Coping in a tough environment

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It’s a mixed picture in Spain’s main container ports, but the economic outlook is uncertain and they face strong external competition....

Box leasing ups and downs

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Although demand for leased containers held strong into 2011 following the substantial upturn of 2010, it slumped sharply from the second hal...

Widening the tractor spectrum

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RTG handling systems have been subject to increasing scrutiny from an environmental standpoint. Although RTGs are big polluters per se, thei...

Reach out for more business

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In what must be one of the biggest single reach stacker procurements so far this year, Cargotec has just reported an order from Europe Conta...

Ro-ro operators fume over sulphur rules

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Ship operators are increasingly concerned over the new European rules to limit the sulpur content in fuel as a means to reduce emissions in ...

Grabbing at new opportunities

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The market for general purpose grabs has turned down somewhat, due to reduced sand and aggregates handling because of the slowdown in the co...

Konecranes lands Global ASC deal

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Konecranes has reported an order for 20 automated stacking cranes (ASCs) from Global Terminal & Container Services,LLC in New Jersey, USA. M...

MCI in composite flooring venture

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Following five years of research and development, Maersk Container Industry (MCI) is planning to launch volume production of wood-plastic co...

Melbourne to build new box terminal

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As this issue was going to press, the Victorian Government announced that it will proceed with a A$1.2B redevelopment of Melbourne’s conta...

Ris.Ga shows fuel savings

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Control Techniques, part of Emerson Industrial Automation, has released results of fuel savings at the Port of Felixstowe achieved by its Ri...

APMT builds up for Maasvlakte II

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APM Terminals plans to have finalised key container handling equipment orders worth €500M for its new Maasvlakte II (MII) terminal in Rott...

West Oz spreads freight load

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Planning for a A$7M project to relieve intermodal freight pressure on Perth/Fremantle has begun in Western Australia....

Sassnitz expanding

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The ferry port of Sassnitz is to be expanded at a cost of €15M, in a bid to boost the local economy on the island of Rüdgen in the easter...

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