Sentences with phrase «major port»

In a more traditional sense of economics, there are three major ports in the area.

We also applaud the notable references to the Pacific Gateway and, specifically, the introduction of a National Trade Corridors Fund to «address urgent capacity constraints and freight bottlenecks at major ports of entry.»

Their cargo was traded at major ports for European and Chinese manufactured goods they would bring back to their homeland.

Inspired by artificial structures for marine environments, Burt developed a conceptual array of Olympic facilities, including a stadium, that could be transported along waterways and moored in major port cities.

But because Florida imports the vast majority of its fuel needs, the potential disruptions of major ports on the Florida coast will be pivotal.

Sessions explored how new marine reserves can be governed across political boundaries; how surveillance at major ports like Vancouver has kept emerging «superbug» viruses under control; and how breakthroughs in artificial meat production could satisfy the world's growing appetite for beef and pork.

If, as 2008 SST / SHA maps are showing, major ports around the Atlantic Basin are stemming their wastewater emissions, then surface waters will retain less diurnal heat.

Gloucester County Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger supports the project stating, «As one of the only major ports in New Jersey able to facilitate the large volume of shipping and construction activities under the Governor's ambitious offshore wind power plan, we are a proponent of the immediate opportunity to evaluate our facility and labor force in order to identify and upgrade infrastructure and workforce training.

It is family time for urban dwellers to go home and visit relatives — high traffic and peak domestic flights throughout major ports across Indonesia becomes commonplace.

«This is the largest decision we will be making as a state from a carbon pollution standpoint, certainly during my lifetime,» Jay Inslee said in his first press conference as governor, referring to the approval process over six major port projects proposed for Oregon and Washington.

The state is smack in the middle of multiple major ports and cultural centers, and so it's a great place to go if you want ready access to everything the big city has to offer, without actually having to live in a major metropolis.

The event at the Queens airport was part of a broader theme Cuomo has trumpeted over the years: The state's push to upgrade major ports, airports and other major infrastructure components.

Major ports include Hai Phong, Da Nang, Qui Nhon and Cam Ranh.

Fusing art, documentary filmmaking, journalism and ethnographic research, Sekula immersed himself in the world of international shipping, journeying on board commercial vessels around the world between major ports such as Athens and Yokohama.

Shell's flotilla will continue to wait in Dutch Harbor — 1,000 miles south of the proposed drilling sites; the closest major port to the North Slope — while unexpectedly heavy sea ice prevents them from making the voyage to the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

500 years ago, it was one of the centers of the civilized world — Seville was Spain's major port for receiving gold from the Americas, while several hundred years before that it was one of the main Moorish cities in Spain, along with Granada and Cordoba, which was once the capital of the Moorish empire in Iberia.

Canadian Pacific is a transcontinental railway in Canada and the U.S. with direct links to major ports on the west and east coasts, providing North American customers a competitive rail service with access to key markets across the globe.

Global marine black carbon emissions inventories and baseline air emissions inventories produced for major ports in Indonesia, Ghana, Bangladesh, Kenya and Chile

BEIJING / CHICAGO (Reuters)- China's major ports of entry have ramped up checks on fresh fruit imports from the United States, five Chinese industry sources said, which could delay shipments from U.S. growers already dealing with higher tariffs as Sino-U.S. trade ties worsen.

Santa Cruz de la Palma has the only major port in the island, serving ferry routes to Cádiz in Spain, as well as to Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote.

In addition to currently operating and closed oil refineries like BP Amoco, Chevron, Citgo, ESSO, Exxon, Fina, Gulf, Mobil and Shell, the state is home to several major ports.

Hospitality is the food, drink, and other privileges which some companies provide for their visitors or clients at major porting or other public events.

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

Reporter Monte Paulsen noted that Vancouver is one of the world's most expensive places for working people to live, and a major port.

China's major ports of entry have ramped up checks on fresh fruit imports from the United States, five Chinese industry sources said, which could delay shipments from U.S. growers already dealing with higher tariffs as Sino-U.S. trade ties worsen.

Ephesus was a major port city, religious hot house (remember «Great is Artemis of the Ephesians»?)

David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Ministries (popularly known as Winners» Chapel) in Lagos, Nigeria's major port and most - populous city, owns three Gulfstreams (plus a Learjet) worth almost US$ 100 million.

Arabs established Morocco as a major port - of - call and introduced many spices such as cinnamon and ginger as well as the Persian love of adding fruit and honey to meat dishes.

Senior business leaders are privately critical of Liberal West Australian Premier Colin Barnett for failing to sell the state's power network, water assets or major ports to cut ballooning debt.

Stationed near the major ports of Australia's coastal cities are a group of closely monitored beehives designed to detect the varroa mite parasite that has the potential to decimate bee populations.

USDA compiled a list of charitable organizations (with permission from the organizations) and posted and shared the list of exempted outlets with USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) Fruit and Vegetable Program Specialty Crop Inspection Division employees at major ports.

In fact, it goes back to the building of the Manchester Ship Canal, making Manchester a major port and taking jobs away from Liverpool, which did not go down well 35 miles down the East Lancs Road.

It would also increase border personnel, agents and scientists to test and intercept synthetic opioids and both major ports and post offices.

He said the ground breaking ceremony marked the commencement of the government's plan to move speedily to improve transport links with Lagos, the national economic nerve centre and major port to other state capital across the country.

This, even though the authorities with which they are associated oversee, among other things, the subway, the LIRR, PATH, every major airport in New York State, every major port in New York and New Jersey, and, of course, Ground Zero.

Maybe there are places where a sea wall is the only option, maybe it's a major port, so you really have to have a deep channel.»

In the summer of 1993, he traveled to Manaus, Brazil, a major port city in the Amazon rain forest, to study members of the Centro Espirita Beneficente União do Vegetal (UDV) church.

And in Australia, the environment minister is investigating claims that members of a board responsible for protecting the Great Barrier Reef have financial ties to companies that could benefit from a major port expansion.

A water trading system to conserve supplies By 2070, the value of flood - exposed economic assets in 136 major ports could reach 9 percent of global gross domestic product.

At those times, ship traffic in SMAs around major ports and feeding, calving and nursing grounds must not travel faster than 18.5 kilometers per hour.

More than 200 scientists are urging the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to reject a major port expansion in north Queensland.

In the Ceremonial County of Hampshire lies the major port and closest city to the New Forest, the City of Southampton.

As the largest city and a major port on the river, Manaus is commercial.

It is a major port on the Atlantic Ocean.