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...“There could be some signalling that [these filings] are taking it a step too far,” said Bryan Armour, director of passive strategies research, North America, at Morningstar....
...Last week, Mr Berko resigned as managing director of the Ghana state-owned Tema Oil Refinery, according to a government statement....
...Lips think Pablo Picasso once compared Salvador Dalí to an “outboard motor, continually running” — Surrealism’s most recognisable name was also one of its most prolific creators....
...Dealing with creditors When the Libertad, an Argentine frigate, docked at the Ghanaian port of Tema in October 2012, the captain and its 220-strong crew expected a brief, enjoyable goodwill visit to the...
...“Too many people are used to administrating the system in the old way,” says Rafael Hernández, editor of Temas, a reform-orientated cultural magazine....
...“The timing . . . is important,” said Rafael Hernández, editor of Temas, a Cuban political quarterly. “It is happening . . . while there are still seeds to sow in US and Cuban policy.”...
...Rafael Hernández, editor of Temas, notes: “Raúl Castro has said the private sector is not an agent of capitalism, and has spoken of the need to end old habits of thinking....
...“All of Raúl’s economic reforms involved decentralisation, which is good, as Cuba needs that,” says Rafael Hernández, editor of Temas, a state-published cultural magazine....
...Nihat, 88, is one of the founders of Tekfen Holding, an engineering, science and technology conglomerate with a billion-dollar turnover....
...Hailed by Cristina Fernández, the president, as a “symbol of the sovereignty and national dignity against those who want to trample the Argentine republic”, the white-flagged frigate finally left Tema, Ghana's...
...paragraph 5, of the Convention: Ghana shall forthwith and unconditionally release the frigate ARA Libertad, shall ensure that the frigate ARA Libertad, its Commander and crew are able to leave the port of Tema...
...It argued that a warship enjoys immunity, and refused to budge, even though the Libertad was occupying one of Tema’s busiest berths usually used for construction supplies, and the port authority claimed...
...The Libertad, a three-masted eighty-metre long sailing ship, was held for 78 days last year in the Ghanaian port of Tema. It was seized in October on the orders of a local court....
...Vessels carrying shipments for Ghana’s oil industry are among those stuck in queues at Tema as the country heads into its peak pre-Christmas import period....
...Port authorities in Tema, Ghana’s busiest commercial port, on November 7 cut off water and electricity supplies to the imposing tall ship and sought to board the vessel to move it by force after saying it...
...The Libertad has been held in the port of Tema since October 2 after an injunction by NML Capital, a subsidiary of the billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Capital Management, which is seeking to collect on...
...And when the 100 metre-long ship docked in Tema, it pounced....
...On Tuesday last week, an Elliott subsidiary, NML Capital, succeeded in having a 3,700 tonne Argentinian naval ship, crewed by more than 200, seized in the Ghanaian port of Tema....
...In Tema, where the Libertad has been a pretty misfit with its three tall masts and intricate rigging in docks with containers piled five high, about 20 freighters have been sitting in the Atlantic waiting...
...growth over the period, which may reflect Tema’s shutdown for most of the quarter....
...Upcoming cruises on the Silver Explorer include Antarctica, Central and South America, the Northwest Passage, and the Russian far east....
...It is free to leave the Ghanaian port of Tema if Buenos Aires posts a bond with the court, which Elliott would then also seek to recover....
...Heavily potholed roads and containers stacked high in tightly-packed Tema port attest to Ghana’s difficulties in handling break-neck growth....
...Both would be able to handle far more goods if this figure fell to the 15-day average in nearby Ghana, whose container terminal at Tema is seeing similar growth levels with fewer obvious signs of strain....
...“There have been other congresses,” says Rafael Hernández, editor of Temas, a government-supported magazine at the forefront of internal debates about reform....
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