Products & Services News – Page 98
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Tideworks TOS to service APL
Tideworks is to implement its TOS solutions at APL’s new intermodal facility in Joliet, Illinois. Scheduled to go live in the fourth quarter of 2011, the project will serve APL’s customers in Chicago and the surrounding areas, and will eventually replace its existing Chicago container facility.
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Fender choices driven by price
Price-driven fender purchases could “increase costs and reduce the efficiency of ports over the longer-term”, according to research from Trelleborg Marine Systems.
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NewsChallenging a communication culture
Ineffective communication could be losing port and terminal operations significant sums of hard money. Or, as Captain John Wright of WrightWay Training told Port Strategy, “One plus one plus one doesn’t always equal three.”
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NewsClean fuel will save lives in port areas
A research paper published this week showed that air pollution near ports and next to shipping lanes drops dramatically when vessels shift to cleaner, low-sulphur fuels.
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New AGVs replace first-generation vehicles
Gottwald is supplying 22 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to Europe Container Terminals (ECT) in Rotterdam, a long-term customer.
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TOS for Polish inland facility
PCC Intermodal is to start to deploy an Autostore Terminal Operating System (TOS) at its Kutno inland terminal in central Poland, a key national and international railroad nexus.
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NewsShiploader to the rescue
Since a March storm destroyed the Store Norske Spitsbergen Grubekompani (SNSG) aged loading equipment, the company has been trying to replace it – but its been left with a very tight timeframe.
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NewsCreating something from nothing
One benefit of alliances that can pay dividends for end users is the development of solutions that did not previously exist.
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NewsA happy union
Carly Fields asks whether alliances and partnerships really do deliver on their promises
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NewsPortunus refurbishment gains
DP World Aden has appointed Portunus to undertake refurbishment of four RTG cranes.
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Ohio's high tech intermodal terminal
CSX Intermodal Terminals has implemented a terminal operating system (TOS) at its new Northwest Ohio intermodal terminal (NWOH) that should lever extra value from its cutting-edge approach.
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NewsFrom pie in the sky to rubber on the road
The world''s first hydrogen-fuel Class 8 truck is being put to the test in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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Free emissions advice
Materials handling supplier Barloworld is offering free advice to UK ports and terminals covering the new Tier 4i/Stage IIIB emission regulations that affect equipment such as reachstackers, empty container handlers and high capacity forklift trucks.
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NewsA matter of visibility
At present, when people talk about ‘supply chain visibility’ they tend to mean the container itself, and not the cargo within. However, a new project aims to take the lid off this opacity.
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Chassis control system in New Jersey
Maher Terminals in Elizabeth, NJ, has implemented eModal’s Chassis Control solution. The system was also inaugurated at two off-dock chassis depots at the same time. Chassis Control offers terminal operators and chassis providers, such as TRAC Intermodal, enhanced control and management of chassis access at key operational facilities.
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NewsGlobalisation: not always a saving grace
It seems the sector is, to an extent, the victim of its own success, says Peter Sands of BIMCO in the organisation’s recent Shipping Markets Overview.
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Over the airwaves
Colin Eade of Sepura, designer and supplier of TETRA portable and mobile radios, believes that security, efficiency and health and safety should be primary concerns for ports.
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NewsLoud and clear
Resilience is a must-have trait for port-wide wi-fi and radio communications infrastructure, as John Bensalhia finds out
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NewsCavotec maintains steady growth
A "continued resurgence in investment in port infrastructure" has prompted a flurry of orders for Cavotec cable reels, shore-to-ship power systems, MoorMaster automated mooring units and Panzerbelt cable protection systems, according to the company.
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NewsIts not the software, its the attitude
It may be more of a surprise to some than others: a recent survey on Port Community Systems showed that the hard part of the necessary development isn’t the software aspect at all, it’s the people.
