Friday, May 17, 2013

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Hupac volume off by 10.7% in fiscal 2013
The Swiss UIRR company carried 646,214 shipments (1.3M TEU) in the 2012-13 financial year ended 31 March...
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Hapag-Lloyd turns in better results
Hapag-Lloyd has reported improved 1Q results, with freight rates up 4.2% year on year and losses significantly reduced...
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Montreal goes post-Panamax
The Canadian Coast Guard has authorised passage of vessels up to 44m wide in the Quebec-Montreal section of the St Lawrence Navigation Channel...
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Hamburg secures new mud dump
The Port of Hamburg has secured urgent relief for the mud dumping required to maintain minimum draughts in in-port waters...
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Tanjung Priok "superport" plan
The new 400-ha North Kalibaru Terminal development project could eventually have a capacity for 13M TEU/year...
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People on the move
Latest round-up of comings and goings known to WorldCargo News in the shipping, ports and allied sectors...
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Terex hybrid strads for Freeport
Hutchison's Bahamas affiliate recently ordered 10 (Noell) hybrid straddle carriers, with options for up to 12 more...
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Virginia loads box ship to 49ft
The Port of Virginia has claimed a new record for the US East Coast by loading the MSC CHICAGO to a draught of 49 ft three inches before it departed for Jeddah via the Suez Canal...
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Four line up for Melbourne
The Port of Melbourne Corporation (PoMC) has released a shortlist of bidders for the new 1M TEU/year container terminal project at Webb Dock, which is scheduled to come on line by the end of 2016....
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New cocoa shuttle for Amsterdam
Ter Haak Intermodal (THI) and Katoen Natie have won a new 70,000 tpa cocoa beans contract from Cargill with an innovative handling and intermodal package deal that further consolidates Amsterdam's position as Europe's leading cocoa port....
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ZPMC Xiamen deal confirmed
ZPMC has confirmed that it has signed a contract with Cosco Pacific for automated container handling equipment for Phase I of the Xiamen Ocean Gate "fully-automatic terminal."...
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Kranunion sets out its stall
The privately-owned group sees new opportunities in the port sector....
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Automation coming to Indonesia
A buffer will be created at the stacking crane waterside interchange area....
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Virginia proves a soft touch
Virginia International Terminals has installed the Maxview Smart Landing system from TMEIC on eight quayside cranes at the APMT Virginia terminal....
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Weighing the pros and cons
As a matter of iron logic, if progress is to be made on mandatory, pre-shipment container weighing, port operators have to be involved....
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Liebherr launches marine crane simulators...
After further development of the model simulator it debuted at TOC CSC Europe 2011, Liebherr has now launched its new range of training simulators. Liebherr Simulations, (LiSIM)....
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Heavy lift operators still build capacity
The outlook in the heavy lift and project cargo shipping sectors remains "cautiously optimistic"....
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Energy cost of automated stacking cranes
Weight is a bigger factor than speed and acceleration in ASC energy consumption....
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