U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, Coast Guard members and a Carnival team boarded the ship before it arrived in port to help speed efforts to get passengers off as quickly as possible, he said.

CNN: Crippled cruise ship returns; passengers happy to be back

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, Coast Guard members and a Carnival team were expected to board the ship before it arrived in port to help speed efforts to get passengers off as quickly as possible, he said.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Included in the wide array of impressive features is a high-speed FireWire port (Apple says the iPod can transfer a full CD in ten seconds), a five-gigabyte hard drive and an advanced rechargeable battery that Apple claims will last ten hours on an hour's charge.

FORBES: Apple Unwraps IPod

Because these devices are powered by USB 3.0 controllers, users will be able to transfer bandwidth-intensive content such as photos, music and video to and from their USB 3.0 built-in port laptops and PCs at record speed, even up to 10 times faster than the transfer speed of current USB 2.0 devices.

ENGADGET: Dane-Elec comes clean with external USB 3.0 HDDs / SSDs

The NETGEAR D6300 WiFi Modem Router also includes a separate gigabit Ethernet WAN port for connecting to either high-speed cable or fiber optic broadband.

ENGADGET: Netgear D6300 mates 802.11ac WiFi with ADSL, risks one heck of a mismatch

And for months the only way in and out of lower Manhattan for most NJ commuters was a ferry ride that instead of going directly across to the WFC was re-routed to South Port and forced to go at row boat speed.

FORBES: 9/11 Stories: 'No One Talks About That'

After spreading along rivers in late 2010 the number of cases exploded in the coastal town of Saint Marc - before moving on, with deadly speed, into the slums of the capital Port au Prince.

BBC: Latin America & Caribbean

Many of Sky's set-top boxes have a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) port on the back that can link to a high-speed net service.

BBC: Turning on to interaction

The calm will now be shattered, they fear, by the construction of a ring road intended to draw traffic away from the chaotic city and speed goods to and from Santos, Brazil's biggest port.

ECONOMIST: Ancestral claims and modern interests

Coleman said the Port Authority hasn't felt pressure from families of September 11 victims to speed up the process.

CNN: Creating 9/11 memorials a slow process