Shoreham adds timber handlers

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Port of Shoreham operator Sussex Port Forwarding (SPF) has added to its fleet of Hyster Fortens diesel FLTs for timber handling. Barloworld ...

Contract let for London Gateway

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Laing O’Rourke has beaten off the challenge of Costain and a Nuttall/Van Oord joint venture to win the first package of infrastructure wor...

VTG takes Graaff railcar assets

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VTG AG, one of Europe’s leading rail logistics and wagon hire companies, is acquiring all the assets of the rail car manufacturing divisio...

Investor buyout at ITT

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An investment group led by Ken Hulsey has acquired control of the Atlanta-headquartered tank container operator Intermodal Tank Transport In...

More than one way to ride tandem

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Kalmar Industries and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding have developed their own tandem concepts, but think there is a better alternative to...

Shanghai looks to Yangtze for growth

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Throughput at Shanghai, China’s largest container port, fell markedly in May and June and its 10.4% growth rate to 13.8M TEU in the first ...

Further developments with energy chains

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Germany-based Kabelschlepp has won its first order for its supported cable chain system called the Rail Cable Carrier (RCC). As previously r...

Cargotec posts more orders

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Cargotec has reported that orders received during the first half of 2008 totalled €2.168B (€1.864B in first half of 2007). In 2Q/2008, o...

DP World/Brisbane ink new lease deal

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DP World has committed to a new 40-year lease at the Port of Brisbane and announced that it is looking at investing A$250M in the Australian...

Brazil moves to reform port laws

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As surmised in last month’s WorldCargo News (p11), the relief felt by Abratec members over the Brazilian Senate’s rejection of a key ame...

DPW seals Aden deal

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Some three years after it was first agreed, DP World and the Yemen Gulf of Aden Port Corp have finalised a joint venture that will see DPW d...

Maersk big on reefers

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Maersk Line has signed an agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co in Korea for the delivery of 16 container vessels in ...

Marco Polo programme relaunch

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It is a fact without precedent in the annals of the European Commission: the Marco Polo programme, which was set up to promote and provide f...

Solar-powered logistics

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French transport and logistics company FM Logistic is to invest in what is touted as Europe's biggest single distribution centre, occupying ...

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