While Germany is pursuing the opposite policy, the UK is phasing out coal power stations and building nuclear replacements....

Last year the UK imported record volumes of coal, but this looks set to change drastically in the face of environmental concerns and thermal...

During the final years of the 20th Century the long-established grab gantry unloader seemed doomed to become the dinosaur of bulk ship unloa...

The principle market for high capacity continuous ship unloaders now is new coal-fired power station projects, but with increasing environme...

Rising commodity prices and volumes traded are leading to port congestion and increased demurrage at a time of rapidly increasing freight ra...

Of the total of 82 harbour cranes ordered from Gottwald Port Technology in 2006, 22 (27%) were 4-rope cranes aimed principally at bulk handl...

Coal imports are boosting the UK’s major bulk ports while agribulks are improving smaller ports’ prospects....

The market for gantry grab unloaders, in common with other types of dedicated bulk ship unloading equipment for high throughput applications...

Finland-based Mantsinen Oy reports an order for a 140t capacity hydraulic mobile crane, type 140 RKM, from an undisclosed customer in the so...

High levels of commodity demand coupled with tougher environmental requirements have helped stimulate the market for grabs....

After grab handling, pneumatic ship discharge is the second oldest method of unloading free flowing and granular cargoes and as such has ben...