2008 ‣ WorldCargo News ‣ Page 45

Forming close attachments to FLTs

News1 May 2008

The attachments industry has witnessed considerable consolidation in recent years. Some time ago, for example, US-based Cascade Corp, the in...

Tideworks live at Portroe

News1 May 2008

Dublin’s Portroe Stevedores has gone live with Tideworks’ complete suite of integrated software solutions including its Mainsail TOS, Sp...

Further expansion on the cards in Vlissingen

News1 May 2008

As reported in last month’s WorldCargo News, (p19), the first phase of Scaldia Container Terminal (SCT) in Vlissingen (Flushing) is schedu...

Navis treads a vertical path

News1 May 2008

Navis has adopted a new strategy as part of the Zebra Technology Enterprise Solutions group....

There’s no stopping crane brake developments

News1 May 2008

Brake manufacturers continue to draw on other industrial developments for better ways of producing higher brake torque....

Grabbing a slice of the bulk action

News1 May 2008

Efficiency of bulk commodity handling is facilitated by cost-effective and environment-friendly grab designs....

Picking a shade of green for crane power systems

News1 May 2008

Cable reels, conductor rails and cable chain are all vying for a slice of the growing market for mains-powered RTGs....

RATs take on the FATs to lock up the stacks

News1 May 2008

Although the introduction of fully automatic twistlocks (FATs) was plagued with difficulties, mainly in designing a mechanically unlocking s...

TSB launches SS-Planner

News1 May 2008

Korea’s Total Soft Bank (TSB) has launched Super Stowage Planner (SS-Planner), which it claims is the first ever automatic ship stowage pl...

Box ship owners prepare for life after conferences

News1 May 2008

The conference system, which has dominated the Europe-related container shipping markets for decades, is due to come to an end in October 20...

APM Terminals’ secret sauce

News1 May 2008

Maersk and others have filed to patent the “system and process” of its new terminal in Virginia....

Locate with ContainerTrac

News1 May 2008

California based ContainerTrac has developed a GPS-based position detection system to automate cell level-accurate container location notifi...

Grinding out concessions in Greece and Turkey

News1 May 2008

The port sector across the Eastern Mediterranean region is currently a “hot bed” of industrial action, as governments keen to transfer t...

Keeping the equipment rolling along

News1 May 2008

Value-for-money with tyres and wheels is more important than ever....

Amsterdam builds on containers

News1 May 2008

Container traffic has grown very quickly, but the port could be exposed by the sale of Hapag-Lloyd....

Containers boom but conventional needs attention

News1 May 2008

Antwerp is preparing the next massive container terminal complex, and steps are being taken to shore up the port’s position in the break b...

Forming close attachments to FLTs

Tideworks live at Portroe

Further expansion on the cards in Vlissingen

Navis treads a vertical path

There’s no stopping crane brake developments

Grabbing a slice of the bulk action

Picking a shade of green for crane power systems

RATs take on the FATs to lock up the stacks

TSB launches SS-Planner

Box ship owners prepare for life after conferences

APM Terminals’ secret sauce

Locate with ContainerTrac

Grinding out concessions in Greece and Turkey

Keeping the equipment rolling along

Amsterdam builds on containers

Containers boom but conventional needs attention

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Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd opt for Cape of Good Hope route for Gemini

Double Dutch acquisitions for TMA Multimodal

Universal Logistics adds Parsec

Legal victory for APM Terminals as court blocks Transnet’s tender award for DCT Pier 2

Sany delivers electric tractors to Ningbo-Zhoushan