New cable trolleys from Wampfler

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Three new series of festoon cable trolleys for ship-to-shore container cranes and high capacity process cranes have been developed by German...

Hirschmann for Doosan

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Germany-based Hirschmann Automation and Control GmbH has won an order worth €70,000 from Doosan Heavy Industries to supply overload protec...

Cobelfret in HIP replacement

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Having taken over Ferryways two months ago (see WorldCargo News June 2007, p1), Cobelfret has maintained its Haven call from Ostend but repl...

Four listed for Khalifa

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Four consortia have been shortlisted for the first phase construction package for the Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone in the United Arab Em...

MacGregor scoops ship crane orders

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Cargotec’s MacGregor business unit has received an order worth €27M for 88 shipboard cranes from China’s Yangzijiang shipyard. The cra...

TICTS short of space

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Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS) has indicated that it will run out of container capacity at Dar Es Salaam by 2010...

Big Kalmar RTG order

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Tangier Medgate SA, the joint venture of Contship Italia (Eurogate group) MSC, CMA CGM and Comanav selected to run the second new container ...

SITV work under way

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A groundbreaking ceremony was held last month to mark the start of construction of Saigon International Terminals Vietnam (SITV), a joint ve...

KE grabs an opportunity

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Kirow Leipzig, which owns the Kranbau Eberswalde (KE) and Kocks crane marques, recently relocated a Kocks type DWK slewing crane from the El...

Prague-Shanghai overland service

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Maersk Line’s wholly-owned rail intermodal operator European Rail Shuttle (ERS) has started the operational phase of a transcontinental se...

Silport passes 1 mt

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Last month Estonian port operator Silport (Port of Sillamäe) broke through the 1 mt throughput barrier for 2007. Oil products and liquid pe...

Box makers boom

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Interim figures from the world’s two largest container manufacturers show that container demand held up strongly throughout the first and ...

South Africa looks to short sea mode

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South Africa’s Minister of Transport, Jeff Radebe, has revealed that a feasibility study into greater use of short sea shipping in the cou...

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