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NewsThe electrification of ports
Once viewed as a fashionable ''green'' statement, self sufficient power generation is in today''s ports less of a luxury and more a necessity, as Patrik Wheater finds out
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Energy capture to fuel Russian port
As part of its expansion plans, Russia''s National Container Company has ordered 19 energy-efficient rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes from Konecranes, to meet an anticipated annual capacity of 9m teu.
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Weighing the benefits
The port of Los Angeles has calculated the potential annual environmental benefits it can achieve from the 1.2m drayage trips its tractors make every year between the port and its nearby Intermodal Container Transfer Facility.
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NewsCorrosion feature
Saline and the erosion of port structures go hand-in-hand, so why aren''t ports doing more to protect their assets, asks Carly Fields
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Get in early and get the jump on corrosion
Operators looking to start construction of a new port or terminal should consider corrosion early on. While it''s often low on the list of priorities, a few dollars spent at the start could protect ports from serious profit erosion down the line.
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Newsterminal tractor item
Los Angeles is coming down hard on polluting terminal tugs, as Stuart Pearcey finds out
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NewsFingerprints: Pointing to the complacency trap
Biometrics might be the next big security thing, but too must reliance on one solution must be avoided, warns Stuart Pearcey
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Newsbiometrics 2
To understand what''s meant by ''biometrics'' requires a near dissection of what meaning the word''s intended to carry in any given set of circumstances, says a campaign group.
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Newsbiometrics 3
About a million US workers will be enrolled in the Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) initiative by the end of this year. The country reached the half-way point of its implementation when the Virginia Port Authority (VPA) started enrolling its workers at Hampton Roads, becoming the 78th port to do ...
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NewsThat's Orwell and good...
The predictions in George Orwell''s novel 1984 seemed far-fetched when it was published six decades ago - but seem to be edging ever-closer with the co-operation between five countries to develop the ''server-in-the-sky'' database.
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Doing it by hand in Halifax
The Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia knows its workers like the backs of their hands - and proves it by allowing (or denying) 4,000 of them access to the right work area by scanning the vascular pattern on their hands.
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NewsCrane Cabs
With cabs getting ever more sophisticated, crane workers are more akin to their office-based counterparts than ever before, as Alex Hughes discovers
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NewsPortek article
Portek chairman Larry Lam and executive director Ooi Boon Hoe examine the ''cascade effect'' in container shipping and the future implications for regional and feeder ports
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Containership cascade
· MPX (mid panamax) - 2,000 teu-3,500 teu · LPX (large panamax) - 3,500 teu-4,500 teu · PPX (post panamax) - 4,500 teu-6,000 teu · LPPX (large post panamax) - 6,000 teu-8,000 teu · SPPX ...
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NewsPlaying dirty: extra danger in any cargo
The challenge of neutralising undeclared ''dangerous'' cargoes passing through ports today is greater than ever, as Stuart Pearcey reports
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Down and dirty
Hidden within a perfectly innocent cargo, a dirty bomb is created by combining radioactive nuclear waste material and conventional explosives.
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dangerous cargo: sidebar 2
When is a hazard not a hazard? When the classification makes it expensive, if events in Kenya are any yardstick.
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Add dangerous cargo: sidebar 1
On the European side of the Atlantic, news that a shipment of weapons-ready plutonium was to be taken in an unarmed ship from Sellafield in Cumbria to France caused a media furore recently. The material has to be shipped because Sellafield had to call on its French competitor for help ...
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NewsLife cycle costs
Getting timely and accurate and data on life cycle costs for port assets can be a testing task, as Alex Hughes finds out
