Port Inspections

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Long Beach company ordered to pay workers $3.5 million in back wages

Press Telegram 20 Sep 2018

Port of Long Beach receives $4 million security grant from FEMA Neighbors ... ports honored for service by LA Galaxy Long Beach port ... The company has a federal contract to move cargo containers to a centralized examination facility at the Long Beach-Los Angeles port complex when those containers are selected for inspection by Customs & Border Protection....

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New measures to encourage growth of foreign trade

China Daily 19 Sep 2018

China will roll out new measures including cutting customs clearance times, streamlining port services and improving the export tax rebate policy to increase opening-up and facilitate foreign trade, it was announced after a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday ... By Nov 1, companies will be able to get customs clearance documents processed online and go through verification at ports....

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Forensic Scientists Are Taking on Elephant-Killing Cartels

The Atlantic 19 Sep 2018

Samuel Wasser has noticed that the tusks are getting smaller ... Once they leave port, these shipments are very hard to find. “There are so many containers on cargo ships that even the most sophisticated ports can inspect just 1 to 2 percent of them,” Wasser says ... The matching tusks were almost always shipped from the same port within 10 months of each other, but they went out in different consignments....

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Sharon High Alumni Hall to induct new class

The Sharon Herald 19 Sep 2018

+8 ... They voted against joint golf and tennis teams ... on Saturday ... More info ... +8. Pickering ... Following her marriage, she accompanied her husband to his naval assignment in Port Lyautey, Morocco, and to 10 diplomatic posts around the world ... +8 ... His career in the oil industry began in the same year with Petro Marine Engineering in Louisiana, where he inspected the design and construction of the onshore terminal of Louisiana’s offshore oil port....

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New measures to be taken for steady growth of foreign trade: China's cabinet

China Daily 18 Sep 2018

18  - China will roll out new measures including cutting customs clearance time, streamlining port services and improving the export tax rebate policy to increase opening up and facilitate the steady growth of foreign trade, the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Tuesday ... The list of government administrative charges at ports will be released before the end of the year....

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It is the EU's turn to compromise on Brexit, says Dominic Raab

The Guardian 18 Sep 2018

Meanwhile the Irish government is expected to approve plans to hire 450 new customs and inspection officers for Dublin port before the end of the year as preparations for Brexit are ramped up ... This will mean that inspection on agri-goods destined for Northern Ireland from Britain will be checked in Dublin port first, helping Michel Barnier’s efforts to “de-dramatise” the Irish border issue....

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The Guardian view on US-China trade wars: careful what you start | Editorial

The Guardian 18 Sep 2018

“It is easier to start a war than to end it,” Gabriel García Márquez once observed ... And Chinese seafood lovers are reportedly switching to Canadian crustaceans thanks to new inspections of US lobsters. That’s hardly a game-changer – but it is a reminder that US companies, ports and farmers are suffering, and that consumers will too; tellingly, the administration has staggered its new tariffs to avoid the holiday shopping season ... .......

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Gangolli jetty slabs collapse; fishermen worried

Deccan Herald 17 Sep 2018

The Fisheries minister and senior officials had visited and inspected the collapsed slabs a year ago ... Byndoor MLA B M Sukumar Shetty said, “The issue has been brought to the notice of Ports Department ... Fisheries Department Assistant Director Anjanadevi said, “After inspecting the spot, a report has been submitted to Ports Department Joint Director in Malpe .’....

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Environment: NPA Steps Up Inspection of Ships Calling Nigeria’s Territorial Waters

This Day 17 Sep 2018

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has pledged to step up inspection of ships calling at the nation’s territorial waters to ensure they discharge their ballast waters in order to protect the marine environment from invasive species ... According to him, “We are going to step up the inspection of ships when they call at Nigeria to see from their record if they have done the exchange in line with the regulations....

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Fertilizer Shortage to Increase Kenya's International Flower Prices

All Africa 17 Sep 2018

Delays at the port of Mombasa as a result of new and stringent measures on local inspection of all fertilizer imports have caused a massive shortage in the country .......

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EU officials 'have been redrafting Irish backstop'

RTE 17 Sep 2018

As part of the "de-dramatisation" approach, the Task Force is proposing that British customs inspectors could - on their own - carry out inspections at British ports on goods going from Britain to Northern Ireland ... On the use of technology, EU sources have insisted that while hi-tech solutions could make the backstop more acceptable to the UK, they would not be used at the Irish land border, but rather at British ports....

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US accuses Russia of covering up North Korea sanctions violations

The Observer 17 Sep 2018

The US has accused Russia of wholesale violations of international sanctions on North Korea, secretly transferring huge quantities of oil and other commodities to the regime’s ships at sea ... North Korea frustrates US as 'maximum pressure' eases on sanctions. Read more ... But Haley said Washington had “evidence of consistent and wide-ranging Russian violations”. “To evade port inspections, oil tankers come together over the high seas ... ....

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Red Tide & Blaming Farmers & Global Warming Yet it Conforms to Pi

Armstrong Economics 17 Sep 2018

If you ever live at the shore, one thing that crops up in 13-year cycles is what they call Red Tide ... I use to hear that in New Jersey and the same thing in Florida ... Red Tide also takes place in the Pacific ... The governor decreed a ban on the sale of all types of fish from rivers and those fish from the sea could not be sold until the proper authorities inspected them. This same epidemic of dead fish occurred repeatedly in this same port ... ....

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