Defence and security company Saab has deployed its first Common Operating Picture (COP): an extension of Saab’s KleinPort port management information system (PMIS) that makes ports more efficient and competitive. As of November 1st 2016, Flinders…
Governor Terry R. McAuliffe announced that The Port of Virginia will finalize the $217 million contract with Konecranes for that company to build and deliver 86 specialized cranes that will be at the center of the port’s expansion projects at…
Jonathan Crossland has been appointed as the new Business Operations Director of Landau UK, specialists in delivering installations and retrofits of equipment and systems to all leisure and commercial marine vessels. Crossland will be responsible…
An informational seminar will cover “everything ballast water”, from regulations and implementation requirements under the U.S. Coast Guard regulations to the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention. The one-day symposium, to be held by Hyde…
Engineering firm Hy-Dynamix has teamed up with Dynamic Load Monitoring (UK) Ltd (DLM) to build new wireless reporting technology into its portable container weighing solution, the Hy-Weigh. The four-corner hydraulic jack system, launched in May…
HANSA HEAVY LIFT has transported five Gottwald mobile harbor cranes, weighing a total of 1,400 metric tonnes, loading them in Denmark and Belgium and delivering them to Bulgaria and Egypt. All five cranes were lifted and stowed fully-erected on deck…
A record year for containership demolitions in 2016 has helped suppress total fleet growth close to the rate for demand. To repeat that feat the scrapping record will need to be smashed again, and again.There are multiple ways to measure the vitality of the container industry…
Joe Vorih has been appointed President of OMEGA Engineering, Inc., a pioneer in the design, manufacture, and distribution of process measurement and control products. Vorih's priority will be to transform OMEGA from the best-known direct provider…
Liebherr Maritime Cranes recently delivered a new mobile harbor crane, type LHM 550, to the Port of Helsingborg. In addition, Container Terminal St. Petersburg got two machines of the same type. All three machines are equipped with electric prime movers…
Terex Corporation today announced that Steve Filipov will assume the role of President of Terex Cranes effective immediately. Mr. Filipov will also continue with his responsibilities as President of the Terex Material Handling and Port Solutions…
Marine systems innovator Cavotec said it has won automated mooring orders from existing MoorMaster customer, the Port of Salalah in Oman, for use at two container berths. Cavotec will supply 16 MoorMaster MM400E15 units for container berths 3 and 4 at Salalah…
The National Marine Representatives Association (NMRA) has elected its officers and board of directors to govern the organization in 2016-2017. One new officer and two board members join the leadership group.Keith LaMarr of Macaroni Marketing…
A new container handling system aimed at easing the increasing problem of port congestion is being launched at a technical demonstration in Shanghai at the end of November. Designated “BLOK-BEAM”, the system enables six containers to be…
BISON, the specialist developer of portable container weighing solutions, will launch a world first system for weighing containers on trailer chassis at the Intermodal Europe trade fair in Rotterdam in mid-November. BISON C-Legs are self…
“Ottantacinque”, the concept of the latest-generation luxury mega yacht developed in partnership between Fincantieri Yachts and Pininfarina, introduced last year at the Monaco Yacht Show, won the prestigious annual award of the German Design Council in the category “Transportation”…