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Container lessor Cronos Containers has become the first company to sign up to a new depot communications system developed specifically for t...

Intermodal awards

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The European Intermodal Association (EIA)’s intermodal awards ceremony for 2004 is scheduled to be held on November 2 at the Bella Centre ...

CANbus control for Taylor RTG

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The latest RTG from US-based Taylor Machine Works, designated RTG-9040I, incorporates solid state controllers and J1939 CANbus technology to...

Intermarine buys terminal

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US-based Intermarine LLC has, through an affiliate, purchased the Joe D Hughes terminal in Houston from Kellogg Brown & Root....

Yang Ming in Tacoma deal

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Officials from Yang Ming Marine Transport Group and the Port of Tacoma have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) acknowledging negotia...

Going going…

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As this issue was going to press, there were strong indications that Transamerica Leasing (TAL) was about to undergo a change of ownership....

Hull insurers accentuate the negative

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The boom in the container trades is showing no sign of subsiding as shipowners continue to enjoy record earnings. The liner shipping industr...

Coastal comeback on the cards?

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The long-distance east-west route between Melbourne and Fremantle is the first target of Brisbane-based Roadships Logistics Ltd (RLL), a pub...

Rail4chem sets up Dutch subsidiary

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Following the acquisition of Dutch private rail operator Shortlines, Rail4chem Eisenbahnverkehrsgesellschaft mbH, the BASF/VTG-Lehnkering/Ho...

Do crane operators know the ropes?

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Terminals upgrading to bigger, faster cranes are increasingly finding that although new cranes with a 22-wide outreach may be cheaper to pur...

Barges press charges

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Port congestion has been a big problem for barge operators calling Rotterdam and Antwerp. Delays of between 24 and 60 hours are still common...

Oz port performance under the spotlight

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Although the waterfront reform issue has long since slipped from public gaze in Australia, the Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (B...

Take out the bottlenecks

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Capacity reserves of the rail network in Europe are inadequate to sustain growth in rail-road combined transport, according to a recently pu...

Flexitanks on a roll

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The past year has been another successful one for the global flexitank industry, as more shippers of non-hazardous chemicals, oils, wine and...

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