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...Port of Long Beach ever since that time...
While the ships wait at sea, they in effect serve as floating warehouses. That cost Iran a cool $1 billion in port surcharges last year. Perishable goods are lost. One freighter unloaded its cargo of rice, only to find that it had cooked into a giant pilaf in the steamy holds...
Iran quite simply wants to do too much too fast. The trouble can be most easily seen anywhere needed imports arrive. Every Iranian port on the Persian Gulf, from Abadan to Bandar Abbas, has become not a gateway but a bottleneck. Dock facilities are totally inadequate to handle the volume of goods that have been ordered. Despite round-the-clock shifts for longshoremen and feverish construction of new piers, the average time for a ship to get a berth is an almost incredible 150 days...
...carnage as usual in Beirut last week as Lebanon's 25th cease-fire in a year began with shelling, sniping and an opening-day death toll of 110. Moslem leftists advanced on the Christian-held port quarter of the capital by blowing a passage through already battle-scarred buildings, rather than moving through the streets. The city's international airport, under Moslem control, became a target for the first time when a dozen mortar rounds crashed into a hangar area, wounding seven and setting a Boeing 707 freighter on fire. Hopes were briefly raised when units of Syrian...
...three decades of feverish shipbuilding, the Russians have the second biggest navy, the No. 1 fishing fleet and-here is the clincher-a rapidly growing merchant marine that has already opened a new era of commercial competition on the high seas.* Soviet shippers are plying routes to every major port, from San Francisco to Dar es Salaam, Hamburg to Mombasa. It is almost as if the Russians were following the turn-of-the-century imperialist dictum: "Trade follows the flag...