TOPS for Lomé

FEPORT and PEMA have agreed to start work on standards that could include terminal automation, but not everyone agrees on what to standardise, and where to start, writes Paul Avery

Brazil’s financial watchdog, the Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) is pushing to scrap the extension of Grupo Libra Terminais’ concession contracts in Santos, citing the “illegal renewal” in 2016.

TPKS uses the TOPX TOS from Realtime Business Solutions (RBS). For the project, RBS developed a new automation module for ARTGs designed to operate in combination with manual RTGs and reach stackers at one terminal.

Cosco Shipping Ports and CMA Terminals Holding have signed a MoU to seek cooperation in ports worldwide and preference will be given to ports that the Ocean Alliance calls

Realtime Business Solutions (RBS) is planning to offer its complete TOPS TOS as a managed service.

French prosecutors are investigating port terminal concessions won by Bolloré Group in Lomé in Togo and Conakry in Guinea in 2010 and 2011 respectively for Bolloré Africa Logistics