Uncertainy creeps into the reefer market

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The global reefer trade has been posting stronger rates of growth than that for dry freight cargo over the past decade and container liner s...

Troubled times for marine insurers

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The overriding message from the 2012 annual conference of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) in mid-September was depressing...

Automation and cranes

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Terminals looking at automation now or in the future need to consider how a different style of crane operation affects crane structures....

Starring role for Control Techniques

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Control Techniques, part of Emerson Industrial Automation, has won a contract to modernise the control system on two “Starporter” STS cr...

Noell strads at Wilhelmshaven

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As reported in the January 2012 issue of WorldCargo News (p31), Terex Noell, now part of Gottwald-led Terex Port Solutions (TPS), won the Eu...

Big plans in Vietnam

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The authorities in Vietnam’s central Khanh Hoa province are looking to secure funds to build the US$4B Van Phong International Transit Por...

Bechtel learns the ROPES

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An international research initiative, which is expected to lead to new international guidelines for the design and construction of future po...

OTO enters lift truck market

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OTO SpA, part of Italian steel maker Marcegaglia, is a new entrant to the heavy lift truck market, designing, engineering and manufacturing ...

More horizontal transfer systems

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DB Schenker Rail recently demonstrated two rail/road horizontal transfer systems to customers in Wolfsburg, Germany....

Singamas sells tank factory

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Singamas Container Holdings, the world’s second largest container manufacturer, has sold its tank container manufacturing subsidiary, Fosh...

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