Driver training

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Belgium’s Training Centre for Port Workers (OCHA) has purchased a Kalmar e-drive for use at a new driver training facility in Antwerp....

Pro-Fresh from Süd Chemie

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Süd Chemie Performance Packaging, best known in the container industry for its Container Dri desiccant range, is due to launch a new ethyle...

ICF adds in Sweden

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Intercontainer-Interfrigo (ICF) has set up a new five pairs/week (Monday-Friday) block train service linking the CTH Container Terminal in t...

SPARCS fly in Mexico

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Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has opted for Navis’ SPARCS graphical planning and control software to optimise container handling operation...

HK stays on top

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Although final figures for 2003 are not yet in, Hong Kong has retained its crown as the world’s busiest container port, with Singapore hol...

Dourges in operation

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The new trimodal logistic centre at Dourges, near Lille, was officially inaugurated last month, more than two years after construction start...

Hull boosts timber storage

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Associated British Ports (ABP) has embarked on two projects at the Port of Hull’s Alexandra Dock to provide additional covered and open st...

…Gdynia upgrade

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ICTSI has kicked off its US$100 mill investment programme at Gdynia’s Baltic Container Terminal (BCT) with a call for tenders for one quay...

River Dee wings it

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Wings for Airbus’s new A380 aircraft will be moved by a speciallydesigned ro-ro barge on the River Dee from the production plant at Brough...

HPH not keen on US box terminal

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Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) is unlikely to pursue an invitation to develop a container terminal at Bayonne harbour under the jurisdiction ...

…Mumbai moves on offshore plans

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Mumbai Port Trust (MPT) has shortlisted five companies - P&O Ports, Evergreen Marine Corp, CSX World Terminals, Dubai Ports Authority and La...

JNP mega-port?…

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P&O Ports (P&OP) has suggested to the Indian government that all the container terminals at Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Mumbai should be inte...

Long and short

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Noell has applied for a patent for a straddle carrier with a telescoping mechanism for raising and lowering the height of the lifting frame,...

Straddle carriers kept on a tight leash

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Maher Terminals is the biggest operator in the Port of New York/New Jersey, accounting for half the port’s 4 mill TEU annual throughput la...

Sleepless in Port Chalmers

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Port Chalmers in New Zealand has been ordered by the Environment Court to buy or soundproof up to 70 nearby homes exposed to sound pressure ...

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