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EUROPE

EUROPE

Kiel’ s focus on the two Cs of cruise and cargo should keep it on a steady course, as Tom Todd reports

1st May 2007

Double-edged strategy

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

Although best known for booming ferry and ro-ro traffic, east Germany’ s biggest port, Rostock, continues to surprise, with eggs in many baskets as part of a strategy of universal, multisector development. 

1st May 2007

Multi-sector plan encourages Rostock cargo growth

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Steel handling specialist WE Dowds says unloading vessels and filling up warehouses is “ the relatively straightforward part” . “ The real challenge, and the benchmark we use to gauge how well…

1st May 2007

Facing the real challenges

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Liebherr registers five to 10 secondhand deals for mobile harbour cranes each year,compared will sales of around 70 new units. In the reachstacker business, where the company has a more reduced presence,…

1st May 2007

Second-hand still a niche market

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Not all second-hand equipment is good equipment. Alex Hughes finds out that you need guarantees, quality assurance and, crucially, spares

1st May 2007

Panning for gold

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

BMT’ s ports and logistics division says it receives two or three serious enquiries every year to help terminal operators identify second-hand equipment. Managing director David Wignall explains why punters engage a…

1st May 2007

Second-hand sourcing neednt be a minefield

1st May 2007

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Port operators are used to being bombarded with new rules and regulations – and environmental “ issues” generally lead the field. Felicity Landon reports

1st May 2007

Legislation overload

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Manufacturers of auto-mooring equipment for ports and harbours see only benefits for users,as David Foxwell explains

1st May 2007

Faster, safer, more secure

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Patrick Rosenwald, technical director of Cavotec Specimas, believes that the benefits of the MoorMaster automated mooring system are best illustrated by the results of testing done at the Port of Salalah in…

1st May 2007

Salalah tests put MoorMaster through its paces

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Hamburg is under pressure to accommodate future growth, widely anticipated to be double existing capacity, as Tom Todd discovers

1st May 2007

Dizzying demands

1st May 2007

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Kotkas monster gate operating system will unite two competing operators without compromising data privacy. Felicity Landon reports

1st May 2007

Finnish record breakers

1st May 2007

EUROPE

EUROPE

A review of Scottish ports’ policy produced few recommendations for change, instead it highlighted the importance of landside infrastructure links, as David Foxwell reports

1st May 2007

Lack of Spark

1st May 2007

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

The Port of Dakar, Senegal is reportedly in the process of privatising its container terminal facilities – or is it? 

1st May 2007

Show your hand

1st May 2007

THE STRATEGIST

THE STRATEGIST

It used to be that we were inundated with newsworthy reports on security issues and the various programmes and schemes with interesting acronyms such as TWIC and CTPAT. The lesson there was…

1st May 2007

The environmental issue: hot topic or here to stay?

1st May 2007

THE STRATEGIST

THE STRATEGIST

It has become increasingly clear in the last two or three years that there is a growing requirement to consider in greater detail the aspect of exit arrangements from a terminal concession…

1st May 2007

Re-writing the concessioning small print

1st May 2007

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

In the UK,if you turn on the radio,look at the television or read the newspaper it is virtually guaranteed that you will be exposed to an array of facts, discussions or opinions…

1st May 2007

Reality check

1st May 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone Limited intends to raise ¢ 310m ($421m) via an IPO, which would be the first time any Indian port operator has used this method as a…

1st May 2007

MUNDRA IPO

1st May 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Xiamen International Container Terminals has taken delivery of two post-panamax quayside gantry cranes and six mobile harbour cranes, bringing to 38 the overall number of cranes owned by the facility. XICT is…

1st May 2007

XICT ADDS QUAYSIDE LIFT

1st May 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Workers belonging to Chittagong port authority implemented a policy of nonco- operation following the takeover of management of the container terminal by private company Saif Powertec.

1st May 2007

Chittagong go-slow cripples operations

1st May 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Karachi Port Trust is rethinking its plan to link the proposed Pakistan Deepwater Container Port by a six kilometre long causeway following an initial cost assessment.

1st May 2007

KPT re-thinks causeway plan

1st May 2007