Equipment

Cargotec has won a major port automation contract in the US.

Describing 2009 as “a year we would rather forget”, Lars Oestergaard Nielsen, managing director UAE, Qatar, Oman & Iran, Maersk Line has called on the ports industry to help it level out…

Trelleborg Marine Systems has secured a new contract to supply Super Cone Fenders and Tee Head bollards to Salerno Port in Italy.

It’s not the information you have but what you do with it – this is the message from James Cutler of emapsite.

The recent wave of newbuilding contracts for vessels of over 8,000 teu will start to tell on the ports themselves, as smaller feeder facilities start feeling the impact of the increases.

Taking an innovative stance on fast deployment and cost savings, one US container facility is making light fittings double up as radio masts.

Ports in piracy-threatened regions must make clear how they will accommodate armed guards and issue transparent guidelines to shipowners and operators, Dom Mee, president of Protection Vessels International, has warned.