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Planning for the New Panamax age

News1 Sep 2009

West coast ports have identified the need to address intermodal costs while the challenge in the East and Gulf is accommodating bigger vesse...

News1 Aug 2009

The Virginia Port Authority (VPA) has received two more proposals from private companies to operate its marine terminals. Earlier this year ...

News1 Apr 2009

Chicago-based industrial real estate developer CenterPoint Properties Trust’s unsolicited bid to purchase the Virginia Port Authority’s ...

News1 Jan 2009

Straddle carrier users have more choice of manufacturers and drive systems than ever before....

News19 Jul 2008

The Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia is struggling to retain its existing container business and its statistics for the first six months of the ...

News1 Jan 2008

Under pressure to “go green,” more RTG operators are considering mains power....

News1 Oct 2007

The Virginia Port Authority (VPA) has announced its support for USEPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership with the launch of a pilot programm...

News1 Oct 2007

An anti-dumping suit in the US during a sustained period of global shortages indicates that some strange economics are at work in the indust...

News1 Sep 2007

APM Terminals’ newest container terminal facility is widely seen as the testing ground for automation in North America....

News1 May 2007

Virginia International Terminals (VIT) is having some success with a “virtual container yard” system set up to reduce truck traffic arou...

News1 Jan 2007

US East Coast ports have big expansion plans that include low height straddle carriers, twin 40ft container cranes and RMGs....

News1 Jun 2006

Germany-based Consens Transport Systems GmbH has won an order for 20 1-over-1 Conspeeds, with hydrostatic drive, from APM Terminals (APMT) f...

News1 Jan 2006

An unusual number of accidents has been reported over the last few weeks, one of which resulted in the tragic death of a longshoreman in Van...

News1 Apr 2005

Sattel of Australia, part of P&O Ports, has signed new contracts to install its Container Terminal Automation System (CTAS) products at seve...

News1 Jul 2004

A crane is a long-term investment and terminal operators want the comfort of “future proofing.” Cranes of up to 65 tonne SWL, 22-wide ou...