A sharp drop in RTG deliveries

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The world’s RTG manufacturing industry has experienced a steep decline in orders during 2010, and production is set to fall to its lowest ...

Motorola talks mesh

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Motorola is taking steps to sharpen its focus on the port and intermodal terminal markets to help terminal operators identify and deal with ...

Venice looks offshore

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The Italian Port of Venice has launched an ambitious, €1.3B (US$1.8B) plan to build a container terminal 8 nautical miles off the mainland...

Dredging to the limits of technology

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Two of the most challenging projects ever to confront the dredging industry are on time and in-budget: the Massvlakte II reclamation and the...

Row over US truck weights

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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has objected to proposals to raise to 100,000 lbs (45.4 mt) the maximum allowable gross vehicle ...

Portek homes in on Russia

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Singapore-based Portek International Ltd has announced that its affiliate Europort International Pte Ltd (EIPL) has signed two separate Memo...

New box terminal for Port Everglades

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The Broward County Commission has awarded a 10-year cargo terminal lease to SeaFreight Agencies for a new 25-acre facility at Port Everglade...

China’s box throughput still growing

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Buoyed by strong trade growth, China’s ports are expected to handle 140M TEU this year, 20M more than suggested by forecasts by the govern...

Ngqura set for expansion

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The container terminal at the new port of Ngqura has now been operating for one year and appears to have established itself as the third mos...

Box terminals up for grabs

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The Bulgarian government is to seek private operators for new container terminals that it plans to build at the country’s two key Black Se...

Mobile options multiply

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Mobile computing solutions provider Psion Teklogix has launched Psion Omni, a highly modular mobile computing platform that the company clai...

Hübner in US move

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Johannes Hübner Giessen, the Germany-based encoder and drive technology specialist, has set up its first US sales office....

Dunkirk rededicates box terminal

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The Por t of Dunkirk has rededicated its NFTI (Nord France Terminal International) container terminal, to mark the transfer of majority owne...

GE SeaCo Considers its options

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GE SeaCo, the world’s fifth largest container lessor with a fleet of around 870,000 TEU, has announced that its board has decided to explo...

APMT launches FastNet concept

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APM Terminals (APMT) has launched a new crane concept, called FastNet, that it claims can deliver berth productivity of 450 moves per hour b...

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