Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said its cargo plane with 12 tonnes of medical supplies had been turned away from the congested Port-au-Prince airport three times since Sunday.

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Dalrymple Bay, which is fed by state-owned railways, may be congested, but Port Hedland, in western Australia, certainly is not.

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