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EUROPE

EUROPE

Emanuele Grimaldi has been managing director of the Naples-based Grimaldi Group since 1986 having previously worked as line manager on the companys various international services. Alex Hughes talks to a shipowner who…

1st September 2004

TIGHTENING HIS GRIP ON THE VEHICLE SECTOR

1st September 2004

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

The debate rumbles on: is a reachstacker better suited to handling full containers in the yard than a forklift? Nick Elliott finds there are arguments for either solution.

1st September 2004

REACH OR LIFT WHATS IT TO BE?

1st September 2004

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Another way to reinforce steel piling that has been subjected to ALWC is to use a reinforcing concrete. UK-based Flexcrete uses a wide range of purpose-designed marine mortars, sprayed mortars and unique…

1st September 2004

MORTAR IN THE WATER

1st September 2004

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

TERMINAL OPERATIONS

Despite extensive research now being undertaken, for the time being there is little comprehensive, independent, user-friendly guidance available about Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC), perhaps the most serious problem affecting steel piling…

1st September 2004

SEEKING SOLUTIONS TO ALWC

1st September 2004

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

CONCESSIONS & INVESTMENTS

Port organisations say the latest environmental legislation from Brussels - the Water Framework Directive (WFD) - could have adverse effects on essential operations such as maintenance dredging, as David Foxwell explains.

1st September 2004

PORTS HIGHLIGHT CONCERNS ABOUT LATEST EU LEGISLATION

1st September 2004

ASIA

ASIA

Black Sea ports have traditionally been served by feeders out of Istanbul, Malta, Piraeus and even Gioia Tauro rather than being subject to calls from liner services. However, as the region increasingly…

1st September 2004

DIRECT CALLS FOR NORTHERN BLACK SEA PORTS

1st September 2004

POST SCRIPT

POST SCRIPT

Every so often something really nasty comes along doesnt it?

1st September 2004

Its life Jim, but not as we know it

1st September 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Fifteen companies have bid to provide a dual gauge rail access to Valencias key southern zone where container traffic is being progressively concentrated.

1st September 2004

..with new rail link to boost box traffic..

1st September 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

The ports number twocontainer terminal, TCV, continues to experience significant congestion problems following 18 months of consecutive volume growth.

1st September 2004

..meanwhile TCV is a victim of its own success

1st September 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

The P& O Group recently delivered a half-year trading report that highlighted the strong performance of the groups core P& O Ports division.

1st September 2004

P&O Ports star performer in group half-year report

1st September 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Valenciaport is to transfer all shortsea shipping services and new vehicles traffic to a new area based around an extension of the ports Eastern Dyke. A new 250 metre-wide quay, some 1,000…

1st September 2004

Valencia consolidates shortsea shipping..

1st September 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

The Hamburg Port Marketing Association has generated the table below, which provides an interesting snapshot of performance in the main part of the north European port range up until the middle of…

1st September 2004

China and Russia fuel northern port growth

1st September 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Perhaps not surprisingly, Hamburg's own performance in container and general cargo terms stands out - showing the highest growth in general cargo tonnage and container throughput, 17.2% at 37,452,00 tonnes and 15.9%…

1st September 2004

CEMENT PLANT FOR MARSEILLES

1st September 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

In an interesting move that may be followed by others to obtain similar funding, the European Commission has provided ?1.79m of aid for the extra labour required to handle containers as a…

1st September 2004

EC aid for congestion

1st September 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Rotterdam Port Authority ceo Willem Scholten has resigned following financial blunders that could cost Rotterdam € 100m. Between 2002 and the present, the Port of Rotterdam granted guarantees on bank loans of…

1st September 2004

PORT BOSS QUITS

1st September 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Tideworks Technology of Seattle has been selected to be part of a team led by Computer Sciences Corporation to provide terminal operating system support to the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU)…

1st September 2004

Tideworks Technology for military

1st September 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Nearly two years on from its introduction, Kalmar is reporting success with its medium-weight FLT range offering capacities of between nine and 18 tonnes. Greater service intervals, enhanced availability and operating costs…

1st September 2004

..and reports success for medium-weight FLTs

1st September 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Gottwald Port Technology has announced its diversification into another sector of the cargo-handling equipment supply market - pontoon mounted cranes, or barge cranes. At the same time, it has reported the first…

1st September 2004

..and Gottwald diversification

1st September 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Tideworks is to install its Mainsail Terminal Management System and Spinnaker Planning Management System at the terminal - integrated terminal operating and planning software solutions for marine terminals, intermodal yards and container…

1st September 2004

ABG BAGS MORRIS DESIGNS

1st September 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Cargo handling equipment supplier Kalmar is to invest $10m in a new assembly plant in the Shanghai area.

1st September 2004

Kalmar to open Shanghai assembly plant..

1st September 2004