Integrated lashing

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Norway-based Integrated Container Lashing (ICL) has developed a new automatic (un)locking system for containers that dispenses with the need...

Pelindo II row

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Indonesian state-owned port operators Pelindo II President director Abdullah Syaifuddin stirred up an old controversy earlier this month whe...

Prat decided

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Hutchinson Port Holdings and Grupo Mestre, owner of one of Barcelona’s second biggest container terminal, Terminal de Catalunya (TerCat) h...

Carolinas’ ports think big

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CH2M Hill has been selected by North Carolina State Ports Authority (NCSPA) to manage the development process of the proposed North Carolina...

Major drugs bust in India

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India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has seized 200 kg of cocaine with a street value of Rs1B (US$22M), hidden inside a container that c...

Gennevilliers to double

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The Port of Paris (PAP) has announced that capacity of the Gennevilliers container terminal is to be doubled, to 400,000 TEU/ year....

Long trucks

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I refer to your item “Longer vehicles turned down” in the February 2006 edition of WorldCargo News (p15) that followed the article you p...

Gottwald hits 1000 mark…

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The 1000th harbour mobile crane to be built by Gottwald in the 50 years since it introduced them was commissioned last month at PD Teesport...

LXE for PSA-HNN Deurganckdok

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PSA-HNN has contracted LXE to provide a turnkey wireless network and rugged mobile computers for its Deurganckdok Terminal in Antwerp....

Longer combi-trains?

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Jean-Claude Brunier, president of France’s umbrella lobby group for combined transport, GNTC, is calling for longer intermodal trains up t...

Cold ironing alternative

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The Port of Long Beach (POLB) is reviewing an application by Metropolitan Stevedoring Company to test a dockside vessel emissions treatment ...

Vulcan active down under

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It is understood that Linde Heavy Truck Division (Linde HTD) has reached a badge-engineering agreement with MLA Holdings in Australia, under...

Jorma Makinen

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We regret to report the death, at 56, of Jorma Mäkinen, a driving force behind the development of the translifter cassette system....

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