It just keeps rolling along

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Dutch special trailer designer and builder Buiscar BV reports that 2000 was its best ever year in terms of turnover and profitability....

ICF goes up in the air

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Intercontainer-Interfrigo (ICF) is launching a new four pairs/week shuttle service between Bettembourg and Milan, catering mainly for swap b...

Drive to engineered solutions

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Crane drive control and management systems are increasingly sophisticated, but they do not necessarily of themselves lead to increases in cr...

Mocont finds the elusive reach stacker

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A new real-time container location system using D-GPS and inertial navigation is said to be effective even with reach stackers. The "Mocont"...

Joint venture for cryogenic reefer

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Singapore-based Airocean Group Ltd, one of Asia's leading integrated logistics service providers, and Advantage Technologies LLC of the USA ...

QCRC moves into top gear

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CIMC has carried out an extensive upgrading programme over the past two years at its reefer plant in Qingdao. The facility is now in full sc...

Air/sea option for Australian fruit?

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A landmark export trial of stone fruit by air and sea to the UK has revealed the potential for Australian horticultural exports to expand to...

If it ain’t broke, why fix it?

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A BSI proposal for changes to current ISO standards with regard to the testing of containers has brought a stinging response from one indust...

Make the most of mobile forces

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As noted in last month's World-Cargo News (p18), the Mobiler horizontal transfer system (for original report see WorldCargo News, November 1...

Pursuing a private course in Africa

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A high-level conference in London last month underlined the need for private sector involvement in the development of Africa's transport inf...

SATI sets the pace

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A good example of the way that private investment is being used to upgrade transport infrastructure in Africa can be found in newly-formed S...

Columbus boosts tank market share

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While the rest of the tank container industry suffered in 2000, caught up in the current deep-rooted market slump, Columbus Stainless increa...

Sinport Airport formed

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CIAS Sinport Airport Services SpA (CSAS) has been formed in Genoa as a vehicle to bid for upcoming concessions in the Italian airports indus...

Langar rolls on

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UK-based Langar Engineering Ltd is working on an order for 100 80-tonne 40ft rolltrailers for ACL - its biggest single order for port equipm...

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