Automation is rapidly gaining ground in container terminals of all sizes. However, until now, one area of container handling has still required manual work, often in dangerous conditions. Stevedores ...

Bicda moved to increase charges for stuffing, ground rent, lift-on and lift-off, documentation, and port-to-off-dock transport by 30-63% from 1 September. Port users opposed the hike and refused to ...

Despite these gains, the terminal is still operating well below its design capacity as utilisation reached only 49% in October compared to its theoretical monthly capacity of 41,700 TEUs.

UAE-based AD Ports Group announced on Monday its intention to launch a cash mandatory tender offer (MTO) to acquire an ...

For the second year in a row, the Chattogram seaport may face a drop in annual container throughput due to frequent declines in monthly container handling. Port officials and users held the belief ...

T-Mining is currently working on a pilot project that will make container handling in the port of Antwerp more efficient and secure. Using blockchain technology, processes that involve several parties ...

As a result of globalization and industrialization, the foreign trade of bulk commodities materials has significantly increased which is transported via containers through airways, marine and roadways ...

A fuel-economic series of container straddle-carriers, Mobicon ECO, was launched on the South African market in December 2013 by container and materials handling equipment suppliers Big Lift Trucks ...

Container handling has gone up by 6.5 percent at Chittagong Sea Port, the country’s largest seaport in the first four months of the current fiscal year. However, the number of ships coming to the port ...

Powder-container design affects discharge rate, cleanability, and powder flow. Flow problems, such as ratholing, arching, and erratic flow, can be eliminated with appropriate container geometry.