main contender

Leaving the cable selection to last in the design cycle is a recipe for disaster, as Felicity Landon discovers

With hundreds of containers going overboard each year, Felicity Landon looks at the container lashing issue from the ports perspective

Contrasting schemes from two major consultants prove that there’ s more than one way to skin a port cat, as Alex Hughes discovers

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

Terberg’ s overhaul of its terminal tractors’ powering gear has made a significant dent in fuel consumption, as David Foxwell reports

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

Well-designed and implemented container terminal management systems can make a huge difference to productivity, as David Foxwell finds out

Central Systems & Automation in the UK cites the example of the container terminal management system at the Port of Waterford in Ireland as an excellent example of how technology can help…

Liebherr registers five to 10 secondhand deals for mobile harbour cranes each year,compared will sales of around 70 new units. In the reachstacker business, where the company has a more reduced presence,…

Hamburg is under pressure to accommodate future growth, widely anticipated to be double existing capacity, as Tom Todd discovers

Not all second-hand equipment is good equipment. Alex Hughes finds out that you need guarantees, quality assurance and, crucially, spares