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...Imagine you are in your early twenties and you head off to your work Christmas party only to end up being hung upside down, topless, from a crane....
...from investing in new transport infrastructure....
...“In the area, there are six fishmeal factories and a fleet of around 70 industrial fishing vessels that are the largest source of work in Chancay,” says Raúl Pérez-Reyes, Peru’s transport minister....
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...“If you look at the ports in Rotterdam, Shanghai and in the Middle East and Singapore, most cranes are automated,” he said....
...Autonomous trucks and unmanned cranes are already improving efficiency and working environments at some ports....
...The cranes that loom over Odesa’s docks stand idle, the cafés and restaurants along its waterfront corniche are largely empty of customers and no ships are visible as dusk falls over the Black Sea....
...Dockside cranes at Felixstowe were shifting an average of just under 20 containers per hour between January and October this year, dipping to 17.8 in October, according to data provider IHS Markit....
...Towering gantry cranes slid over piles of containers as if they were Lego blocks. On the tarmac, rows of trucks, laden with containers, crawled like worker ants....
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...“They built Jebel Ali in Dubai, took the model including the cranes and are rolling it out globally,” he said....
...Since the report was written, says lead author Keith Crane, “private sector demand for goods and services from space has not really materialised”....
...Greece Tourists in Greece might be surprised by the number of cranes, bulldozers, and trucks working on summer villas, writes Eleni Varvitsioti....
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