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CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

CONTAINER & CARGO HANDLING

Today' s pneumatic unloaders offer significant operational advantages but energy consumption can be a prohibitive issue, writes Benedict Young

1st June 2003

Bulky issues

1st June 2003

THE INSURER

THE INSURER

It is said that in the rather anxious aftermath of the 911 outrage, officials in the Bush administration looked around at the shipping and transport industry and saw in all its openness…

1st June 2003

The soft UNDERBELLY

1st June 2003

VIEWPOINT

VIEWPOINT

Management is the word that underpins portstrategy, the new magazine for your industry. portstrategy, or PS as we call it, is designed to meet the modern information needs of port and terminal…

1st June 2003

THAT MAGIC WORD MANAGEMENT

1st June 2003

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The first quarter results reported by Halterm, one of the two Halifax container terminal operators, show a goodwill write down of C$56m and tell the story of dark days ahead for the…

1st June 2003

Clock ticking at Halterm

1st June 2003

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Port of Long Beach, USA has cleared the way for the development of a US$400m liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG) on Terminal Island, the first facility of its kind to be…

1st June 2003

First USWC LNG Terminal

1st June 2003

EUROPE

EUROPE

Dredging capability review: it' s all about size, technology and the right people, reports David Robinson

1st June 2003

Scale technology people

1st June 2003

EUROPE

EUROPE

Clydeport has announced a full environmental study conducted by Halcrow for its proposed international container transhipment terminal at the Hunterston deep-water site on the Clyde.

1st June 2003

Clydeport commits to Hunterston hub environmental study

1st June 2003

ASIA

ASIA

Singapore-based Portek International has secured a contract from Indonesias Pelindo IV to jointly operate a container terminal at Sulawesis port of Makassar which handles close to 200,000 TEUs annually.

1st June 2003

Portek to operate Makassar

1st June 2003

AFRICA

AFRICA

The Caribbeans premier container transhipment hub, the Port of Kingston, Jamaica, has announced a fourth-phase expansion ahead of its terminal facilities in a move designed to consolidate and expand container business.

1st June 2003

US$65m Expansion for Kingston

1st June 2003

NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICA

The Vancouver Port Authority has announced that it expects to begin construction of a new $800m container terminal at Roberts Bank by 2007.

1st June 2003

New Box Terminal for Vancouver

1st June 2003

ASIA

ASIA

Major Hong Kong terminal operators Hongkong International Terminals (HIT), Modern Terminals Limited and COSCO-HIT Terminals (Hong Kong) Limited have formed a new joint venture company, OnePort, that will provide an open, secure…

1st June 2003

OnePort to Enhance Hong Kongs Competitiveness

1st June 2003

ASIA

ASIA

PSA Corporation has made an undisclosed investment in Thailands Laem Chabang container port which will help PSA consolidate its presence in the regional market where the competition have been busy lately.

1st June 2003

PSA acquires stake in ESCO Laem Chabang

1st June 2003

EUROPE

EUROPE

Lluis Badia, president of Tarragona Port Authority, has revealed that representatives from Maersk Sealand (MSL) are discussing the possibility of transferring the company' s current Algeciras-based transhipment operation to the Catalan port.

1st June 2003

Maersk Sealand weigh up Tarragona

1st June 2003

EUROPE

EUROPE

Terminal Intermodale Venezia (TIV) signalled its entrance to the container handling business in Venice, Italy, with the handling of its first Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) vessel in mid-May. Four MSC vessels per…

1st June 2003

MSC Commits to New Venice Terminal

1st June 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

DFDS Tor Line has expanded its rental and maintenance agreement with Kalmar to cover its terminal in Maasvlakte, Holland and the North Sea Terminal in Norway.

1st June 2003

DFDS Tor Line go for rental

1st June 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kalmar' s automatic steering and container position verification system, Smartrail, introduced in 1997, has been granted an international patent.

1st June 2003

Retrofitting Smartrail

1st June 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Jv contractors Hyundai and China Civil Engineering Construction are using Atlas Copco portable compressors and generating sets for quay wall piling works on Hong Kong' s new six-berth container terminal.

1st June 2003

Atlas Copco provide site power at Hong Kongs Terminal Nine

1st June 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The US West Coast port of Long Beach has called for tenders for a video surveillance system that will include up to 50 cameras and is estimated to cost around US$5.5m.

1st June 2003

Long Beach Beefs Up Security..

1st June 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Yantian International Terminals has placed a massive order for 57 container cranes with Chinese crane builder Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co.

1st June 2003

Massive Crane Order

1st June 2003

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Gottwald Port Technology is supplying four of its new Wide Span Gantry (WSG) cranes to riverside terminals on the Rhine.

1st June 2003

Gottwald adds Wide Span Gantry cranes

1st June 2003