Nor even the ranks of Lombardy…

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In recent weeks a raft of new intermodal rail services has been started up in Italy by various operators: MarCo (MilanBasel-Mannheim); ICF (...

New cranes for PPC

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Hutchison's Panama Ports Company SA (PPC) has awarded contract for five new quayside gantry cranes for its Port of Balboa container terminal...

Are Tranz Rail’s days numbered?

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Speculation is mounting that Tranz Rail (TR)'s 4000 km rail network will be renationalised. In the 1990s New Zealand (NZ) was hailed as a mo...

Ocean sheds its Northern Lights

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Ocean Shipping Consultants Ltd (OSC)'s latest long-range, container traffic forecasts for northern Europe, current until March-April next ye...

Speeding chemical supply chains

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Delegates to the 29th European Petrochemical Association (EPCA) Logistics Meeting in Monaco last month heard that the chemical industry supp...

Montreal tracks on

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Most of the facility enhancement and expansion work at the Port of Montreal (see WorldCargo News, September 2002, p21) is due for completion...

The future has already begun

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Southern California is well known for its stringent environmental regulations and they finally caught up with the new 30ha container termina...

Strikes provide grim warning

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There has been chaos on the US west coast as a result of the recent stoppage by longshoremen, which paralysed all 29 ports along the seaboar...

Shipping portals start to mature

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In What's Wrong With the World, G K Chesterton wrote, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult...

Weyenberg reaches out

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The Weyenberg Group is looking for further expansion of its presence in Asia and has appointed Brian Swan, previously technical director of ...

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