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...about transport into the architecture of a city....
...Google’s New York City complex in the old Port Authority building in Lower Manhattan is bigger than its Googleplex headquarters in suburban Silicon Valley....
...Detroit’s sunniest optimists even say that, when the world shifts, the carmakers will thrive: fat operating margins will be available for managing autonomous fleets of taxis and buses or providing insurance...
...(FT) China’s cities could learn from Tokyo The use of cars and taxis by Beijing residents is 27 percentage points higher than that of Tokyo residents; their use of buses and subways 29 percentage points...
...But completely self-driving cars could take decades to reach every city, even if the first autonomous vehicles are on the road in some places within a couple of years....
...On spotting John McCaw in the lobby of the George V hotel in Paris, Donald Pels cracked a smile....
...But the main character here is the city of Lagos, with its Danfo buses, colourful markets and entrenched corruption....
...But if the ports of call were a world away from the traditional cruising grounds of the Caribbean and Côte d’Azur, life on board seemed reassuringly familiar....
...In some parts of the city, life had already returned to normal....
...Howard Glaser, New York state’s director of operations, said the city’s port was reopening on Thursday, bringing 200 barges of fuel that would help ease petrol shortages....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Motiva, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Royal Dutch Shell, will this year add 325,000 b/d of capacity at a Port Arthur, Texas refinery that will make it the largest in the US....
...In a separate case, New York-listed Diana Shipping said in December it was owed $4.8m for charter of the M/V Houston, which it had chartered for five years to China’s Shagang Shipping....
...’s far north, once one of the most remote outposts of the British empire....
...The city’s port, once the glory of the Eastern seaboard, had sunk into irrelevance....
...Many of them live in large cities, where policymakers contending with smog and packed streets are realising that automobiles can no longer be large, costly hunks of metal that pollute for a few hours of...
...Millions more travel home for the lunar new year holiday on long-distance buses or, increasingly, by air....
...Company buses are not restricted to America’s technology behemoths. In the UK, Zurich, the insurance business, has a number of travel services for its staff....
...The City of London appears at the mercy of sovereign wealth. Its electricity is supplied by a company controlled by the government of that ancient enemy, France....
...The storm is now expected land closer to Port Arthur, which lies 75 miles northeast of Houston and has about 1m barrels a day of refining capacity, half Houston's volume....
...The approach by DP World, Dubai’s state-owned ports operator, to P&O is a harbinger of things to come....
...US refiner Premcor this week temporary shut down its Port Arthur refinery in Texas....
...Michael V....
..."The branding and R&D that you need in these industries are not easy for Chinese companies; it is not where their strengths are," says Arthur Kroeber, editor of China Economic Quarterly....
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