Pakistani Handover of Gwadar Port to Beijing Draws Scrutiny The Gwadar port lies near the Strait of Hormuz, gateway for about 20 percent of the worlds oil. Beijing provided most of the port's initial $250 million construction cost, as part of a plan...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 11 May 2007 watch Container Security report Security at container ports in the United States has been a major concern since the terrorist attacks in 2001. Bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress increased funding for...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans 28 August 2006 One year after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, one of the city's main engines of economic activity is back with a vengeance. Business at the port is now above pre-Katrina levels....
By Meredith Buel Washington 24 August 2006 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan meets with European foreign ministers Friday in Brussels where he is expected to encourage them to send armed forces to southern Lebanon to help enforce the truce...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 08 March 2006 Population growth in most of Africa is expected to rise sharply over the next 50 years. But, in southern Africa, AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through tw...
By Jim Malone Washington 24 February 2006 Cargo ship is unloaded at Maryland's port of Baltimore The controversy over the Bush administration's decision to allow a company from the United Arab Emirate...
By Scott Stearns Washington 23 February 2006 President Bush is defending a deal that would allow a company owned by the United Arab Emirates to manage commercial shipping operations at six major U.S....
By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 22 February 2006 watch Port Controversy report There is controversy over the Bush administration's decision to allow an Arab company to manage six major ports in the Unite...
IN THE NEWS - October 12, 2002: Bush Invokes Taft-Hartley in Port Shutdown By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS. Twenty-nine industrial ports in the west...