Reefer output holds steady

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The world’s reefer container manufacturing industry is on target to achieve another production record in 2004, although it is only up slig...

Rubb halls for NI ports

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Two Northern Ireland ports, Londonderry Port Authority and Belfast Harbour Commission, have independently specified Rubb buildings to satisf...

Geelong eyes DUKCs

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Although the Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC) has rejected a Dynamic Under Keel Clearance (DUKC) system in favour of concentrating on ch...

New SCH skills centre

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Skills South Training and Resources (STR) has been launched by Southampton Cargo Handling plc (SCH) to provide specialist training including...

GPA opens Gate 3

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The improved Gate 3 interchange complex at the Georgia Port Authority (GPA)’s Port of Savannah opened to truck traffic last month, increas...

Nigerian no on ISPS

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The Nigerian Minister of Transport, Abiye Sekibo, has stated that his government does not have to cooperate with the US authorities with reg...

Russian rail chase

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Severstaltrans, part of Russia’s largest metals producer Severstal Group and already the country’s largest private rail operator, is loo...

NZ charts way forward for rail

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When Australia’s Toll Holdings acquired a majority stake in Tranz Rail (TR) last year, it rebranded the company Toll Rail and agreed in pr...

Ukranian megaport planned

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The Ukranian Transport Ministry has made an unexpected Uturn and plumped for what it had previously labelled the “least attractive option...

Tampa Wises up

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SSA Gulf Inc Tampa Terminal, formerly Tampa Bay International Terminal (TBIT), has become the first US terminal operator to order Tideworks ...

Liverpool passes ISPS test

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The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Department has given the Port of Liverpool - the UK’s major container gateway to and from the U...

Kerala action plan

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The south Indian state of Kerala has launched a 100-day action plan to speed up the process of finalising tenders for at least three ports, ...

No hoorays for X-rays

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The Australian Customs Service (ACS), stevedores, freight forwarders and importers are at odds over the cost arising from increased security...

“Ecocombi” tests to start again

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The Dutch have authorised a new round of tests with extra long road rigs, comprising a rigid truck with drawbar (B Double type)....

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