Big truck market bounces back

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There are signs that demand for big trucks is on the way up again, but in some markets, at least, industrial applications rather than port h...

Dragados question drags on

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The port industry in Spain is in a kind of collective suspense because of the continuing uncertainty over the takeover of Dragados-SPL, the ...

New deals for TTS

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TTS Ports Equipment AB has reported a raft of new orders for ro-ro berthing systems, in Gothenburg, CMP and Kiel. The new contracts follow o...

New MHI licensee

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Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has licensed Anupam Industries Ltd of India to produce its range of materials handling equipment...

Crane toppled at Guayaquil

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International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI)’s Contecon Guayaquil facility in Ecuador has become the latest to suffer crane damag...

Solar cell first at Ohi

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CIS (Copper, Indium, Selenium) solar cells made by Solar Frontier Ltd (formerly Showa Shell Solar Co Ltd) have been installed at Berths Nos ...

DP World secures Dakar loan

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DP World Dakar has secured a US$64M (€47.5M) loan from the African Development Bank to upgrade the container terminal at Senegal’s Dakar...

New Liebherrs for ABP

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Associated British Ports (ABP) recently took delivery of two Liebherr A944c HD Litronic telescopic mobile cranes for operation at its four H...

RFID tags help the paper trace

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Sonoco-Alcore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sonoco with 30 tube and core plants and six paper mills in Europe, is using UPM Raflatac “DogB...

…Maersk to levy out of service charge

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Maersk Line has dropped a bombshell of its own with the announcement that it is to intoduce an out of service (OOS) charge for all container...

Auckland unifies port IT

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Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL) has combined its suite of information and cargo management systems into one online product on a single platform...

Muuga box terminal CTQI-certified

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Muuga Container Terminal in Estonia has become the first terminal in the Baltic region and only the second in Europe to be certified under t...

Bombs in a box…

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The number of alternative uses for standard marine containers is many, varied and growing - from hotels and emergency medical centres to pri...

Rents push Oz depot fees up

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Rising port land rentals have forced Australian empty container parks (ECPs) to introduce an infrastructure levy, applicable to every box....

China to invest in Bangladesh

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China has agreed to finance the construction of a deepsea port in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and help set up rail and road links between the tw...

Yangtze box terminal open

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Phase 1 of Fuling Huangqi Container Terminal, the second largest in Chongqing on the upper reaches of China’s Yangtze River, has become op...

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