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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Tideworks has just announced the availability of Intermodal Pro, a comprehensive terminal operating system (TOS) for intermodal terminals.

8th May 2010

Tideworks releases intermodal software

8th May 2010

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

The US Port of Seattle has labelled itself “the cleanest, greenest, most energy-efficient port in the nation”, and a key part of this has been signing a number of Memorandums of Understandings…

7th May 2010

Seattles clean and green ambitions

7th May 2010

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Todays average port website might feature rather more information on that port’s green activities than its commercial ones. Felicity Landon reports

6th May 2010

A cuckoo in the nest

6th May 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Security matters have taken centre stage in Jamaica as its Maritime Authority joined forces with Canadian experts to develop a comprehensive national security strategy.

6th May 2010

Jamaica calls on Canada’s security expertise

6th May 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Conductix-Wampfler AG’s electrified ryber-tyred gantry cranes are to be used in the Express Yard in South Korea, the Nagoya United Container Terminal in Japan, and the New Century Container Terminal in China.…

6th May 2010

Electric RTGs for SE Asia

6th May 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) managed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 32% last year.

5th May 2010

WWL cuts greenhouse emissions

5th May 2010

ASIA

ASIA

Manila’s North Harbour Port Inc (MNHPI) has spoken out at charges that its fees will hit consumers by challenging the shipping lines to bring down both cargo and passenger rates following its…

5th May 2010

Manila’s challenge to shipping lines

5th May 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill might well disrupt a number of ports operations. US press secretary Robert Gibbs and other officials briefed the media with an update, saying that “the area…

5th May 2010

Oil spill update from US

5th May 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

The third takeover proposal for Forth Ports has been unanimously rejected on the basis that it was too low. Worth around an estimated £640 million (US$973m) the bid, like the previous two,…

5th May 2010

Forth Ports holds off Northstream again

5th May 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

In the run up to the election, Julian Brazier, the Conservative shadow minister for Aviation and Shipping was quizzed about the Tory stance toward the backdated rates fiasco.

5th May 2010

UK election promises for ports and shipping industry

5th May 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Ports of Auckland has expanded its customer offering by combining its suite of information and cargo management systems into one online product.

5th May 2010

Auckland advances online offering

5th May 2010

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

As I write this column, the UK is just emerging from yet another day of airspace troubles; the result of Iceland’s hard-to-pronounce volcano slewing thousands of tonnes of ash into the skies.

5th May 2010

A watery rebirth

5th May 2010

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

In these less frenetic times, everyone from customers to customs has more to time to read the small print.

4th May 2010

Check the small print

4th May 2010

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has been recognised through the port of Long Beach’s Green Flag award for the fifth consecutive year.

4th May 2010

K Line wins Green Flag for fifth year

4th May 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

An axle for heavy-duty empty container handlers has been introduced by AxleTech. The axle incorporates wheel-end technology that can reduce tyre wear by as much as 60%.

4th May 2010

New axle extends tyre life

4th May 2010

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

As trade volumes have fallen and times have become less frenetic, port insurance claims have slowed, reports Felicity Landon

3rd May 2010

Claims camouflage

3rd May 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

Two consortia have bid to operate the multipurpose terminal at the Italian port of Genova. These are headed by Messina/Gavio and Grendi, Spinelli and Pastorino, with the former having been assessed as…

3rd May 2010

Two bid for Genova MP terminal

3rd May 2010

EUROPE

EUROPE

A $32m contract is to be offered by the Federal State Unitary Enterprise RosMorPort for the development of technical documents and construction of eight terminals at Sochi seaport. Three of these will…

3rd May 2010

Sochi to have eight new terminals

3rd May 2010

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The Australian port of Portland has brought another bank into its funding portfolio as part of its moves to refinance its senior secured debt facility. The port had an existing relationship with…

3rd May 2010

Portland adds bank to secure debt

3rd May 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Itapoá Terminais Portuários, a port located in Santa Catarina in the south of Brazil, will implement the NavisTM SPARCS N4 system from Zebra Enterprise Solutions with plans to go live by 2011.…

3rd May 2010

Itapoá Terminal gets SPARCS system

3rd May 2010

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Iraqi Transport Minister, Amer Abdul-Jabbar, has announced that an Italian consortium is to construct a new port at Al-Faw.

2nd May 2010

New Al-Faw port project

2nd May 2010

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Gottwald has unveiled a new energy-saving hybrid drive, employing state-of-the-art diesel generators in connection with dynamic brake resistors and short-term energy storage to achieve fuel savings in the double-digit percentage range.

1st May 2010

Gottwald cranes get onboard energy store

1st May 2010

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

HFWs Flora Stewart asks if the disjointed safety regimes in place in the UK go far enough to protect dockworkers

30th April 2010

Safe and sound

30th April 2010