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...

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....

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....

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...

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...

Longer trailers make headway

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Articulated rigs with an loa of 17.9m using 14.92m long trailers, such as the Kögel Euro Trailer (formerly known as BigMAXX), are to be all...

Tough times for box business

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The container manufacturing and leasing industries are heading for tough times. Singamas recently released its H1 2015 financial results, an...

IANA reports strong Q2

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The Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) reported strong growth in volumes in its Q2 Intermodal Market Trends and Statistics repor...

Suxxesion makes the switch

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Dutch company Ceti Suxxesion BV is meeting a need in the breakbulk market for attachments that can be easily used with standard container ha...

St Louis eyes transloading

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The Leadership Council of Southwestern Illinois recently commissioned TranSystems and GKSF Global Research to conduct a study to help it ide...

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....

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