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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...

Packaged hazardous cargo safety in focus

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The international chemical industry is developing a safety and quality assessment scheme for all logistics service providers engaged in the ...

New border crossing

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In July a new international road crossing opened on the RussoFinnish border at Svetogorsk, with full accreditation to Russia's North-West Cu...

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...

CargoSprinter seeks the niches

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Australia's CRT Group is blazing a new trail for rail in the country with the introduction of the CRT CargoSprinter bi-directional lightweig...

Containerisation in the dock

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The Container Sled would restore the warehousing and distribution role to ports and, it is claimed, lead to a drastic reduction in the numbe...

Vintage year for Mafi

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Mafi claims that this year has been a particularly successful one, with budgeted sales of terminal and roro tractors for the whole year actu...

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...

TOD establishes new Oz venture

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Last month Trans Ocean Distribution (TOD) inaugurated Flexible Logistics Services in Adelaide, its third joint venture flexitank operation w...

Cargo theft rife in Latin America

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Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia are currently the highest-risk countries in Latin America for cargo theft. Indeed, the problem has gr...

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...

New record for reefer output?

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Global demand for reefer containers has again held up relatively strongly in 2002, with another production record predicted for the year....

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...

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