Hutchison declines to comment, but Modern Terminals, the biggest of the smaller operators, rejects such talk.

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Unlike the Singaporeans, however, both Hutchison and Modern Terminals hope that they can benefit from the rise of new rivals.

ECONOMIST: Ports in a storm

In addition to developing hotels and shopping centers, Wheelock is also involved in cable television and owns more than two-thirds of Modern Terminals, a southern China shipping operator.

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Israel is no longer calling men out of their farm fields and orchards to fight, as it did in 1967 and 1973, but more often pulling them away from computer terminals in modern, globally connected companies that can ill afford their absence.

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Anyone who has flown in or out of those terminals knows that they are hardly models of efficiency, and one reason is the pre-modern U.S. traffic control system.

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