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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Questions are being asked, but many ports are still not serious about building facilities to support automation, reports David Foxwell

1st September 2006

Cautious curiosity

1st September 2006

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Despite so much talk of intelligent seals, the majority of containers still dont have any technical seal at all. " Most have normal physical seals which can easily be bolt-cropped, " says…

1st September 2006

Sealed and secured

1st September 2006

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

With two organisations now pledging to produce standardised container security measures, manufacturers are concerned that the message will become mixed. Felicity Landon reports

1st September 2006

Threat of standards stalemate

1st September 2006

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Over the last decade, management techniques have evolved substantially, with one of the most highly regarded being the so-called " strategic performance management" , or SPM, theory. Already in use worldwide by…

1st September 2006

The measure of management

1st September 2006

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The PLA is responsible for all traffic on the tidal Thames as far as Teddington Lock to the West London. To date, smaller vessels have been exempt from mandatory Automatic Identification System…

1st September 2006

PLA seeks equipment supplier

1st September 2006

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The PLA has long been a supporter of identification systems, despite the major expenditure required to introduce AIS equipment, as Alex Hughes found out

1st September 2006

London blazes trail

1st September 2006

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Singapore has held on to the top box port crown for two years running, but can it hold off rival Hong Kong for a third? Peter Trevalyn thinks not

1st September 2006

Lion City port losing its roar

1st September 2006

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

In the case of London Gateway, it is already known that costs for the project have spiralled hugely since the original days of the projects conception and its early development under P&…

1st September 2006

Gateway spiral

1st September 2006

ASIA

ASIA

DP World Tianjin Holdings - a joint-venture between DP World and the Tianjin Port Group - is to build and manage a new container terminal at the Chinese port of Tianjin.

1st September 2006

Tianjin keeps pace with more box terminals

1st September 2006

ASIA

ASIA

Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) recorded a throughput of 2.24m teu in the first six months of 2006, cementing its place as the busiest port in Malaysia. The 2.24m teu represents an…

1st September 2006

Record first half for PTP

1st September 2006

ASIA

ASIA

Labour relations at the Indian East Coast port of Chennai continue to undermine productivity at the ports container terminal and have led to calls for the immediate creation of a second box…

1st September 2006

Chennai box terminal demands

1st September 2006

ASIA

ASIA

The current relationship between Chittagong Port Authority and local feeder vessel operators has recently become strained following the decision by the latter to impose a congestion surcharge on every container handled.

1st September 2006

Chittagong port authority at odds with feeder operators

1st September 2006

ASIA

ASIA

APM Terminals, CMA-CGM, DP World, ETA, ICTS, Gammon Infrastructure, IL&FS, GVK, Soma Enterprises and Concor are all interested in bidding. India's Mundra Port, managed by the Adani Group, will add four new…

1st September 2006

MUNDRA TO ADD MORE BERTHS

1st September 2006

ASIA

ASIA

Hyundai Merchant Marine sister company Haeyoung Maritime Service has contracted Transas Groups distributor in Korea to supply simulators in South Korea after a false start with another unnamed supplier.

1st September 2006

Transas scoops Korean business

1st September 2006

ASIA

ASIA

Yangshan Harbour in Shanghai, which opened for business in December last year, has reported traffic of 1.27m teu in the first six months of this year.

1st September 2006

YANGSHAN FIRST HALF

1st September 2006

MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EAST

Oman International Container Terminal, at the port of Sohar, has acquired four ZPMC RTGs equipped with global positioning systems.

1st September 2006

ZPMC RTGs for Sohar

1st September 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The state of bulk ports in South Australia has copped criticism from a Perth mining company, which says the " poor standard" of ports has prevented a proposed major iron/copper/gold mining operation…

1st September 2006

South Australian ports come under fire

1st September 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Container depot operator Specialised Container Services (SCS) has taken over the management of the south Auckland-based container yard MetroBox.

1st September 2006

SCS MANAGES METROBOX

1st September 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

A NZ$6m Gottwald HMK300E mobile harbour crane is expected to become fully operational at the Port of Napier in early September.

1st September 2006

New mobile harbour crane for Napier

1st September 2006

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

For the first half of 2008 overall, the index registered 13.7 days, which compares with the 22.9 days reported 12 months ago. Australia's Toll Holdings Ltd is expecting to make savings of…

1st September 2006

TOLL FINDS BIG SAVINGS AT PATRICK

1st September 2006