Technical Papers

Optimal performance of computer equipment is essential for efficient port operations. From selecting equipment that can stand up to challenging port environments, to ensuring equipment is serviced regularly and runs up-to-date software, computers are a priority for any port environment.

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In a highly volatile business environment, Liebherr’s mobile harbour crane (MHC) division delivered satisfactory operational performance. In 2009, deliveries amounted to 74 mobile harbour cranes, 27 per cent less than during the same period the previous year. In comparison, the total MHC market, including all manufacturers, dropped by approximately 40 per cent.

In June 2008, ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer) successfully implemented an ABP Group wide Marine Safety and Management System using research carried out in the European Project ‘Maritime Navigation and Information Services’ (MarNIS). The focus of the new system is the implementation of a ‘Port Assessment Toolkit’ with adapted services to suit the needs of the ABP Port Group.

n the world of ship assist and tanker escort operations, a myriad of challenges and endless ideas about how to address those challenges are commonplace in harbours around the globe. From escorting a large tanker carrying environmentally sensitive cargoes to assisting other vessels within the harbour, it is crucial that the company or harbour master contracted to handle these operations have a full understanding of the task at hand and the best way to successfully address the needs of the project with the proper technology.

Eyes are needed everywhere, and in an age where security threats have become more prevalent, surveillance systems can offer a reduced strain on manning at a time when regulatory compliance and general security can place an increased burden on personnel.

Snag loads on container cranes happen fast. Your snag load protection must be faster to prevent damage; easy to reset to save time and as green as possible to avoid spills.

To protect nations against weapons of mass destruction, governments have been active in implementing programmes to increase container handling security. Efforts such as the Container Security Initiative, the Secure Freight Initiative, and the SAFE Ports Act represent the leading edge of legislation aimed at eventually screening 100 per cent of high-risk containers loaded in foreign ports for nuclear materials and other potential weapons.

Over the last 50 years simulation technology has found its way from technical applications to logistics. Due to the demands of high productivity and automation, as well as increasing vessel sizes, special computer systems for simulation and emulation have been developed for container terminals. The modern approach to the whole planning, developing and installation process is accompanied by simulation

PEMA provides a forum and a public voice for the global port equipment sector, reflecting the industry’s critical role in enabling safe, secure, sustainable and productive ports; and thereby actively supporting international maritime trade.

Jebel Ali Port is DP World’s flagship port, the world’s largest manmade harbour and the largest container port between Rotterdam and Singapore. Located 35 kilometres to the southwest of Dubai, the Port is situated at the gateway between the East and the West, and strategically positioned to be a natural hub for the global shipping industry that provides access to a market of 1.5 billion people.

With Norway’s background as a major oil producer and the State Pollution Control Author ity’s very str ict regulatory framework both for preventing oil spills and respond to oil spills AllMaritim and its two manufacturers, NOFI Tromsø and NOREN Bergen, have been able to develop and test in real life conditions oil spill response equipment that is well recognised in the international market.