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...Cal Flyn Chico Hot Springs, Montana In Pray, Montana (pop. 800), Chico Hot Springs is something of a local institution....
...A maritime security source said he understood it was the Asphalt Princess that had been seized, though he highlighted that the tanker’s owners, Prime Tankers LLC in the UAE, had previously had another vessel...
...From a Buddha-shaped building on the tourist island of Hainan, China’s HNA Group transformed into a sprawling transport-to-finance conglomerate through a debt-fuelled $40bn dealmaking binge....
...A spokesperson for the Spanish transport ministry denied this, saying that the delay in resolving the issue was due to the “bankruptcy regulation . . . which ensures that the rights of all parties involved...
...Driving can be an isolating experience compared with walking or using public transport, but there is a strange feeling of community that comes from being part of a stream of cars all taking the same, improbable...
...Elsewhere, Denmark has imposed controls on its southern frontier with Germany to stem the flow of migrants....
Chair of development fund hopes to seal three infrastructure sales worth billions of euros by 2016
Restructuring plan would inject up to $7bn of equity into US utility
...Better just hope that this “something” will not be too devastating; such as a real attack on the transport sector and markets. gillian.tett@ft.com...
The seizure of the Maersk Tigris is another harsh maritime lesson for private equity
...It’s an odd choice of words, given that Uber’s legal arguments often rest on classifying itself as an asset-light software company, not as a transportation provider. …....
...“When I founded SpaceX, development in space transport and rocket technology had essentially frozen,” says Musk....
...Consider the experience of Morocco’s Attijariwafa Bank, which has pursued a distinctly Southern growth strategy, acquiring banks in Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, and Togo. Attijariwafa is not alone....
...MSIP has been snapping up assets in recent years including Southern Star Central, a company that transports natural gas to municipalities including Kansas City and Oklahoma City....
...The trade, tourism and transport that are the foundations of its economy have been thriving for a couple of years, bringing an air of optimism back to the city after its 2009 debt crisis....
...Many railways point to their customers’ behaviour – including the order in June by Phillips 66, the refining and chemicals group, for 2,000 rail tank cars to transport shale oil – as evidence of a long-term...
...June is normally a busy season for coal traders as power plants in southern China stock up for the summer months....
...Only last week Gennady Onishchenko, the head of Russia’s state consumer protection agency, accused Georgia of spreading swine fever to southern Russia in an act of “economic sabotage.”...
...He decries the Obama administration’s unwillingness to allow the Keystone pipeline, which would transport tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, to be built because, as he puts it, it thinks “six...
...On some tanker routes, spot-market rates have fallen so far in recent weeks that shipowners have been paying customers to let them transport their cargo....
...It is hard to extract substantial cost synergies from such deals because brewing remains a local business – regional brands are important and beer is expensive to transport....
...In other deals, Minnesota-based Transport America has doubled its complement of drivers to more than 2,200 with the purchase of Southern Cal Transport of Alabama....
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