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The Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) is being proposed as part of the best and most logical solution for US national homeland security needs. This suggestion has been made to the USCG…

1st March 2004

Thales puts forward its Ship Security Alert System

1st March 2004

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MWH has been selected by Port of Antwerp to provide an innovative solution to its sediment problems. It will be among the first times that mechanical dewatering using a chamber filter press…

1st March 2004

Sediment solution for Antwerp

1st March 2004

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HPHs decision to charge shippers and consignees $10.20 per export container and $19.80 per import container at Felixstowe, to recover the cost of complying with the ISPS Code, has been receiving mixed…

1st March 2004

ISPS charge challenged

1st March 2004

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The current main driver for change in the port sector, as in the global energy market, is the increasing demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG). As Mike Corkhill reports, for a growing…

1st January 2004

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS THE NEXT BIG THING IS HERE

1st January 2004

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Lazaro Cardenas Terminal Portuaria de Contenedores (LCT), operated by Hutchinson Port Holdings, has selected Navis SPARCS, the terminal planning and control software, to optimise container-handling operations at its new terminal.

1st January 2004

Lazero Cardenas and Ningpo opt for Navis

1st January 2004

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Transas has installed two VTS systems in the Namibian ports of Walvis Bay and Luderitz. The independent port surveillance systems fitted are to assist port control operators to supervise ship traffic within…

1st January 2004

Namibia and Taiwan opt for Transas

1st January 2004

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Control Risks Groups international maritime division has joined forces with PMSi (Port Maritime Security International) to offer a complete security solution throughout the logistics supply chain.

1st January 2004

PMSi and CRG team up

1st January 2004

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Liebherr-Werk Nenzing delivered 48 units last year including 11 of its biggest crane in its 7-model range, the LHM 500, characterised by a maximum outreach of 51 meters and a lifting capacity…

1st January 2004

Liebherrs uplifting figures

1st January 2004

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Rotterdam' s European Container Terminal (ECT) is continuing the expansion of its Delta container terminal with fully automated stacking equipment developed together with Kalmar.

1st January 2004

Kalmar supplies ASCs to Delta

1st January 2004

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Meanwhile Patrick Stevedores of Brisbane has placed an order for 14 Kalmar ESC straddle carriers to be equipped for unmanned operations.

1st November 2003

..while Patrick goes all the way

1st November 2003

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UK based AS-C Materials Handling has won a contract for the system design of all mechanical, structural, electrical and control elements at a new fertilizer terminal at Muuga, Estonia. AS-C has also…

1st November 2003

New fertilizer terminal for Muuga

1st November 2003

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Belgium' s Hesse-Noord Natie has ordered nine Kalmar EDRIVE ESC straddle carriers for operation in its River Schelde terminals, Quay 869 and Quay 913. This latest order calls for five ESCs with…

1st November 2003

Kalmar strads for Hesse-Noord Natie..

1st November 2003

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HHLA Frucht-und Kuhlzentrum which runs Hamburg' s fruit terminal, has ordered two leading-edge HMK 90 E Mobile Harbour Cranes from Gottwald to enable faster discharging of banana and other fruit cargoes on…

1st November 2003

Gottwalds fruits of success

1st November 2003

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Europes biggest fish processing plant has opened near the port of Sassnitz-Mukran closing a gap in the supply chain between product and consumer in the German Baltic state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The former…

1st November 2003

Sassnitz-Mukran flexes cargo muscles

1st November 2003

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Three supply chain security companies, E. J. Brooks Company, RAE Systems (AMEX: RAE), and Savi Technology have unveiled an interconnected sensor system that adds new levels of intelligence to cargo containers, enabling…

1st November 2003

New container sensor system

1st November 2003

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Maritime and Underwater Security Consultants (MUSC) have been made a Recognised Security Organisation (RSO) for Irish ports. The London-based maritime consultants were awarded the status by the government department of Maritime Safety.…

1st November 2003

MUSC urges faster uptake

1st November 2003

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Lloyd' s List Ports of the World 2004, featuring over 2,600 commercially active ports, has been published. 55 new ports have been added to the two-volume set which costs £ 249/$413.

1st October 2003

Ports of the World is out

1st October 2003

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51morder for four self-propelled split-hopper barges with a capacity of € 3,700m 3each for delivery from March 2005. The barges will be built by Tianjin Xinhe Shipyard in China.

1st October 2003

Jan De Nul builds in China

1st October 2003

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Kalmar' s aim to develop a global production latform for terminal tractors has moved forward with the first units rolling out of its Shanghai assembly plant.

1st October 2003

Kalmars terminal tractors go global

1st October 2003

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The Royal BAM Group' s Ballast HAM Dredging (BHD) and Van Oord are to merge.

1st October 2003

Van Oord to buy out Ballast HAM

1st October 2003