Another Gottwald for MMD

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Port of Portsmouth, UK, operator and logistics company MMD is acquring a second, new HMK 170E Gottwald harbour mobile crane to support its g...

New rail hub for Quincy

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Columbia Rail Intermodal Systems LLC (CRIS) has been established in the US state of Washington to offer a centralised service for rail inter...

CT9 behind schedule

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Construction work on Hong Kong's Container Terminal 9 (CT9) is behind schedule because of environmental problems and the financial woes of S...

CSX into Venezuela

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CSX World Terminals (CSXWT) has signed an agreement with HL Boulton & Co to acquire 50 per cent of Terminal Port Services CA (TPS), which op...

ABP eyeing Simon?

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Associated British Ports (ABP) is reported to be interested in acquiring the Simon Group and is understood to have approached the UK's Offic...

Vancouver/Casco deal

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BCR Marine and Vancouver Port Authority (VPA) in British Columbia have signed a 21-year lease deal under which container handling capacity a...

Zhapu international

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The port of Zhapu in China's Zhejiang province, located on the northern half of Hangzhou Bay some 95 km south of Shanghai, will be opened to...

Kunz aids fast landbridge

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Austria-based crane builder Kunz was recently awarded a contract to supply two ultra-widespan container gantry cranes for the new Combispeed...

New terminal in Tema

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The Antrak Group has launched a new dedicated off-port cargo terminal facility in Tema as part of its ongoing development plans to provide c...

ABB books more ship orders

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ABB has received an order from Konecranes VLC to supply its Advant crane control systems for eight shipboard gantry cranes, which are to be ...

Gwadar port plan revived

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After postponing the project last year (see WorldCargo News November 2000, p7), the Pakistan government has revived plans to build the count...

Hub role for Kuantan?

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Rapid expansion of its industrial hinterland could see Kuantan Port become a major container facility on peninsular Malaysia's eastern seabo...

Hold up for Vizag cranes?

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A legal technicality may hold up a contract for the supply of four 20 ton capacity electric level luffing wharf cranes to the South Indian p...

SLOTT machine on song

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CSX World Terminals (CSXWT) reports that Sea-Land Orient (Tianjin) Container Terminal Co Ltd (SLOTT) has achieved a full week of crane produ...

Explosive development

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UK-based Pyroban Group has developed a new concept for the explosion protection of diesel powered lift trucks and other plant operating in Z...

Blyth in good spirit

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The UK Port of Blyth has announced a significant increase in its shortsea liner connections with an expanded container service and a new ro-...

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