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The Australian Customs Service has signed an A$11 mill contract to purchase two state-of-the-art X-ray container inspection systems to speed...

Fantuzzi Noell push in the UK

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The Fantuzzi group is setting up a new company to market and support its entire range of equipment in the UK, from ship-to-shore cranes to s...

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...

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...

Green light for rail sales

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The long-delayed sales of Australia's National Rail Corporation (NRC) and New South Wales' FreightCorp finally seem likely to proceed after ...

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...

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...

New spreaders from Bromma

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Following a two year project, Bromma recently began testing "Tandem Line" - to pick two loaded containers side by side - on one of Maersk Se...

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...

Stockpiles mount up

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New containers have piled up at an alarming rate in Chinese manufacturers' yards as world trade levels remain depressed....

Box standards under pressure

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In a surprise move, the British Standards Institute (BSI) has called for changes to the current ISO standards relating to the testing of fre...

Isoloader reunion

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Australia-based Isoloader has put one of its container handling straddle carriers into service on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. The un...

New box port plan for Taipei…

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Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corp, Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp and Wan Hai Lines and Denmark's Maersk Sealand are planning to form a consor...

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...

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