Japan box figures up

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Japan's ports handled a total of 12.678 mill TEU (mTEU) in 2000, up 9.7 per cent on the figure for 1999, according to figures published last...

Checked for safety

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A new range of fall arrest and height safety equipment, developed by Checkmate UK, was demonstrated to health and safety managers last month...

Peiner back in Noell fold

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Peiner Sarl, based in France, has been bought by Noell Crane Systems (NCS), thus re-integrating it into the Noell fold. Peiner Sarl had been...

Petersburg gets back in the frame

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Petersburg is benefitting from a revival in Russian imports and government policy. Russia's biggest port for dry cargo and imports, as the g...

HHLA goes over the top

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Hamburger Hafen und Lagerhaus AG (HHLA) has opted for fully automatic Telescopic Overheight Frames (TOFs) from Sort + Store GmbH to handle o...

Finger pointed at the SRA…

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I read with interest your article on the Blue Circle SRA [Strategic Rail Authority] award for the Babcock M3 wagon (see last month's WorldCa...

Boxes slow but Sydney up overall

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Despite a weak Australian dollar and the effects of a global downturn filtering into the Australian economy, Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC) ...

Major upgrade for Dublin

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Just a year after it was acquired by Mersey Docks & Harbour Company (MD&HC), Dublin container terminal operator Marine Terminals Ltd (MTL) h...

Cranes for India

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Visakhapatanam (Vizag) and Kandla ports in south and west India respectively are to invite bids for nine electric level-luffing cranes of 15...

Chain gang gets bigger all the time

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Cable chains (energy chains) have become a serious alternative medium for power and data transmission on cranes and other moving equipment i...

Chile set to open up cabotage?

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The Chilean government is conducting a study into opening cabotage to foreign flag shipping in order to stimulate domestic shipping and enco...

Auckland boxes up

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New Zealand's leading port, Auckland, has seen a fall in breakbulk volumes offset by a container throughput rise resulting in continuing ove...

Butterfly flies high

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Intercontainer-Interfrigo (ICF) reports that traffic on its "Butterfly" block train service between the Port of Trieste and Austria, markete...

ICTSI eyes Batangas

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International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has confirmed that it plans to build and operate a 60 hectare container terminal in Ba...

Darwin builds on

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Construction work on Stage 2 of Darwin's East Arm Port is due to start shortly following the awarding of a A$39 mill contract to Henry Walke...

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