Word: beira
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Stolen Sample. Much of the exporting begins by rail. Shipments go to friendly Portuguese Mozambique and its port of Beira. Since the rail lines from Malawi also run to Beira, outgoing Rhodesian goods are simply provided with Malawian or Mozambican certificates of origin before being loaded aboard ship. To show how brazen the practice getting around the U.N. rules has become, the Sunday Times reprints a Mozambique certification for 4,500 Ibs. of corned beef-a profitable product that the Portuguese colony does not manufacture...
...make that run became lost last week on the chartless sea of international diplomacy. Under the shadow of a United Nations resolution permitting the British to use "force" to preserve their oil embargo of Rhodesia (TIME, April 15), the Ioanna V finally docked in the Portuguese port of Beira, terminus of an oil pipeline to Rhodesia. There, separated from the end of the pipeline by only 30 ft., it waited. Several hundred miles to the south its sister ship Manuela set a course out of the South African port of Durban-destination unknown...
Slowly, the British were making their point that shipping oil to Rhodesia is a risky operation. Serving notice that Britain meant to use its U.N.-granted powers, the British frigate Berwick had intercepted the Manuela 150 miles from Beira and diverted it to Durban. Though Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has repeatedly vowed that he would not honor the British embargo, he had some second thoughts about permitting the Manuela to unload its oil for transshipment overland to Rhodesia-a highly expensive method for the Rhodesians but better than nothing. South Africa finally promised Britain that it would ban the Manuela...
...Back in Beira the Ioanna V, which had switched from Greek to Panamanian registration in mid-voyage, was boarded by the Panamanian consul, who informed the captain that the ship's Panamanian registration had been withdrawn, leaving the Ioanna V a ship without a country. Later, the Beira port captain placed the tanker and its 18,000 tons of oil under Portuguese control, which could mean that either Portugal was honoring the embargo by impounding the ship or simply making it easier to unload the oil. Whichever the case, the British intend to see to it that the Ioanna...
...wily South African entrepreneur named Rudolf Raphaely, who was attempting to run 400,000 tons of crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Rhodesia's main oil terminal-the Portuguese Mozambique port of Beira, which is connected with landlocked Rhodesia by a 187-mile pipeline. For weeks British warships had discouraged tankers from putting into Beira. Undaunted, one of Raphaely's ships, flying a Greek flag, quietly loaded 18,000 tons of crude in the Iranian port of Bandar Mashur and steamed around the northern coast of Africa to Dakar, where it changed its name to Ioanna...