Barcelona in Ningbo port deal

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After two years of negotiations, the Spanish port of Barcelona has finalised a long-awaited deal to develop a logistics centre, believed to ...

Energy opportunities

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The construction of new power generating plants in the US to meet the energy crisis continues to generate a number of project cargo and heav...

Kiwi ports cleared

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An independent report commissioned by New Zealand's Minister of Transport Mark Gosche has found that NZ ports have not been misusing monopol...

Brisbane trials Super B-Doubles

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The Port of Brisbane Corporation (PBC) and Queensland Transport have begun trials with Super B-Double trucks at the Port of Brisbane. The tr...

CargoLifter facing financial problems

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Despite the announcement of the first deal for its CL 75 balloon with Heavy Lift Canada (see last month's WorldCargo News, p2) and the signi...

P&O sale on the cards

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P&O has confirmed that it is considering the possible sale of its Contract Logistics business, which forms the main part of P&O Trans Europe...

France in breach of treaty?

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The UK's leading rail freight operator, EWS, has advised the Petitions Committee in the European Parliament that the Republic of France is i...

New FLT shock monitor

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UK-based Lamerholm Fleming has launched a new range of shock monitoring products for fork lift trucks, which, the company says, will reduce ...

Concor planning reefer services

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Following the recent launch of its new third party logistics service, the Container Corporation of India (Concor) plans to provide cold chai...

Container seals take higher profile

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Container security has again moved centre stage in the wake of the US terrorist attacks last year and a more general increase in transport r...

Signum put to the test

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Since 1999, all testing of container security seals in the UK for the purpose of HM Customs' (and EU) approval has been handled by Signum Se...

Getting a good grip

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All items in terminal operators' maintenance budgets have come under closer scrutiny. Even tyres, which previously were usually regarded pur...

SAIC in TRB deal

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A team led by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has been selected by the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) and...

First CL 75 balloon sale

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CargoLifter AG has sold its first Transport-Ballon CL 75 AirCrane to Heavy Lift Canada Inc (HLC). Delivery of the "lighter than air" transpo...

Mumbai land sale

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The Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) has sought permission from the federal government to sell land and real estate it owns in India's commercial ca...

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