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RAM is to deliver six MHC spreaders to Brazil, with four of those pegged for Santos Brasil.

22nd November 2011

RAM popular in the Americas

22nd November 2011

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France’s Marseilles Fos and Italy’s Livorno port authorities are to team up to manage a research project on management tools to monitor and estimate greenhouse gas emissions by ports.

21st November 2011

New Climeport emissions study launched

21st November 2011

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Research commissioned by leading European ports has found that Northern seaports offer the most efficient route for container transport into a large part of the central European hinterland.

21st November 2011

NEA puts Northern Europe on top

21st November 2011

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Cavotec has won an order for automated mooring technology for Fortescue Metals Group for use at Port Hedland in Western Australia.

21st November 2011

Cavotec nets 24-strong order

21st November 2011

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Software specialist Total Soft Bank has won over the second largest container terminal in Valencia.

21st November 2011

Valencian contract for TSB

21st November 2011

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Qatar Navigation Services is to employ Jade’s Master Terminal to make the switch from a paper-based system container processing system.

24th October 2011

Qatar plumps for Jade

24th October 2011

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Gate specialist CAMCO Technologies is to supply its Gate Automation system to the greenfield MSC terminal in Fos-sur-Mer, France.

24th October 2011

Fos opens gate to CAMCO

24th October 2011

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Manufacturer Cargotec is to invest E35m ($48.4m) in a testing centre in Tampere, Finland.

23rd October 2011

Cargotec testing centre on track

23rd October 2011

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Liebherr Container Cranes has secured an order for the supply of two ship-to-shore cranes to Marsa Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco.

20th October 2011

Liebherr awarded Moroccan contract

20th October 2011

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An incident on the quay, caused by twistlocks not being fully disengaged or getting jammed in the castings, can hold-up operations and result in costly repairs.

20th October 2011

Lasstec helps prevent accidental lifting

20th October 2011

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

19th October 2011

Cargotec do US port automation

19th October 2011

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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…

17th October 2011

Maersk calls ports to the table

17th October 2011

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

17th October 2011

Trelleborg secures new contract with Salerno Port

17th October 2011

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

14th October 2011

Keeping the detail in view

14th October 2011

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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.

13th October 2011

Smaller feeders face marginalisation

13th October 2011

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Konecranes has received an order for ten Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes from Ports and Cargo Handling Services Ltd in Lagos, Nigeria.

6th October 2011

Nigerian order for Konecranes

6th October 2011

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Konecranes has said it is starting negotiations regarding possible temporary layoffs in Finland in response to what it calls a “weakened demand” for its machine-tool services.

29th September 2011

Konecranes temporary layoffs

29th September 2011

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

29th September 2011

Light masts star in radio role

29th September 2011

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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.

22nd September 2011

Ports need clearer piracy procedures

22nd September 2011

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Tideworks is to implement its TOS solutions at APL’s new intermodal facility in Joliet, Illinois. Scheduled to go live in the fourth quarter of 2011, the project will serve APL’s customers in…

22nd September 2011

Tideworks TOS to service APL

22nd September 2011