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The UK Major Ports Group (UKMPG) responded to commitments on infrastructure development in party manifestos and announced the major ports sector’s priorities for a new government.
Robot technology – already deployed to Ultrabulk, Norden, J. Lauritzen, and Oldendorff – could prevent as much as 300 000 t of chemicals entering world’s oceans.
Flexicon’s bulk bag discharger features a steel safety cage to prevent contact with moving parts during operation and automated unloading of bulk bags.
To further extend their logistics and transportation business, Zuidnatie has recently commissioned two more mobile harbour cranes from Konecranes.
The project is for the transportation of fresh urea from granulation to bagging silos or to urea bulk storage.
In 3Q19, Northport Limited ordered an eco-efficient Konecranes Gottwald Model 6 Mobile Harbor Crane for their deep-water facility at Marsden Point, on the north island of New Zealand.
US$2 492 595 in financial assistance will be given to the Trois-Rivie`res Port Authority for the development of an outdoor storage space, multi-purpose shed and oversized equipment warehouse.
Loader crane market landscape global revenue is set to expand at 4.6% through 2026.
The launch of Europort 2019 at the Rotterdam Ahoy saw journalist Geert Maarse bring four of the leading owners in Europe’s special ship segments to grips with the key challenges facing the maritime industry.
One of Transmin’s latest machines to be delivered will be used in an iron ore export stockyard application where it will be fed by giant front-end loaders depositing 50 t bucket loads into the reclaimer hopper, after which it will be transported at 2500 tph onto a stockyard conveyor.
CM Labs Simulations training simulators, has announced a new operator training solution for mobile harbour cranes (MHCs), part of the Vortex solution suite of port equipment simulators.
A new open chute high lift bin tipper from Flexicon hydraulically raises and dumps mobile bins into a hopper that feeds an integral flexible screw conveyor operating under loss of weight control.