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...Two months later, Townsend Thoresen’s Herald of Free Enterprise left the Belgian port of Zeebrugge with its doors open....
...She had become interested in peat while walking with a climate scientist friend on the beach of Port Townsend, Washington. That interest, like many of her other obsessions, slowly ballooned....
...Chinese state shipping company Cosco also owns a controlling stake in Piraeus, Greece’s largest port, and is reportedly in talks to invest in a Hamburg port terminal....
...It safeguards merchant ships and holds a pier that could support China’s “aircraft carriers in the future”, the top US commander for Africa, Gen Stephen Townsend, recently said....
...Shortlisted contenders include the US group CH2M Hill; Turner & Townsend; EC Harris; and joint ventures between Aecom and Mace, and Capita Property Infrastructure and Gleeds Cost Management....
...Between 2007 and 2013, €36bn of the €355bn total of EU cohesion and regional funds was earmarked for the development of roads, railways, ports and airports in central and eastern Europe....
...This stands for Local Investment Opportunity Network, and is a group of angel investors in Port Townsend, Washington, with a hyperlocal bias....
...Mr Townsend said the city had “everything going for it”, including natural infrastructure such as a large port....
...David Gordon, director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at Bristol University, said half of all Haitian children were living in squalid and unsafe conditions....
...“This announcement will go towards assisting the infrastructure we need to make electric vehicles a viable solution in the UK,” said Jeremy Townsend, a UK spokesman for the French carmaker....
...“Portland is getting a good deal of attention as a city that’s got a high quality of life,” says Kathryn Townsend of Townsend Real Estate....
...But Fran Townsend, the president’s homeland security advisor, appeared to disagree....
...But the prospect of a takeover of P&O by DB World, a Dubai-based port operator, has put a question mark over the future of this valuable shareholder perk....
...Terry Townsend, executive director of the International Cotton Advisory Council, a grouping of cotton-growing nations, says Mali has “near-perfect agronomic conditions”....
...mills are using more cotton, but a tightening in credit by Chinese authorities this year has led some of them to renege on cotton import deals, leading to cotton stockpiles sitting in warehouses in Chinese ports...
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