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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

ASIA

ASIA

K-Line group company, the Daito Corporation, has ordered three hybrid cranes for Ohi Terminal in Tokyo and Honmoku Terminal in Yokohama.

1st May 2007

K-Line hybrid cranes mark Japan first

1st May 2007

ASIA

ASIA

In a major coup for the Korean port, Busan has lured Mediterranean Shipping Companys transhipment business from Chinas Ningbo Port.

1st May 2007

Busan transhipment coup

1st May 2007

ASIA

ASIA

Chennai Port Trust has released the terms of the recently-awarded PSA-Sical 30-year concession to operate the second container terminal in the port.

1st May 2007

Chennai two terms confirmed

1st May 2007

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A new subsidiary company, Port Properties, has been created by Port Marlborough to manage its NZ$50m ($36.8m)- valued property assets.The move is a reflection of the volume and scale of the property…

1st May 2007

PORT MARLBOROUGH ESTABLISHES PROPERTY SUBSIDIARY

1st May 2007