Still room for upward mobility

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2008 was another record year in the mobile harbour crane market (just!). This year may well be difficult, but the inherent flexibility of th...

FCT, Shushary customs link-up

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Russia’s National Container Company (NCC) has reported that its new offdock terminal at Shushary will come under the same customs office a...

Höegh into Maputo…

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Norwegian firm Höegh Autoliners has signed a deal with South Africa’s Grindrod to take a stake in Maputo Car Terminal in Mozambique. The ...

Cleaner fuel for inland shipping

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Inland shipping operators will be able to purchase clean fuel all over Europe by 2011. This is heralded as a major breakthrough, as inland s...

Gearbox mystery

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The Port of Seattle recently approved a US$350,000 vibration and oil analysis testing programme to help try and identify the cause of repeat...

…boost for container capacity

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Grindrod has revealed that Maputo container terminal is to be expanded to handle 400,000 TEU/year as part of its wider development of the Mo...

Dragados-SPL sale stalled?

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Mediobanca and Deutsche Bank, which are handling the sale of Dragados-SPL, the port services arm of Spanish construction giant ACS (see Worl...

IICL inspection courses

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The Institute of International Container Lessors (IICL) will offer both flatrack and dry freight container inspection courses in Antwerp, Be...

Automated terminal for Kaohsiung

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Kao Ming Container Terminal Corp (KMCT), a subsidiary of Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp, has secured a US$502M loan facility from 13 Taiwan...

Asciano mulls Patrick sale

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Asciano is not necessarily averse to the partial or full sale of its Patrick Container Ports and stevedoring businesses, according to analys...

Hoyer grows in Ireland

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Hoyer Ireland, part of the Hoyer Group, has taken over Irish tank container operator SCL Transport Ltd from South Coast Transport Group. Ter...

New gate system for ICTSI Subic terminal

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International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI)’s subsidiary Subic Bay International Terminal Corp (SBITC) recently rolled out a ne...

…launches new terminal tractor

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Kalmar has launched the TT616i, a new 4x2 terminal tractor aimed at lo-lo port operations in Europe. With this machine it hopes to emulate t...

New tank car rule

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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has published a final rule aimed at improving the crashworthiness of rail tank cars used to transp...

Konecranes/TMGE for Barcelona?

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Although Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has chosen ZPMC with ABB drives and controls for the quayside cranes for the new Muelle Prat containe...

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