Svendborg belts up

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Last November Svendborg Brakes of Denmark supplied and installed five intelligent braking systems for a belt conveyor upgrade supplied, by F...

On the bridge

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In an interesting new project, Stemman Technik has provided the conductor rail for the long travel of the prototype bridge crane in Antwerp,...

Box financing – assessing the options

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The current year may be far from dynamic for the container industry as a whole, but in one area at least the situation has remained buoyant....

The brakes from Brazil

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A range of thruster disc brakes as well as Eldro thrusters and shoe brakes is available from EMH Electromecanica e Hidraulica Ltda, based in...

Only safe on paper?

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The past two years or so have seen the gradual implementation of additional safety measures for bulk carriers....

Adding that special Touch

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Touchscreen technology may help make automation more acceptable to crane drivers...

Articulating a way ahead

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The articulated tug/barge (ATB) concept, in which the pusher tug is fitted with a special coupling device, is gaining favour in North Americ...

Gulf ports strive for bigger role

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Recent oil price hikes could provide a fillip for container ports in the Gulf. Higher demand for oil-based export products, aluminium and ot...

Antwerp counts cost of its environment

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"Mrs Mop" makes the port think again but in any case the foreign operators who now control container handling do not enjoy the same level of...

Exerting more pull in the market

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Privately-owned Terberg Benschop BV in Holland is today probably the world's second largest manufacturer of terminal tractors after Kalmar; ...

More box capacity for China

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A new dry freight container production facility will come on stream next year in the northern Chinese city of Lianyungang....

Commercial venture

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GHA has been accused of subsidising the CAMT project, but maintains that the loans are on strictly commercial terms and are not linked to th...

IAS pulls the plug on European operation

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International Asset System (IAS), the developer of the InterBox Internet-based container exchange system, has decided to suspend its Europea...

Amsterdam reaps what Ceres sows

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When the Ceres container terminal project was first mooted in Amsterdam, few outside the port took it seriously....

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