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Hammar wins patent infringement case
Self-loading trailer builder Hammar Maskin AB has reported that New Zealand’s Court of Ap- peal in Christchurch has judged that its patent on a new sideloader stabiliser leg design was infringed by Steelbro Ltd of New Zealand. “The unanimous decision of
the court upholds the patent that Mr Hammar took out on his de- velopment of the new stabiliser legs introduced on our Hammar 195 sideloader in 1998,” said Fred Sandberg, managing director of Hammar New Zealand. According to Hammar, the key
to the success of the Hammar 195 is that the stabiliser leg is folded in a negative inclination beyond the horizontal position, which saves space. When deployed, there- fore, it reaches out further, signifi- cantly increasing stability. With the ends of the support sleeves being bevelled there is a
Fred Sandberg, managing director of Hammar New Zealand
300mm gain in reach when the stabiliser is extended to the verti- cal, and with the stabiliser fully ex- tended the 300mm increases the stability of the vehicle during load and unloading, compared to pre- vious designs.
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When Steelbro introduced its
SB361 and SB 401 sidelifters, says Hammar, it used the same design as Hammar’s patent. Hammar took Steelbro to the High Court in 2008 claiming, among other things, pat- ent infringement. The verdict was appealed. The Appeal Court judges also unanimously dismissed a cross- appeal by Steelbro and awarded costs to Hammar. Steelbro declined to comment on the court’s decision.
Tampa box terminal enlarged
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The container terminal at the Port of Tampa has been expanded from 25 to 40 acres, with additional phases planned that will increase it to 160 acres on adjacent land owned by the Tampa Port Author- ity (TPA). The terminal now has 2100ft of berth, three ship-to- shore gantry cranes and a 100t
mobile harbour crane, on a 43ft deep channel. The next phase is under way
and includes a further extension of the crane rails and lengthening the berth to 2800ft, to be com- pleted this summer. Together with terminal operator Ports America, TPA has plans to quadruple the
size of the terminal to over 160 acres over the next several years. This planned build-out will be
developed as market demand grows, ultimately providing the ca- pacity to handle upwards of 1M TEU/year. A primary driver of this invest- ment, says TPA, is to position the
Terminal operating system sup- plier RBS is offering a statistical, analysis and data mining visibility tool that can run as a middleware layer, and be interfaced with any TOS, as a freeware application. With RBS’s Terminal View, ter-
minal management can see an over- view of the entire terminal, berth performance and equipment per- formance by type, encompassing moves per hour and idle time. Yard monitoring tools include road truck handling performance and yard activity by block. There are several “visibility” ap-
plications on the market, but RBS is heading into new territory by of-
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Freeware TOS tool
fering Terminal View as freeware, which managing director Harry Nguyen sees as a way to introduce RBS to potential new customers. Terminal View can be run from
any browser through the Internet, allowing management to monitor performance from any location. The application itself can run un- der Windows, Mac or Linux O/S. Installing Terminal View re-
quires a MySQL database and a webserver (RBS recommends Apache), both of which are freeware. An interface has to be written between the TOS and Ter- minal View and RBS can do this at cost.
Demonstration of RBS’s Terminal View freeware application
Solar cell first at Ohi
CIS (Copper, Indium, Selenium) solar cells made by Solar Frontier Ltd (formerly Showa Shell Solar Co Ltd) have been installed at Berths Nos 6 and 7 at the Port of Tokyo’s Ohi Container Terminal. The berths are leased by NYK
from the Tokyo Port Terminal Corporation for joint operations with subsidiary companies UNI- X Corporation and Nippon Con- tainer Terminals Co Ltd. This marks the first time that
CIS solar cells have been adopted at a domestic terminal in Japan, says NYK. The large cells can gen- erate up to 135 kW of electricity and, after the installation of almost 1600 panels, the generating capac- ity will be about 130,000 kWh/ year, around 1% of the electric power consumed annually at the terminal.
the roof of the gate wing at No.7 Berth, measures 1317 m2
compr ises 1590 671mm x 1235mm solar panels. According to NYK, CIS so-
lar cells are attracting attention as next-generation solar cells be- cause they do not contain silicon, which is in short supply due to excessive demand.
port for increased trade opportu- nities with Latin America, as well as Asia, resulting from the enlarge- ment of the Panama Canal The Florida Department of
Transportation has begun con- struction on a new, dedicated truck ramp and elevated connec- tor. When completed in 2013, the US$390M connector will provide a direct link from the port to the IS-4 and IS-75 highway system.
Specifically, the installation, on and
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