NZ news snippets

Christchurchs Syft Technologies is to supply up to five Voice200 SIFT-MS units to the Canada Border Services Agency. The units are designed to help protect border services officers and port workers from exposure to volatile chemicals sometimes found in containers.

The building needed to house imported cars following shipment and create a workspace for the vehicles to be prepared, before delivery to motor dealerships.

Port Strategy New Zealand news snippets (April 2008)

KIWI TECHNOLOGY FOR CANADIAN CUSTOMS

Christchurch’s Syft Technologies is to supply up to five Voice200 SIFT-MS units to the Canada Border Services Agency. The units are designed to help protect border services officers and port workers from exposure to volatile chemicals sometimes found in containers.

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LPC REDUCES LTIs

An inhouse-developed training programme has significantly reduced lost time incidents (LTIs) at Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC). Intended to break automated habits and increase overall awareness, the programme has seen the port go 127 days with just one recordable LTI.

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GOOD YEAR FOR CAVOTEC

Cavotec MSL Holdings has achieved a comparable 8.7% rise in after-tax profit to NZ$14 million dollars and 16.9% increase in revenue to NZ$247.3 million for the calendar year to December 31.

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FUTURE LNG TERMINAL CONSENTS SOUGHT

Gasbridge is to seek resource consent to build a NZ$600 million LNG import terminal at Port Taranaki, should any future shortage in New Zealand’s natural gas supply emerge.