Drewry’s Power dismisses forwarding model
NewsCEO of Drewry Shipping Consultants says liner shipping companies’ trying to cut in on forwarding and logistics to improve their long-term ...
Setting out on the RTG automation road
NewsKalmar has its first customer for RTG automation, with a phased introduction at Dublin Ferryport....
The more, the merrier?
NewsCompetition in the STS crane market looks set to increase in the coming years....
VICT on the road to 30 MPH
NewsThe new fully automated Victoria International Container Terminal is another step forward in the industry’s journey with terminal automati...
Dancing to a Latin American beat
NewsEconomic improvement, increasing trade and growing investor confidence has generated renewed interest in supporting infrastructure, especial...
Zeeland/Ghent merger?
NewsAfter lengthy talks, Zeeland Seaports (ZSP - Vlissingen and Terneuzen) and the Port of Ghent have told their owners (Zeeland Province and lo...
LNG-powered container ship
NewsBureau Veritas has announced that it is to class the first container ship to be converted to run on LNG fuel, a 1,036 TEU ship, WES AMELIE, ...
Upheavals in Portugal
NewsA new study entitled Terminais Portuários e Infra-estruturas Logísticas em Portugal by the Studies Centre for Economy and Management at th...
…terminals still too slow
NewsAt the same conference, a panel debate on industry trends concluded that container terminal automation had more to do with cutting labour co...
Nordic port consultants
NewsThree port consultants in the Nordic region have started to cooperate to build a consulting network. Together, Jari Pirhonen (ex-Kalmar) of ...
India’s cluster plan
NewsIndia will use 122 of its major ports as bases for 29 port-based coastal industrial centres, the government has said, in a move intended to ...
Raising issues for STS cranes
NewsLiftech is helping terminals accommodate bigger cranes on existing infrastructure....
Cranes bound for La Spezia
NewsTwo 62m outreach (23wide deck stow) STS cranes designed by Italy’s OMGMGM in close collaboration with Liftech Consultants of Oakland, Cali...
Liftech to China
NewsLiftech Consultants has announced it will open Liftech Shanghai Co Ltd in December 2014. While its head office will remain in Oakland, Calif...
Konecranes launches RTG automation
NewsKonecranes launched an “Automated RTG System” at the TOC Container Supply Chain conference in Rotterdam last month....