Singapore enhances port screenings amid global mpox spike
NewsSingapore is intensifying health protocols at its ports, including temperature and visual screenings at airports and sea checkpoints, in response to the global rise in mpox cases.
Vesconite for axles
The Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), which operates a number of its tractor/trailer sets as double trailer rigs to provide 4 x 20ft/2 x 40ft capacity, uses Vesconite bushings on its Ottawa terminal tractor axles.
The loads that the tractors are hauling and the forces that their axles are exposed to are considerable, comments Vesco Plastics Singapore director Emily Heng, who acts as the distributor of Vesconite Singapore.
PSA has been a repeat customer for tractor axle bushings since 1998, when the Vesconite axle bushings replaced bronze bushings. The latter, says Vesconite Singapore, were found to be inferior to hard-wearing and lubrication-free Vesconite polymer bushings.
Heng believes that the market for Vesconite terminal tractor axle bushings could be considerable, given the number of machines employed globally.
Read this item in full
This complete item is approximately 400 words in length, and appeared in the October 2016 issue of WorldCargo News, on page 51. To access this issue download the PDF here.
You just read one of our articles for free
To continue reading, subscribe to WorldCargo News
By subscribing you will have:
- Access to all regular and exclusive content
- Discount on selected events
- Full access to the entire digital archive
- 10x per year Digital Magazine