White buses drop workers off at the export companies and cargo trucks line up to cross the bridges that straddle the concrete canal built to direct the flow of the Rio Grande River.

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He'd managed to line up a cargo in Alexandria, and he needed to get us there fast.

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The 1, 728-km line will one day carry 30m tonnes of cargo a year.

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