Sormec cranes for OSV

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Italian marine and offshore crane maker Sormec, based near Trapani in Sicily, has commissioned two new model M350/EL knuckle boom hydraulic ...

Konecranes and Terex merger

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On 11 August, Konecranes and Terex Corp announced that they are to merge to form a “leading global lifting and material handling and solu...

Taylor bulks up

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Equipment manufacturers are responding to the growing breakbulk market with more flexible machines. Taylor Machine Works recently launched a...

Getting the wind up

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Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa has commissioned Eurogate Container Terminal Bremerhaven (CTB) to handle six 2 MW onshore wind turb...

Reefers for Grangemouth

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Forth Ports Ltd is increasing the number of reefer container power supply points at Grangemouth from 126 to 432....

The march of ‘reeferisation’

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Containers are continuing to take market share away from the air cargo and specialised reefer shipping sectors, when it comes to the interna...

New strads for Port Newark

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Port Newark Container Terminal is getting the first Tier 4 Final straddle carriers in the US....

Auckland considers automation

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Ports of Auckland has come up with an innovative new concept to improve capacity by combining manned and automated straddle carriers....

The battle for Asia/ US East Coast trade

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The past two years have seen the Suez Canal handle a much larger slice of the expanding all-water Asia/US east coast trade, and this at the ...

New chapter for Suez Canal

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The opening of the expanded Suez Canal is the first stage in a major plan to double ship transits and create a maritime services, industrial...

CSCL into Moldova

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China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) has signed an agreement with Danube Logistics (DL), the Dutchbased investor and operator of Giurgiules...

Russia weathers the storm

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Despite the many problems affecting Russia’s economy, there is plenty of innovation in and around its port sector....

Sino-Polish rail venture

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Poland’s PKP Cargo Group and Zhengzhou International Hub in China’s Henan Province have set up a 50:50 joint venture for a container rai...

CIMC diesel-electric

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At the Intermodal Exhibition in Shanghai earlier this year, CIMC launched its own design of diesel-electric reefer targeted at self supporte...

Big spend on 6,000 new 40ft reefers

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Hapag-Lloyd has announced it is investing a “double digit million amount” in 6,000 new 40ft reefer containers, indicating reefer shippin...

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