Sentences with phrase «coast shipping port»

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It arrived in Spain on a ship from the Colombian port of Turbo, on the Caribbean coast in the northern state of Antioquia.

In early March, as rebels fought for control of the country's east coast ports, where much of the country's oil is refined or shipped abroad, the price of the American crude contract (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) broke US$ 100 for the first time since 2008.

The transportation company ships coal and industrial products on its railroad, serving every major port on the East Coast.

Contract talks between the two sides have dragged on for nine months, leading to labor tensions, chronic cargo congestion and shipping delays at ports along the coast that collectively handle nearly half of all U.S. maritime trade and more than 70 percent of imports from Asia.

D'Avignon pointed out that Alberta and B.C. have the most integrated economies in Canada and if costs rise in B.C., it will affect the cost of trade goods going to Alberta and the cost to ship Alberta products such as grain from West Coast ports.

U.S. Coast Guard officials also said interference with ships» GPS disrupted operations at a port for several hours in 2014 and at another terminal in 2015.

SAN FRANCISCO / TOKYO (Reuters)- A labor dispute at ports on the U.S. West Coast is disrupting supply chains across the Pacific, forcing some Asian exporters to resort to costly air freight and pushing up shipping rates as more freighters are caught up in long lines to dock.

There have also been occasional naval visits as Canadian ships en - route to deployment in the Gulf stopped off to show the flag in Shanghai and other Chinese ports and PLA navy ships have made sporadic visits to Canada's west coast naval base at Esquimalt, BC.

The first vessel used was a ship out of Adramyttium, a port on the northwest coast near Troas, which was sailing back from the south and stopped to pick up passengers at Caesarea.

Whatever state builds the first major off - shore wind project is likely to attract the infrastructure investment in manufacturing, shipping, ports, and supply chain that will position it to be the center of the off - shore wind built out along the east coast.

February 18, 2015 • A labor dispute between shipping lines and dock workers has created big cargo backups at many West Coast ports.

Among other things, we visited the ports and slave fortresses at El Mina and Cape Coast, where Africans had been brought to be sold and shipped as slaves to the New World.

Skip the cruise ship port of Montego Bay and find calming isolation in the more remote Treasure Beach along the island's southwest coast.

I experienced Dubrovnik as part of a Mediterranean cruise (the cruise ship port is just a short shuttle bus ride away) but many tourists will seek out Dubrovnik as a stand - alone city trip, as part of a road trip or maybe just as a day trip from one of the beach resorts along the Croatian coast.

After disembarking your ship at the Freeport cruise port, hop aboard your transfer vehicle for the short ride to Junkanoo Beach, along the south coast of Grand Bahama.

Cruise ship ports in the Dominican Republic are located on the southcentral (Santo Domingo), north (Puerto Plata), southeastern (La Romana and Punta Cana) and northeastern (Samaná) coasts, visiting especially during the winter months.

Seaports: Cruise ship ports in the Dominican Republic are located on the southcentral (Santo Domingo), north (Puerto Plata), southeastern (La Romana and Punta Cana) and northeastern (Samaná) coasts, visiting especially during the winter months.

«It's just premature to assume that slowing vessel speed is the solution to the ship - whale interaction issue,» said T.L. Garrett, vice president of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Assn., a trade group representing ocean carriers that dock at West Coast ports.

Wake up each day sailing into a new destination, bypassing the usual cruise ship excursions and walk the nearby coast and hills or explore the cultural cities of our ports of call.

Russia built ports on the northern coast of Siberia and established shipping up until the early 1950 ′ s when the freeze returned and the routes and ports were closed.

Currently, U.S. exports to Asia are somewhat constrained because there is little port capacity for big coal ships on the U.S. West Coast, and because metallurgical coal, the high - heat content rock that is used for steelmaking, is mined exclusively on the U.S. East Coast.

Companies are angling to build two export facilities in Washington State from which 100 million tons of coal would be shipped to China, Japan and South Korea a year — about the same as what the United States exports now from East Coast and Gulf ports.

The refineries, cargo ships, diesel trucks and factories clustered near the ports generate enough toxic air pollution to put the risk of cancer near Melissa and Mary's house 20 percent higher than the average for the south coast of California.

Arch is making plans to ship at least a portion of this coal to Asia by way of west coast ports.

Its an effort that would require shipping coal by rail to the coast, and dredging and dumping waste in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage site in order to expand ports and channels for shipping the coal to India.

The TPP is, in the same way, designed to protect «free trade» in dirty energy products such as tar sands oil, coal from the Powder River Basin, and liquefied natural gas shipped out of West Coast ports.

Many of those ports have deepened or begun projects to deepen their channels to handle the bigger ships coming from Asia to the East Coast, including the Port of Miami, which spent $ 1.3 billion, and Savannah, which expects to pay over $ 700 million to deepen its shipping channel.

Here on the West Coast cabinets are shipped to our ports then distributed under various names.