Indonesia opens up

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Indonesia is to open 14 land and sea transport infrastructure development projects worth Rs600 bill (US$55 mill) to domestic and internation...

Robotic improvements

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US-based Robotic Container Handling Co claims to have made significant improvements in its ocean terminal and intermodal yard machine design...

SRA awards update

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Presentations by each of the three winners of the UK Strategic Rail Authority (SRA)'s �6.1 mill prize scheme were made at the Waterfront C...

Newcastle hubbub

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The New South Wales Government has approved the A$270 mill first stage of BHP's planned multi-purpose terminal on the former Newcastle Steel...

Kalmar shuttling ahead

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Kalmar Industries formally launched its 1 on 1 "shuttle" straddle carrier at TOC in Lisbon this month (see last month's World-Cargo News, p2...

Mixed message for French waterways

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Figures released by Voies Navigables de France (VNF) show that the inland waterways are continuing to recover traffic, with the total up 6.3...

Triton makes waves

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Nico Antonucci Tarolla, the president and owner of Belotti Handling SpA, claims that his company's new generation Triton reach stacker has l...

Halcrow for CPIP

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The New York and New Jersey Comprehensive Port Improvement Plan (CPIP) Consortium has selected Halcrow to prepare a wide-ranging development...

Zarate wins award

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For the second year in succession Auto Terminal Zarate SA (ATZ), part of Murchison group in Argentina, has been named as a General Motors' p...

Positive for MacGregor

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Backed by a "big and healthy" orderbook, the MacGregor Group says the outlook for 2001 is positive, even though last year turned out to be a...

AusBulk bulks up

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The South Australian Government has named AusBulk Ltd as the developer and operator of the proposed A$90 mill deepwater bulk facility at Por...

Enter BLG AutoTec

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As a result of an "asset deal" agreement, BLG Automobile Logistics GmbH has established a new subsidiary company BLG AutoTec GmbH & Co KG, t...

…as Oz inspects all

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Australia is to inspect 100 per cent of import containers from July 1 under a regime of strengthened barrier controls designed to keep the c...

Savcor for MIT

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Finland-based Savcor One is to install its Modulaire container position information system (C-PIS) augmented with RTG auto-steering at Manza...

China backs Gwadar

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Chinese Communications Minister Wong Zhendong is visiting Pakistan this month to discuss the extent to which China can support the project t...

The balloon goes up

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Cargo Lifter AG, Berlin, has added a cargo balloon design to its cargo airship range. The CL75 AirCrane has a 61m diameter and volume of 110...

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