Sea Tech Panama Satellite System
NewsSwedish company has come up with a shipping concept that focuses on flexibility and direct calls....
Slowdown for reefer manufacturers
NewsAfter enjoying almost two years of record production, reefer builders have had to readjust to fewer orders and a growing equipment stockpile...
France’s Med ports make progress
NewsMarseilles-Fos is recovering lost ground, while Sète is also investing in the future....
Uncertainy creeps into the reefer market
NewsThe global reefer trade has been posting stronger rates of growth than that for dry freight cargo over the past decade and container liner s...
Towards consensus on container weight verification?
NewsCompulsory weighing prior to shipping is generally reckoned to be a “good idea,” provided always that someone else is responsible for do...
Troubled times for marine insurers
NewsThe overriding message from the 2012 annual conference of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) in mid-September was depressing...
Automation and cranes
NewsTerminals 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
NewsControl Techniques, part of Emerson Industrial Automation, has won a contract to modernise the control system on two “Starporter” STS cr...
Noell strads at Wilhelmshaven
NewsAs 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
NewsThe 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
NewsAn 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
NewsOTO 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
NewsDB Schenker Rail recently demonstrated two rail/road horizontal transfer systems to customers in Wolfsburg, Germany....
Singamas sells tank factory
NewsSingamas Container Holdings, the world’s second largest container manufacturer, has sold its tank container manufacturing subsidiary, Fosh...
Liebherr books 24-wide cranes at Southampton
NewsAssociated British Ports (ABP) has awarded a £26M contract to Liebherr to manufacture four 24-wide (65m outreach) STS cranes as part of its...
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