Patrick covers up

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Melbourne-based Patrick Shipping has embarked on a novel project to convert a number of ro-ro cassettes into the equivalent of curtainside t...

If it works on paper…

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Last year Eco Glokal, the 3PL provider for Volvo Trucks, struck an innovative transport deal with Swedish paper shippers SCA Transforest and...

Grimaldi’s shortsea IPSI trials

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As reported in last month's WorldCargo News (p3), Grimaldi Naples is set to trial the new TTS trailer lashing trestle as well as the ro-ro c...

1000 TEU ro-ro plan

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A concept for a fast-loading 1000 TEU ro-ro ship is being promoted by Dip Ing Horst Hebeler, formerly technical director of Eckelmann-Euroka...

Grimaldi opts for cassettes

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Grimaldi is set to test the ro-ro cassette system and a new automatic trailer trestle between Genoa and Medcenter Container Terminal, as par...

Cassette system for livestock?

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NorthLink Orkney and Shetland Ferries Ltd, a joint venture of Caledonian MacBrayne and Royal Bank of Scotland, is on course to take over the...

Posco saves with Logister

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As previously reported, Korean Steel producer Posco is using Logister ro-ro cassette lifters for its coastal traffic carried by Korea Expres...

Lifters rise to new weights!

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Finland is the "spiritual home" of the heavy duty ro-ro cassette lifter and Finnish suppliers have furnished most of the units to system use...

Enter the cassette Crab

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A new ro-ro translifter, which is designed to move cassettes sideways in order to improve vessel utilisation has been developed by Finland-b...