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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Operators shopping for a new gate management system must take time to consider the unique needs of their port or terminal. Felicity Landon reports

14th November 2007

Gate Systems

14th November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Where gate systems in the past were limited to identification only,todays systems require container and truck optical characterrecognition (OCR), IMO label detection, video files, voice over IP,biometric identification of driver, damage inspection…

14th November 2007

Simple identification is now old hat

14th November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

When goals are clearly defined at the beginning, it is relatively easy to work towards them, says John Lund, sales manager of Finlands Visy.

14th November 2007

Something to aim for

14th November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Proper integration and clear advance planning are key factors for ports looking to install automated gate systems, says Phil Elovic, chief executive of optical character recognition (OCR) specialist Hi-Tech Solutions (HTS).

14th November 2007

Optimising

14th November 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Kao Ming Container Terminal Corporation has been awarded a 50-year BOT contract to operate the initial phase of the International Container Terminal at the Port of Kaohsiung, the ports sixth container terminal.…

14th November 2007

Yang Ming in Kaoshiung

14th November 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Work has begun on the new SP-PSA International Port joint-venture container terminal located on the Cai Mep-Thi Vai River in Vietnam. Development will be in two phases, with the first operational in…

14th November 2007

Chinese port work up and running

14th November 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Work on the fourth phase of the Qingdao Qianwan container terminal development has begun. 

14th November 2007

Qianwan development on the way

14th November 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The Victorian Government has moved to clear a legislative path for dredging to begin in the Port of Melbourne.

13th November 2007

Legislation clears Melbourne for dredging

13th November 2007

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Frans Jol, managing director of Salerno-based Esoware, is promotingthe companys terminal management software programmes as cost effectivealternatives to those offered by the big three software sellers.

13th November 2007

Esoware

13th November 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A 177-hectare block of land adjacent to theMarsden Point port complex has been put on the market to attract complementary businesses.Northland Port Corporation also plans to lease back 60 hectares of the…

11th November 2007

Northland land sale

11th November 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

UK supermarket chain Tesco has made use of the Englands extensive canal network to transportsupplies from the Port of Liverpool to Manchester.

10th November 2007

Liverpool pioneers green canal shuttle

10th November 2007

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Port equipment manufacturer Liebherr hashanded over a new mobile harbour crane to the Portof Tanjung Perak, the second largestport in Indonesia.

10th November 2007

Liebherr handover

10th November 2007

ASIA

ASIA

DP World and the MMC Berhad Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop 9.125m sq m of land in South Johor, Malaysia. This will be used to develop a $5bn…

10th November 2007

DP World active in Malaysia

10th November 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Ecuadors General Directorate of the Merchant Marine (Digmer) has been renamed the National Aquatic Spaces Organisation (Dirnea). 

10th November 2007

Re-structuring of maritime bodies in Ecuador

10th November 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Participants in European ports initiativePort-Net have called for a more practical second programme as the first drawsto a close.

9th November 2007

Port-Net II on the cards

9th November 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Increased Chinese imports are making operations at Portugals only deep-water port of Sines ever more viable, claims concessionaire PSA.

9th November 2007

Chinese lines eye Sines

9th November 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Hong Kong-based China Merchants Holdings (CMH) has reached an agreement with the municipality of Zhanjiang to transform Zhanjiang Port Group into a private company, Zhanjiang Port (Group) Co Ltd, with a capital…

9th November 2007

CMH active in Zhanjiang

9th November 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Port of Tauranga has called for Auckland Regional Holdings (ARH) to disclose the independent report it commissioned on the Auckland-Tauranga port merger proposal.

8th November 2007

NZ news snippets

8th November 2007

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

Libra Terminal Rio, which operates two container terminals in the Port of Rio de Janeiro, has added coffee handling to its skills. The cargo is loaded in containers at the companys off-dock…

8th November 2007

Libra introduces off-dock loading

8th November 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Forklift trucks for empty container handling are proving their prowess on the quay, as Felicity Landon discovers

7th November 2007

Forklifts article

7th November 2007