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Energy-Efficient Cranes, Optical Scanners Reduce Emissions Footprint NORTH BALTIMORE, Ohio, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cutting-edge environmental technologies and green design will make the Northwest Ohio Terminal Facility, a new freight transit hub under construction in North Baltimore, Ohio, one of the most environmentally friendly and technologically advanced freight terminals in the country. Upon its completion in 2011, the facility will be the cornerstone of the National...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia Pacific is likely to see growth in new feeder ports and transshipment in the next few years as the economy recovers and global trade of merchandized goods increases due to the gradual reduction of trade barriers. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) "The increased demand for point-to-point service requires the use of transshipment hubs to coordinate feeder services to and from countries and ports with low-volume...

FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Valley based VeriTainer Corporation, the world leader in crane- mounted maritime container radiation scanning, has received its fourth patent on its crane- mounted scanning product, the VeriSpreader ® System. The '338 patent utilizes the twist lock signal from the real-time container monitoring system of the crane to distinguish which container is being scanned at what time and associate radiation data to a particular container. VeriTainer...

BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CSX Intermodal (CSXI) has begun two new international services that link Buffalo, N.Y., to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) and Philadelphia, Pa. The services, which started Monday, September 21, utilize the new CSXI Buffalo Terminal opened in 2008, with the support of the New York Department of Transportation and Erie County, increasing CSXI's presence in the Buffalo and Toronto markets. On-dock service destined for...

MUMBAI, India, August 5 /PRNewswire/ -- India's containerized transportation is poised for significant growth spearheaded by rising international trade, and increasing investments in ports infrastructure by the government and through public-private partnerships (PPPs). Sea traffic carries 95.0 percent of India's exports by volume and 70.0 percent in value terms. Considering the present stage of economic development, the shifting of manufacturing activities to India, privatization of...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Log-In Logistica Intermodal S.A. (BOVESPA: LOGN3) (LOG-IN) announces the following webcast: What: Log-In Logistica Intermodal S.A. Second Quarter 2009 Results When: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM ET Where: http://prnewswire.mediatown.com.br/player/?id=20 How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above. Contact: Daniela Tinoco from Log-In...

 A two-tiered scanning-protocol for inspecting all containers at international ports could be the most affordable approach to ensuring containers moving through the global transportation system are not carrying nuclear bombs, according to a paper being presented at a services special interest group meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).The authors challenge the federal scheme now in place that relies on targeting only a small number of...

By MAETZIG, Rob THREE containers washed overboard on Saturday will be removed from near the entrance to Port Taranaki before they become a hazard to shipping or the environment. The Taranaki Regional Council yesterday issued an abatement notice to shipping agent ISS-McKay, demanding the containers be located and removed. The empty containers broke free and fell off the carrier Maersk Fuji as it approached the port in heavy seas. One sank and was marked with a buoy but it is not known...

By Daniel Trotta NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - The political battle over whether U.S. port terminals can be safely run by an Arab state-owned company is a meaningless sideshow, say U.S. federal agents on the front lines of port security. Out at the wind-swept Port Newark/Port Elizabeth, the second-busiest U.S. port, one of those agents, Kevin McCabe, shakes his head over the dispute regarding Dubai Ports World's attempt to take over terminals at six major U.S. ports from Britain's...

By Jon Hurdle PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Bush administration was ordered by a U.S. federal judge on Friday to explain why it did not give New Jersey officials documents and information Washington had about a deal allowing an Arab company to take over management of a container terminal in Newark. U.S. District Court Judge Jose Linares signed an order demanding to know why the government did not carry out a full investigation into the change of ownership of the container terminal at...