Globe Tracker for Eimskip
NewsAsset tracking and data analytics specialist Globe Tracker International ApS (GTI) has announced a full scale test deployment of its Smart A...
Record year for Maputo
NewsThe port of Maputo handled a record 15 Mt of cargo last year, just 2 Mt short of official port capacity...
Smiths launches Xray scanner for cars
NewsSmiths Detection has launched a low-energy X-ray scanner to meet increasing market demand for a system best suited to detecting explosives, ...
Sick sensors hit the UK
NewsThe Sick range of LMS500 laser sensors is now available to UK port and intermodal operators through Sick UK....
High speed scanner for Dutch Customs
NewsRapiscan Systems, the security division of US-based OSI Systems Inc, has completed the installation and commissioning on behalf of Dutch Cus...
Straddles hit comeback trail
NewsThe straddle carrier market bounced back last year due to a handful of big orders for conventional machines and low height models for quay t...
Oz X-ray milestone
NewsThis month saw the Australian Customs and Border Protection authorities carry the one millionth X-ray of a container arriving in at the nati...
Smiths bags German scanner deal
NewsSmiths Detection has won an order from the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) to provide advanced high-energy X-ray systems for mobile...
New handheld rad-nuc detector launched
NewsContainer scanning specialist Smiths Detection has launched RadSeeker, a new handheld radiation detector designed to identify radiological a...
VeriRAD from VeriTainer
NewsUS-based VeriTainer Corporation is adding VeriRAD to its VeriSpreader crane-based container scanning platform....
Box scanning in the spotlight
NewsAs air freight security is being tightened further and the countdown progresses towards 2014 when the mandatory screening of marine containe...
Tackling drugs leads to scanning delays
NewsA clampdown on drug trafficking has caused major congestion problems for all of the container terminal operators in Buenos Aires....
100 per cent scanning to be dropped?
NewsIn a report to the US Department of Homeland Secur ity (DHS)’s policy branch, which is drafting a new national strategy for global supply ...
New truck mounted scanner
NewsUS-based Cargotec Port Security, Inc (CPS) has delivered its first truck-mounted radiation detector scanner, based on the same technology as...
Container scanning deadline extended
NewsAlthough mandatory screening of all US-bound containers at their foreign port of origin has been delayed two years (until 2014), the issue o...