In article , Scotty
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"Peter Wiley" wrote in message
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6. Dubai Ports has taken over P&O Ports. That means they
will be
running approx 40% of the cargo handling in Australia.
Nobody here
really cares. They are also going to be running ports in
various other
places on the planet.

Never heard of Dubai. I go to a P&O port about 4 times a
month.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/02/21/port.europe/

Icould tell you some stories about what goes on at the
piers, but it sounds like you've seen / heard it all before.

Oh yeah. Been involved with shipping for 30 odd years. Some of them
very odd. Actually wrote a port management software package back in the
early 90's, was used in BVI for a while, dunno if it still is. Good
friend of mine's brother is a wharfie (longshoreman to you), father was
one, cousins ditto, one a maritime union representative.

I like ports, ships, general maritime stuff.

PDW