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...area. "It leaked over 290 km of coast instead of in a small bay in which it could have been contained," he says. ABS, says Wade, has reviewed its records on the Prestige and "can find nothing in the paper trail that would raise any cause for concern." The Rotterdam Harbor Authority's chief inspector, Henk ten Hoope, agrees. In a September 1999 inspection, he found "nothing wrong with the ship's structure," he says. "As far as we were concerned, it was perfectly seaworthy." Shipping sources in Athens - base of the Prestige's registered owners, Mare Shipping...
...early 1900s, costing an estimated $1 billion in inefficiencies each year. Many clerks carry clipboards, tracking transactions with grease pencil and paper. When they use computers, they usually insist on re-entering all data themselves, even though it could easily be transmitted electronically from other ports. Modern ports in Rotterdam, Hong Kong and Singapore move three times as many trucks through their terminals every hour as their West Coast counterparts...
...message of last May's vote. Even Fortuyn's bitterest opponents acknowledged - especially after his death - that he'd latched on to real disenchantment. Nowhere is this harsher approach more evident than in the treatment of foreigners, and it is by no means just the LPF advocating it. Rotterdam's mayor, Ivo Opstelten of the VVD, has cracked down particularly hard in the blighted western part of his city, where many housing projects are inhabited solely by immigrant families. There police can search people without restriction; drug addicts from elsewhere found cruising the neighborhood can be arrested and forced into...
...British have misgivings about the new U.S. legislation. "We must place on record the firm view in support of the principle that regulation of audit and corporate governance is a matter for individual countries," the Confederation of British Industry wrote to the sec. Jaap Winter, a law professor at Rotterdam's Erasmus University who chairs a group of experts advising the European Commission on company law, says conflict should be avoidable. He contends that the U.S. is in some ways catching up with European practice with the new legislation. One example is the stipulation that a board's audit committee...
...only chef in the Netherlands with three stars. "But my mother was a very good cook." One dish stands out in Helder's memory: hare stewed in its own gravy with onions. "It was so natural," he says, deliciously simple in a style that he emulates at Parkheuvel, his Rotterdam restaurant, where the menu features more elaborate dishes, including ravioli stuffed with shoulder of pork and grilled turbot with an anchovy cream. Escoffier would be proud. "You can get so much pleasure from very simple things," says Savoy. "This morning, I feasted on a slice of bread and salted butter...