The MPT which has been implementing the International Ship and Port Security code (ISPS) Code has to ensure safety of the port, It said it is required to relocate fisheries jetty of Vasco which has easy access to Arabian sea as it can be used for transportation of arms and ammunitions. The MPT which has been implementing the International Ship and Port Security code (ISPS) Code has to ensure safety of the port, It said it is required to relocate fisheries jetty of Vasco which has easy...

ROCKLAND The Island Institute has produced a report that it says paints a sobering picture of Maine s working waterfront, the saltwater access that many Mainers rely on for their livelihoods in commercial fishing and related industries. Its key finding is that only 20 miles (not 25, as has been widely reported for several years) of the state s 5,300-mile coastline remain as working-waterfront access. Even more alarming is that 55 percent of those 20 miles are privately held properties,...

The San Francisco-based company (DLM : DLM News , chart , profile , more Last: Delayed quote data Add to portfolio Analyst Create alert Insider Discuss Financials Sponsored by: , , ) also gave profit forecasts for the current quarter and for fiscal 2008 as a whole that may miss analysts' estimates. The San Francisco-based company (DLM : DLM News , chart , profile , more Last: Delayed quote data Add to portfolio Analyst Create alert Insider Discuss Financials Sponsored by: , , ) also gave...

Some people outside Cuba hold on to a stereotype of malnourished Cubans waiting in lines for a few potatoes, but there's ample evidence to the contrary in Havana, where bulging waistlines are stuffed into snug skirts or peek through too-tight guayabera shirts. Waistlines have expanded since the economic crisis of the early 1990s eased on the communist-run island so much so that 30 percent of adults are now overweight, a newly released government study reveals. Some people outside Cuba hold...

Meanwhile, the association will this week respond to an International Labour Organisation report accusing fish farms and food-processing factories of hiring migrant child labour. Besides anti-dumping duties, Thai shrimp exporters face a 100-per-cent bank-guarantee payment in the United States known as a continuous bond. Thailand argued that the US improperly calculated anti-dumping fees by a complicated procedure for determining tariff rates known as "zeroing" One complaint is over the...

The water pumps, located near Tracy, were turned off seven weeks ago in an effort to protect the delta smelt, a threatened fish whose population has reached an all-time low. Sportfishers and conservation groups blame the massive pumps for sucking in smelt and other fish as they migrate down the delta toward Suisun Bay, where they can mature out of the pumps' reach. California water managers also restarted a key pumping station Sunday that had been temporarily shut down to protect the smelt...