All Products & Services articles – Page 83

  • Port Strategy: Container lashing standards need to be unified. Credit: Danny Cornelissen
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    Report calls for 'actual' weight of container on documentation

    2010-02-08T12:24:00Z

    The actual weight of a container should be specified on documentation rather than its declared weight, so that a ship''s stowage plan can have more integrity, a new report has recommended.

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    Testing times

    2010-02-05T12:24:00Z

    Kalmar has begun testing terminal tractors with a custom-built dynamometer at its Tampere facility in Finland.

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    Loaders get magnetic boost

    2010-02-03T12:24:00Z

    The Russian Port of Visotskiy has recently installed two more Lancaster ship loaders to double the number at the port.

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    Mascus speaks up

    2010-01-13T12:24:00Z

    Electronic heavy machinery online marketplace Mascus has added three new languages to its platform: Korean, Japanese and Chinese.

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    Bromma secures Georgia order

    2010-01-13T12:24:00Z

    Stockholm-based Bromma has won an order from Georgia Port Authority for 25 rubber-tyred gantry yard crane spreaders, with delivery set for mid-2010.

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    Gothenburg goes live

    2010-01-12T12:24:00Z

    The port of Gothenburg''s new CATOS terminal management system has, after just a week of the system roll-out, allowed Gothenburg to hit 137 moves per hour at peak.

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    Cavotec reels in DP world

    2010-01-08T16:51:00Z

    DP World has returned to cable reel specialist Cavotec to equip its new container terminal at Jebel Ali Port.

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    Chip off the old block

    2010-01-06T12:24:00Z

    Telestack has designed and manufactured a customised Hopper feeder and Radial Telescopic ship-loader to load woodchips to handymax and panamax ships in Africa.

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    Cargotec partners ST Kinetics

    2009-12-30T12:24:00Z

    Cargotec is to work with Singapore Technologies Kinetics (ST Kinetics) to develop and launch hydraulic hybrid technology in terminal tractors as an option for Kalmar terminal tractors.

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    Safer UK ports

    2009-12-23T12:24:00Z

    Thousands of workers at UK ports are set to benefit from higher safety standards as with the recent launch of an updated Port Marine Safety Code.

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    Shiploader for narrow quay work in Peru

    2009-12-16T12:24:00Z

    A new flexible ''narrow quay'' installation to load copper and gold ores for the Gold Fields La Cima facility at the Port of Salaverry in Peru has been commissioned from B&W Mechanical Handling.

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    Global Port Tracker unveiled

    2009-12-09T12:24:00Z

    Hackett Associates has launched a Global Port Tracker report to replace IHS Global Insight''s Port Tracker, which ceases publication at the end of the year.

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    Another two ports for Tideworks

    2009-12-07T12:24:00Z

    Tideworks has secured orders from two ports in the Americas for its software systems.

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    Crane study shakes things up

    2009-12-03T12:24:00Z

    Concerns around the vulnerability of container cranes to even moderate earthquakes has triggered a US-based seismic performance study which is due to take place this week.

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    Green clean for containers

    2009-12-02T12:24:00Z

    A new benchmark for cleaning shipping containers in Australia has been set by AWH Logistics at North Fremantle.

  • Cromarty Firth now benefits from AC & CCTV that is specified to be as easily supported as possible.
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    Lowering the security bar

    2009-11-18T14:33:00Z

    A large, integrated access control and CCTV system with a difference has been installed at a major Scottish port.

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    Konecranes supplies Damietta

    2009-11-13T12:24:00Z

    Konecranes has won an order to supply Egypt''s Port of Damietta with six rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes and two empty container reachstackers.

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    Crane safety "should not be optional"

    2009-11-11T12:24:00Z

    A project to establish a minimum safety specification for quayside container cranes is being launched by TT Club, the Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA) and ICHCA International - and the message is that "critical safety features should be standard and not optional."

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    Cargotec delivers

    2009-11-11T12:24:00Z

    Cargotec has delivered 20 Kalmar terminal tractors to the port of Rades in Tunisia, and has signed a deal to refurbish 13 straddle carriers later this year.

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    Cranes for new terminal at Dahej

    2009-11-09T12:24:00Z

    Adani Petronet, has put in an order for two new Gottwald cranes for bulk handling. The new multi-purpose terminal for solid cargo is located in Dahej port, Gujarat, on the west coast of India. The terminal is a joint venture between Petronet LNG Ltd and Mundra Port & Special Economic ...