The European Union has initiated a pilot project whose aim is to build secure parking areas
December 28, 2008
The number of attacks on LGVs, in which not only the load is stolen, but also the driver is threatened with a weapon or even injured is steadily increasing. Apart from the long term mental damage to the driver, every year this results in losses of around 8.5 billion Euros, with the trend increasing. The European Union has therefore initiated a pilot project whose aim is to build secure parking areas.
One such automated secure parking area is currently being developed in Germany at the Wörnitz Truck Stop on Exit 109 of the A7 Autobahn, north of the A6/A7 interchange. Wörnitz Truck Stop commissioned DESIGNA and Würzburger Stadtverkehrs GmbH to build a fully automated secure LGV parking area in compliance with the highest security standards.
From December 2008 there will be 25 fully automated secure parking spaces available for LGVs with at risk freight. A special feature of the new secure parking area, which is, of course, fully fenced in and under video surveillance, is automatic photographic logging of the
- vehicle licence plate
- driver
- vehicle from the top left hand side
- and the vehicle from the top right hand side.
This implementation of innovations developed by DESIGNA in the tried and tested PM ABACUS system enables the operation to be fully automated without the operator needing to employ a large number of staff, explained DESIGNAs sales manager, Marten Jentsch, summarising the advantages of the companys system.
Source:Nadine Lübbe http://www.designa.com
From:Â DESIGNA Verkehrsleittechnik GmbH
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China’s trade surplus down 9.6% in Jan.-July period
August 12, 2008
– China’s trade surplus fell to 123.72 billion U.S. dollars in the first seven months, down 13.1 billion U.S. dollars, or 9.6 percent year on year, the General Administration of Customs said on Monday.
Analysts said the fall was partly a result of China’s policies to tame surplus, but was also because of the rising prices of energy.
The European Union (EU) continued to be the country’s biggest trading partner, with two-way trade totaling 243.14 billion U.S. dollars, up 27.9 percent from January to July.
Exports to the EU rose 27.1 percent to 165.04 billion U.S. dollars, while imports grew 29.8 percent to 78.1 billion U.S. dollars, leaving a trade surplus of 86.94 billion U.S. dollars, up 24.9 percent year on year. The surplus growth, however, had decreased 29 percentage points.
Exports to the United States, the country’s second biggest trade partner, grew 9.9 percent to 140.39 billion U.S. dollars with a trade surplus of 91.67 billion U.S. dollars, up 3.8 percent year on year. The surplus growth, however, also declined by 15 percentage points.
Japan remained China’s No. 3 trade partner with bilateral trade totaling 154.93 billion U.S. dollars, up 19.2 percent.
Jan.-July trade exports to Japan reached 65.48 billion U.S. dollars, up 15.9 percent, while imports totaled 89.45 billion U.S. dollars, up 21.6 percent. This created a trade deficit of 23.98 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 7 billion U.S. dollars over the same period of last year.
The administration said the average prices of primary products imports had soared. The country’s imports grew drastically by 70.6percent to 221.65 billion U.S. dollars in the first seven months, 32.6 percent of the total imports in the same period.
China imported 24.94 million tons of coal during the seven months with its average price jumping 51.9 percent to 70 U.S. dollars per tonnage. Imported soy bean grew to 20.73 million tons with its average prices up 78 percent to 591.70 U.S. dollars per ton.
Source: Xinhua
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