Another Soton crane collapse

News

DP World Southampton has acknowledged concerns over the safety of its 1992/3-built Morris cranes after another of the jumboised cranes was i...

Heavy lift shipping club formed

News

A number of ocean carriers involved with the international transport of project and heavy lift cargos met yesterday (26 May) in Antwerp, pri...

Dunkirk-Almeria reefer trial

News
A new shortsea shipping service for frozen fish exports from Southern Spain to Northern Europe is being tested...

DP World chemical spill fine

News
A chemical spill at Melbourne’s West Swanson Dock container terminal in 2007 has seen DP World Australia convicted under Victoria’s Envi...

Driving the terminal tractor fleet

News
Allison Transmission’s latest 3500 series transmission is claimed to offer improved fuel savings through customised shift calibration....

Insurers raising the stakes in downturn

News
The shipping industry is in the middle of the biggest global recession seen in the past 60 years. Shipowners and charterers went from boom t...

New US vertical tandem lift rule

News
The US Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)’s final ruling allowing vertical tandem lifts (VTLs) of em...

Big potential at Kandla

News
A study by a joint Indian-Japanese working group following a report by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has identified Indi...

TWIC running well in Tacoma

News
Terminals and port-operated facilities at the US west coast port of Tacoma report a smooth implementation of the Transportation Worker Ident...

Key RDS order for Cargotec

News
US-based Cargotec Port Security, Inc (CPS), part of Cargotec Corporation, has won what is believed to be the first commercial order for a sp...

Rivalta Scrivia boost

News
An Italian infrastructure investment fund, Fondi Italiani per le Infrastrutture (F2i), is to invest up to €60M in the expansion of IRS SpA...

Twistlock sensing system launched

News
France-based Lemantec International has provided more information on its patented LASSTec (load and strain surveillance technology) load sen...

Newsletter signup

Signup for our newsletter