Word: offload
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...weekend that the U.N. should consider imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe unless the violence ceases. Unions, civil society and church groups from around the region have also rallied to support Zimbabwe's opposition, successfully preventing a Chinese weapons shipment bound for Zimbabwe from reaching the landlocked country by refusing to offload it in southern African ports. And the reunification of the opposition has supporters hopeful. "This was the moment for them to reunite, because the disagreement between them was always about how to get rid of Mugabe," says Sisulu. "So now that the electorate has spoken, there's no reason...
...Mugabe. Still, Mbeki's political marginalization within his own party, which made him a lame duck when it chose his arch-rival Jacob Zuma as ANC president last December, has emboldened critics of his Zimbabwe policy. Trade union members in the South African port of Durban refused to offload a Chinese ship carrying armaments for the Zimbabwean government. The vessel, having also been denied entry to Mozambique and Tanzania, had to leave the port and may be recalled to China, according to news agencies. And Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa took the unprecedented step of urging surrounding countries...
...capita income of $1,100 per year. She first found her way here working on a barge that carries bricks up the river that flows past our house. Qiu has the build of an Olympic weight lifter, with thick, powerful legs, and she and other work-gang members would offload the bricks on a wide wooden plank attached to a rope that they would sling across their shoulders. The subcontractor who built our development estimates he used about 70,000 bricks at Emerald Riverside. Qiu and her work gang delivered all of them...
...been little reference to the mechanics of port management in the U.S. Over 80 percent of the terminals in the Port of Los Angeles, for example - the biggest in the U.S. - are run by foreign-owned companies. U.S. ports are owned by state authorities, and the workers who actually offload the ships that dock there are the same unionized Americans who belong to the International Longshoremen's Association, regardless of which company hires them. Dubai Ports will not "own" the U.S. facilities, but will inherit the P&O's contracts to run them, with no changes in the dockside personnel...
...That afternoon, says Mahalingam, a small boat flying a white flag approached. Somali negotiators had sent it to escort the Semlow to a Somali port where it could offload the rice it was still carrying. Mahalingam, who a fortnight ago finally made it back to Mombasa, four months after first setting out, and is now home in Sri Lanka, radioed the Torgelow, a sister ship that was carrying tea and coffee for Somali traders as well as food and oil for the Semlow. But instead of hearing the captain's voice on the radio, Mahalingam heard a familiar Somali accent...