Getting a lift in the US market

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Big lift truck manufacturers are adopting different strategies for the industrial and container handling sectors in the North American marke...

New rail yard modeling software

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A new “plug-and-play” software package has been developed jointly by the US Port of Tacoma and the Institute of Shipping Economics and L...

DVB Bank to sell TID portfolio

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In a surprise move, Germany’s DVB Bank AG has announced that it is pulling out of transport infrastructure financing and will sell the €...

Huntsville goes remote

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A Mi-Jack TraveLift RTG at the Port of Huntsville’s International Intermodal Centre (IIC) in Huntsville, Alabama is now operated by remote...

Mobicon for US Navy

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Australia-based Mobicon Systems has recieved an order for a 30t SWL Mobicon straddle carrier from Bath Iron Works, a General Dynamics compan...

How to grab the opportunities

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The market for rail-mounted gantry grab unloaders moves somewhat slowly. Equipment is built to last for years and the fact that ship sizes h...

New cranes arrive at BCT

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Two post-Panamax cranes from Konecranes (50t-46m outreach for 17-wide coverage) have arrived fully-erect at ICTSI’s Baltic Container Termi...

First brush with highway emission norms

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Emissions standards for diesel-powered non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) are moving inexorably closer to those applying to highway trucks and...

Gulftainer and Pak Shaheen tie up

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Gulftainer Co Ltd of Sharjah has reached agreement with the Pak Shaheen Group in Karachi to set up a joint venture company focusing on inlan...

A piece of cake for boxes

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US-based CakeBoxx LLC used this month’s Intermodal 2006 exhibition in Hamburg to launch its unique “doorless” container design (see Wo...

Reprieve for 45fts

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As anticipated in the September 2006 issue of WorldCargo News (p1), the European Commission has confirmed that standard 45ft containers will...

Yangshan second terminal opens

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The four-berth second container terminal at Shanghai’s Yangshan deepwater port opened on December 10 to mark the facility’s first annive...

…as AIG buys DPW’s US assets

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AIG Global Investment Group, an asset management arm of American insurer American International Group, has won the race to take over six US ...

GL fights off BV bid

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German classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has fought off a hostile takeover bid by its French counterpart Bureau Veritas (BV)....

Duisport buys VTS

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With a view to strengthening further its position in the general cargo sector, Duisburger Hafen AG (Dusiport) is to take over the Essen-base...

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