China appears intent on asserting its buying power ahead of current contract iron ore pricing negotiations by threatening to curb iron ore i...

A scandal engulfing monopoly Australian grain exporter AWB Ltd has encouraged potential rivals to redouble efforts to break the company’s ...

The Port of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which handled a considerable amount of diverted shipping after hurricane Katrina roared through the Port...

Liebherr Werk-Nenzing reports that a floating cargo crane type CBG 25/30, mounted on an off-centre arm on the ATLAS-1 crane barge deployed b...

The Western Australian government has approved funding for a new, dedicated iron ore berth at Geraldton to service up to seven mining projec...

The English south coast Port of Shoreham has placed a £1M order for a Sennebogen hydraulic mobile crane....

Germany-based ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group has acquired the conveyor belt operations of the Danish company Roulunds Tech A/S, subject to th...

With port facilities being expanded and new facilities planned or under construction, mainly to cater for projected coal import increases, t...

The long term trend to higher energy costs is forcing aluminium producers to take a close look at where they site future plants. Aluminium s...

As commodity exports surge, fuelled mainly by Chinese growth, the pressure has increased on export ports as miners ramp up capacity to meet ...

Mooring Systems Ltd (MSL) of New Zealand and its worldwide licensee Cavotec Group Holdings have successfully implemented vacuum mooring tech...

In recent years the problem of invasive alien species arising from ships’ ballast water discharges has risen higher up the marine environm...

Stackers, reclaimers and stacker/ reclaimers are the only major plant fitted at all key interfaces in the mine to end user chain - being req...

Associated British Ports (ABP) has developed its coal handling facilities in the Humber region. It successfully tested the water with the co...

Essentially a grab is a puppet. It is a mechanical device supported and controlled by an operator through the ropes. The basic design has no...