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Dubai ****ts Studies Building Cuba Container Terminal
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
Reuters - Oct 19, 2007
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=2007-10-19T204022Z_01_N18320791_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-CUBA-DUBAI-****T-DC.XML
Dubai ****ts studies building Cuba container terminal
HAVANA (Reuters) - State-owned Dubai ****ts World, which relinquished
control over six U.S. ****ts in a political firestorm last year, is
studying plans to build a container terminal in the Cuban ****t of
Mariel, business sources said.
DP World agreed in early October to do a feasibility study to build a
$250 million container terminal in Mariel that would start operating in
2012, a Havana ****t source told Reuters.
"A deal is in the works. It is moving forward and they have signed
various agreements," another person familiar with the plan told Reuters.
In Dubai, DP World spokeswoman Sarah Lockie said on Friday she could
not immediately comment.
DP World became the world's third-largest container ****t business last
year when it bought Britain's Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation
Co. But it was forced to sell P&O's U.S. assets when the Bush
administration came under fire for allowing an Arab-owned company to
control U.S. ****ts.
Critics said the deal involving the ****ts of New York City, Newark,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami and New Orleans posed a threat to U.S.
national security.
P&O had planned for several years to rebuild Mariel ****t, 30 miles west
of Havana on the north coast of the Caribbean island, and turn it into
a modern container ****t.
The ****t of Mariel was the site of a massive boat lift in 1980, when a
flotilla of vessels from Florida picked up 125,000 Cubans wanting to
leave the Communist-run island.
Its strategic proximity to the United States makes Mariel an attractive
investment looking ahead to a time when Cuba is no longer under a U.S.
trade embargo, given limited ****t capacity in the United States, one
source said.
(c) Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.
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