Products & Services News – Page 115
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Kalmar's 4,500th straddle carrier
Kalmar has delivered its 4,500th straddle carrier to Eurogate at Bremerhaven, Germany.
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Electric RTGs for multipurpose port
Livorno port in Italy has invested in a set of six all-electric RTGs from Kalmar. Two cranes have just been delivered and the rest are expected in the summer of 2009.
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NewsA century on the Thames
An exhibition embracing everything from Polar expeditions to 1930''s Christmas parties is being opened to tell the stories behind the well-known face of the Port of London Authority.
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Specialised solution for aluminium firm
Finnish truck manufacturer Meclift is supplying two of its specialised trucks for loading aluminium bundles into 20ft and 40ft containers. Qatar Aluminium is paying ¢ 1.2m ($1.6m) for the 30 tonne variable reach trucks with customised lifting attachments.
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NewsHandling equipment "fire hazard" warning
Insurance mutual TT Club has strongly urged all operators of mobile equipment to raise awareness of the risk of hydraulic fires.
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NewsSoftware boosts Subic Bay
International Container Terminal Services Inc''s new Subic Bay container terminal has boosted its gate efficiency through new software.
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Port equipment manufacturer expands
Multinational engineering company, Linde, has opened a second 900 m² heavy truck assembly facility at its UK Merthyr Tydfil plant as part of a £ 16.5m investment program in new products and infrastructure. Giraffe House 2 will be used to finish the construction of vehicles that are capable of stacking ...
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NewsConductix-Wampfler
Conductix-Wampfler, the world''s leading supplier of mobile energy supply and data transmission systems, is offering current operators of rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) two methods of converting to electrified operation.
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NewsEuropean orders ticking over
Two Liebherr super post-panamax ship-to-shore gantry cranes are destined for the Port of Tilbury, in the UK. The cranes are scheduled for delivery during the first quarter of 2010.
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Logistics winner for Southampton
Logistics company Import Services has found a niche for storage combined with high volume retail ''pick and pack'', close to Southampton container port.
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Bintu gets better radar for less
Bintulu Port, Sarawak, East Malaysia is upgrading its VTMIS and has chosen a system from Kongsberg that will improve the port''s radar performance without upgrading radar hardware.
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Batumi edges into container management
Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT), located in Adjara, Georgia, has installed a ''stand alone'' version of the Spinnaker container management solution from Tideworks. It will be integrated with Spinnaker''s purpose-built "Star Gate" module for gate processing.
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NewsStop the bilge water bugs
BioPetroClean''s ''plug & play'' cleaning system promises to address the problems of vessels cleaning out their bilge water in port.
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Loads more for Koper
Work is now underway on a high efficiency coal loader, rated at 2,000 tonnes per hour, for Slovenian company Luka Koper, to be installed in the Port of Koper.
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NewsDoing it for themselves
The Port of Dover has had its own dredger for some time. Nigel Stokes, assistant harbour master, explains that the David Church, which carries out both suction and grab dredging, is in use hoovering up the silt that gets deposited in the harbour all year round, non-stop.
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NewsDredging - no bottom in sight
Maintaining channels and berth depths has become an operational migraine as dredgers flock to more lucrative reclamation projects instead, as Stevie Knight discovers
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PSEL adds global training arm
Port Services Engineering Ltd (PSEL) has added another facet to its competencies by acquiring a training and HSE company.
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NewsCranes go east
The very first two Liebherr rail-mounted stacking container cranes are on order for Russia.
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NewsOngoing orders for electric spreaders
Demand for Bromma''s Greenline range of all-electric spreaders showed no sign of waning in the last quarter on 2008.
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LNG power is a shore thing
Mitsui OSK Lines has successfully tested a liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuelled shore power supply system on the containership MOL Enterprise.
