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NewsSafety on board
Shore-based stevedores risk life and limb when lashing boxes on poorly designed containerships. Felicity Landon investigates
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NewsChennai Port - looking for space
Chennai refuses to be overshadowed by its neighbours, as Stevie Knight discovers
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Red Sea Gateway Terminal facts & figures
The 1m sq m Tusdeer Bonded and Re-export Zone is being developed alongside the Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT) - the intention being to create an integrated logistics hub for the Red Sea region.
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NewsLooking for the luxury market
Felicity Landon reports on Saudi Arabia''s first privately developed container terminal
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NewsPort protection
Felicity Landon reports on the drive to find the best container scanning solutions
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Buy in bulk to save costs
In the interests of keeping operator costs at a minimum throughout the lifetime of cable reel equipment, many operators purchase cables and reels together as a package, says Cavotec Specimas ERTG product manager, Diego Sanchez.
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NewsInnovating to stay connected to customers
Stuart Pearcey investigates the all-important link between cable suppliers and the end client
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NewsGrain handling article
Grain terminals seem to be weathering the economic storm, but equipment manufacturers are having a tougher time of it. Alex Hughes reports
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NewsDredging can unlock a valuable raw material
Just as Dickie Attenborough and Steve McQueen had to invent ingenious ways to dispose of spoil as they worked on tunnels through which to escape Stalag Luft III in The Great Escape, so dredging work requires ingenious solutions to find alternative uses for the spoil it creates.
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NewsMaking the land on which to build economic recovery
Now''s the time to lay the groundwork for future port growth, as Stuart Pearcey finds out
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Looking beyond the price barrier
Regardless of steel price fluctuations, a price differential between European units and cheaper, Asian-manufactured products undoubtedly remains.
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NewsSTS crane article
European crane manufacturers refuse to be squeezed by the Asian price crunch. Alex Hughes reports
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NewsSecurity and IT "critical issues" for dryports
Integration of security and IT systems will be a critical issue in the drive to develop hinterland "gateways" and inland freight hubs, Haven Gateway project director Richard Morton has warned.
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Snags of scanning
Is it worth investing in all-singing, all-dancing scanning technology following US diktats? Possibly not, as Carly Fields finds out
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ABB cranes go the regenerative route
Changing the way cranes use energy can have a major positive impact on energy use, as ABB have proved with the introduction of their automatic cranes.
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NewsLos Angeles looks to the sun for answers
The use of electric vehicles saves a great deal of oil, but arguably shifts the demand from one type of fossil hydrocarbon to another, on the basis that the electricity has to come from somewhere.
