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Kite Powers Largest Vessel to Date

Kite Powers Largest Vessel to Date

As shipping lines explore ways of operating more sustainably and more efficiently, harnessing the power of the wind out at sea is attracting renewed interest.

Zero-emission Concept Terminal Launches World Tour

Zero-emission Concept Terminal Launches World Tour

Global logistics group, Wallenius Wilhelmsen (WWL), is preparing to showcase its zero-emissions Castor Green Terminal concept at a series of industry events around the world in 2011.

MoorMaster™ Secures New Bulk Handling Application

MoorMaster™ Secures New Bulk Handling Application

Cavotec’s automated mooring technology, MoorMaster™, has achieved further success with news that Australian mining company, Karara Mining, has ordered 12 MoorMaster™ units for installation at the iron ore handling facility at the Port of Geraldton in Western Australia.

Sany Port Machinery, Gottwald Port Technology Join PEMA

Sany Port Machinery, Gottwald Port Technology Join PEMA

Sany Port Machinery has become the first Chinese company to join the Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA), along with Germany-based Gottwald Port Technology, further extending the Association’s pool of global professional experience.

Cavotec RRCs See Role on Small Screen

We have written about our Radio Remote Controls (RRC) before. With such a wide range of applications, we have something new to share quite often. We have seen our RRCs control oil skimmers, an unmanned vessel, Goldhofer vehicles and heavy machinery used to clear munitions from a NATO test range in Norway.

Supersonic Car Seeks to Inspire Generation of Engineers

Supersonic Car Seeks to Inspire Generation of Engineers

We start 2011 by going supersonic with news of the BLOODHOUND supersonic car (SSC) project that hopes to inspire a new generation of engineers, innovators and inventors: with a car designed to reach speeds of 1,000 mph, or Mach 1.4, an extraordinary 240 mph faster than the existing land speed record.

Plain Sailing for Remote Controlled Unmanned Vessel

Cavotec Micro-control and unmanned surface vehicle (USV) manufacturer, Maritime Robotics, successfully held a demonstration of a radio remote controlled (RRC) unmanned vessel – Mariner USV – off the coast of Trondheim, Norway, earlier this week.

Port Hedland MoorMaster™ Update

Port Hedland MoorMaster™ Update

Commissioning of the 14 MoorMaster™ MM200B (bulk) units at Port Hedland in Western Australia is proceeding smoothly, with full hand-over expected in the coming weeks. On September 29, the 225m iron carrier Huang Shan Hai was successfully moored and held without ropes.

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