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...

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...

May the brake force be with you

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Two industrial brakes specialists have changed hands recently and the new set-ups could herald a still more competitive environment....

Optimism in marine insurance market

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Although the marine insurance market is likely to harden over the medium term, the degree of hardening is unlikely to be of the same order a...

LXE shapes up in Bristol

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Bristol Port Company (BPC) in the UK, working in partnership with OCN (The Open Consultancy Network), has completed installation of an LXE d...

Weight of the evidence

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The strategy of Dutch grab manufacturer Nemag provides a good insight into the changing demands of the industry. By concentrating on very bi...

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....

New reels for MHCs

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Hartmann and Konig of Germany has developed a new cable reel particularly suited to mobile harbour crane (MHC) applications....

Software options abound

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Terminal operating software is evolving at a rapid pace and there are plenty of new options, for smaller terminals in particular...

Embarking on new control system

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A new container management system has recently been installed in the Port of Oakland's Ben E Nutter container terminal, a 65-acre facility o...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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