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President Obama and Secretary Foxx, it is an honor to be here this morning and to welcome you to the United States. It is truly a pleasure for the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration to host this APEC Port Services Network Workshop in one of America’s greatest port cities: Seattle, Washington. It is very fitting that we chose this location for our engagement. Seattle’s waterfront and harbor played central roles in this city’s transition from a tiny frontier settlement supporting

growth hub and port facilities, due to the access between ports of Auckland and Tauranga (Tainui Group Holdings 2016). This area is located within the urban rural fringe, across 822-hectare (refer to Figure 1). Due to this location, urban development is prohibited within the area, according to the operative district plan rules. This develops the issue of the plan change through Tainui Group Holdings Limited and Chedworth Properties Limited aiming to proceed with development of the inland port in this area

Ports are basically a means of integration into the global economic system. Ports are basically a means of integration into the global economic system.As international barriers to trade have effectively been lifted by the WTO-agreements since the 1980s, global manufacturers have vertically disintegrated their production systems into geographically dispersed and flexibly organized supply chain systems.The development of deep sea ports as associate economic infrastructure assumes that like roads, communications

Influence of the Ancient Port of Massilia on the contemporary Port of Brisbane Introduction The influence of historical aspects of the built environment on contemporary infrastructure can be recognised throughout the world today. The range of these built environment aspects that were created and have continued to exist to the present, indicate the importance of development throughout these times to create modern technologies. This influence can be seen through design elements such as bridges, buildings

On September 5, 1944 Allied bombs began to fall from the sky onto the port town of Le Havre, France. The second most important port city in France, according to www.encyclopedia.com, was targeted by the Ally troops and bombed in order to keep the German Army from using the port city as a gateway to an invasion of Great Britain. Many civilians fled the town on foot after the Germans captured the town in 1940, but many others who remained in the town were injured or killed during the bombings. Nearly

operations at specific ports of embarkation and debarkation; making targeting for a chemical attack fairly simple. Like chemical weapons, biological weapons are easy to obtain, but the area covered by such an attack is fairly small and limited. The most effective area to use a chemical weapon on a seaport would be the operation center of that port due to the limited damage it will cause to the infrastructure. The psychological effect of VX or Sarin would devastate any port operation and to trace

Developments in securing the nation’s ports have occurred since September 11, 2001: According to American Association of Ports Authorities (n. d) the United States is served by some 360 commercial ports that provide approximately 3,200 cargo and passenger handling facilities and there are more than 150 deep draft seaports under the jurisdiction of 126 public seaport agencies located along the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf and Great Lakes coasts, as well as in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the

it 's getting late. I say good-bye to my mother and father and I get in the cab. I watch as my parents wave good-bye and I realise that mother is crying. It 's a dark and gloomy day and it 's really cold. Then, my adventure begins... I arrive at Port Harbour and all the ships and men are already here. "ALL MEN ON DECK!", booms the Dictator. All the men file up and flow onto the ships. I take a deep breath and join the line.

Sea port plays an important role of a countries economy and it is related to positive economic growth and development. The economic history showed that it plays major role to growth of any countries economy and development such as Britain, Spain, Portugal have sea ports that played in the development of their economies.Establishment of a deep-sea port has become strategically very critical for Bangladesh considering its potential impact on the development and economic growth of the country. Deep

the Port of Los Angeles is a “massive heart, pumping what the country needs, or wants, through this major rail artery, which separates into thousands of smaller vessels”.(pg29) The Docks by Bill Sharpsteen gives the reader an insider’s look at how important the port is to the United States. Throughout the book Bill interviews with people who work different areas of the port and some that are connected upstream or downstream of the supply chain in some way. He explains the history of the port and