Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) on Wednesday ordered eight super-post-Panamax ship-to-shore gantry cranes from China's ZPMC to be installed at the terminal Phase II facility in Port Said East, Egypt. In addition to the cranes, SCCT also ordered 20 rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs) from ZPMC, with another 10 RTGs planned at a later stage. SCCT...
New Moroccan container terminal Eurogate Tanger on Wednesday handled its first containership ahead of the start of regular liner services next month. The first box ship at the facility was the 8,488-TEU CMA CGM Otello, which discharged five disassembled Kalmar rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs). The first regular service to call at Eurogate Tanger ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday denied a request by the American Trucking Associations for an injunction to prevent the Southern California ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to proceed with their Clean Truck Program, scheduled to take effect on Oct. 1. The court found that ATA failed to establish that it will be irrepara...
The latest and fastest type of scanner has been installed by Customs at the Euromax terminal. The device has a capacity of 150 containers an hour, as opposed to 20 for the scanner used elsewhere on the Maasvlakte. The difference lies especially in the fact that the driver no longer needs to step out of the vehicle: thanks to new technology, the intensity ...
Terminal Ukrtranscontainer (UTC, part of NCC group) have finished introduction of the customized information system Conterra. The system’s developer is ROLIS (IT-company of NCC group). The system comprises all the basic process at the terminal: container handling, document flow, tariffing and financial accounting. The implementation of Conterra will a...
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday, September 24, 2008, denied a request by the American Trucking Association (ATA) for an injunction to prevent the Port's Clean Trucks Program from going into operation on October 1, 2008. The court ruled that the ATA has failed to establish that it will be irreparably injured absent an injunc...
The arrival of Alexander von Humboldt on 19 September marked the end of the 2008 cruise season at the Port of Gdansk. Since 14 May, thirty-six passenger ships visited Gdansk, bringing over thirteen thousand tourists. The cruise liners docked at the Oliwskie Quay, Captain Ziolkowski Quay and at the Westerplatte Ferry Terminal. The Baltic Sea is inc...
Reconstruction of the railway section between North Korea’s port Rajin and Russia’s station Khasan in the Primorye territory will be launched on October 3, Itar-Tass reported. In 2001, the Russian and North Korean leadership signed the Moscow declaration reflecting the sides’ agreement to create a railway transport corridor linking the North and ...
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