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EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

UK-based security equipment specialist PW Allen has redesigned its range of CEM Search mirrors - mirrors used to look under vehicles and access other normally difficult to-access areas.

1st September 2004

Search mirror redesign

1st September 2004

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

Smith' s Detection has received an order from the Australian Customs Service for its newly introduced container/ palletised goods cargo X-ray system, HI-SCAN 250250, to go into service at Adelaide.

1st September 2004

X-ray system for Adelaide

1st September 2004

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The direct economic benefits of deepening the channels of Australias premier container port have been estimated by consultants Meyrick and Associates, at US$851m over 25 years.

1st July 2004

FAVOURABLE ECONOMIC BENEFITS

1st July 2004

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

It would be overstretching the point to suggest that New Zealand is facing a turning point in its ports and land transport development. But if some of the country’ s leading transportation…

1st July 2004

Port Interface the Concern For New Zealand

1st July 2004

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The bulk carrier log-jam off the Australian east coast has finally dissipated to manageable levels following drastic action at the countrys major coal port. Chris Taylor reports on the reasons behind the…

1st July 2004

CHINESE DEMAND BEHIND THE ARMADA CRISIS

1st July 2004

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The $289m port of Melbourne channel-deepening project in Port Phillip Bay was effectively given the green light in July after the public release of a long-awaited environmental effects statement (EES).

1st July 2004

CHANNEL DEEPENING SET FOR GREEN LIGHT

1st July 2004

OCEANIA

OCEANIA

The first breach in Australias stevedoring market duopoly of P& O Ports and Patrick for several years could take place in the countrys far west. Fremantle Ports (FP) has quietly set off…

1st July 2004

FREMANTLE: NEXT TO TAKE ON BOX DUOPOLY?

1st July 2004

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Tom Todd assesses the experiences of two of Europes leading terminals with automation.

1st July 2004

ALTENWERDER AND DELTA COUNT COST OF AUTOMATION

1st July 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The total market for global capital dredging projects is worth somewhere in the region of € 7 billion although only about half the contracts awarded could be said to be the result…

1st July 2004

THE BOOM IS OVER BUT ITS NOT A COLLAPSE

1st July 2004

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Dredging for South Africa' s new Coega deepwater port in the Eastern Cape is progressing for completion by the end of the year. The project - on Algoa Bay at the mouth…

1st July 2004

DREDGING PROGRESS AT SOUTH AFRICAS NEW DEEPWATER PORT

1st July 2004

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Duane Kenagy and Larry Nye of US consultants Moffatt & Nichol (M& N) report on developments in California to ensure containers move quickly and cleanly through the port interface.

1st July 2004

THE CALIFORNIAN WAY

1st July 2004

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

In contrast, the progress being made in development of Shanghais logistics industry is far quicker. 15 April saw the opening of Chinas first logistics park, situated close to the citys Waigaoqiao container…

1st July 2004

LOGISTICS, LOGISTICS, LOGISTICS

1st July 2004

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Shanghai is fast becoming the centre of the world, as far as the container shipping industry and the port companies which serve it are concerned. And the ports current work-in-progress, the leviathan…

1st July 2004

CENTRE OF THE WORLD

1st July 2004

ASIA

ASIA

Belgian dredging contractor Jan De Nul has recently been awarded more than € 200m worth of contracts. In Hong Kong, landfall dredging and close to 1.5m tons of rock-dumping has to be…

1st July 2004

Jan De Nul

1st July 2004

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

The Australian Waterfront is the product of three main forces, only one of which is native to the Lucky Country. First and foremost is the influence of the thin band of settlement…

1st July 2004

THE ANTIPODEAN WATERFRONT

1st July 2004

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Credence is still given in certain circles to the idea that in order to provide a really competitive container handling service there has to be more than two companies providing such a…

1st July 2004

THIRD FORCE ARGUMENT FADES

1st July 2004

EUROPE

EUROPE

Spanish stevedoring group Dragados-SPL intends to invest € 74.5m on various projects during the current year of which the opening of the initial phase of the Malaga container terminal will absorb €…

1st July 2004

DRAGADOS SPLASHES OUT

1st July 2004

AFRICA

AFRICA

Assores financial director, Chris Cory, says capacity constraints at railways and ports in South Africa could hold back exports. " With the surging demand of China, the only limits on our exports…

1st July 2004

ASSORES WARNING

1st July 2004

ASIA

ASIA

Thailands deepwater port of Laem Chabang is to get six new terminals in a tender believed to be worth $400m.

1st July 2004

Laem Chabang tenders

1st July 2004

ASIA

ASIA

The tender will combine BOT with concession contracts but is for all six terminals as a single contract and operators will not be able to bid for individual terminals. The tender closes…

1st July 2004

FOURTH TERMINAL FOR KARACHI

1st July 2004