Clamping up the pressure

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Although there is constant pressure from paper shippers and end users to reduce damage in the handling chain, it is difficult for stevedores...

Go Reefers going well

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The New Zealand associate of Rotterdam-based cool chain logistics specialist Go Reefers is claiming significant success in its first year of...

A long story

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Under a little known Swedish road transport exemption clause, STS, a Gothenburg-based road haulier, is operating two 40ft semi-trailer road ...

Fixing everything up

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McCarthy Engineering, Auckland, NZ makes a range of spreaders and is looking to expand its export business. It recently upgraded the capacit...

Enter the Danube Commutor?

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Ro-ro services on the Danube are not new as such, but they could become more important as further enlargement of the EU will increase pressu...

Brunswick ro-ro boost

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Georgia Port Authority (GPA)'s Port of Brunswick recorded more than 251,230 automobile and other rolling cargo units (machinery) in fiscal 2...

New Gottwald

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The Port of San Diego's new mobile harbour crane (for background see WorldCargo News, February 2002, p34) arrived in July and should be read...

T-3 obtains approval

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Germanischer Lloyd has approved the T-3 "Masterlock" fully-automatic twistlock design of German Lashing Robert Bock GmbH....

P&O Cold Logistics in US move

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P&O has announced that P&O Cold Logistics (POCL) has signed contracts to further consolidate its presence in the US through the acquisition ...

Big push for Filipino ro-ro

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A multi-billion Peso logistics programme being pushed by the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP), with technical support from Norwegia...

BIMCO in US talks

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BIMCO, the world's largest private association of shipping companies, with nearly 2,600 members in 122 countries, has arranged for meetings ...

Living happily side by side?

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Bromma has applied for a patent that would give it exclusive rights to manufacture side-by-side twinlifts....

Lafarge moves to pig out on rail

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Piggyback and the flexible Mega3 will start two years of trials with Lafarge Cement UK (ex-BCIBlue Circle Industries), following the roll-ou...

Oneseal and Savi join forces

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Savi Technology and Copenhagen-based container seal manufacturer Oneseal A/Shave announced that they will jointly develop and market a dispo...

Fast yard checking

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US-based Nascent Software and Avia Vision Technology (AVT), Hong Kong have come up with a new container yard inventory check vehicle using t...

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