Ships fitted with eLoran receivers will now be able to use the backup radio signal to reach port.

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In January 2010, Mann was one of the first reporters to reach Port-au-Prince, Haiti following the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake.

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Dredging to a depth of 41 feet will make way for the 50, 000-ton ships carrying food that are slated to reach the port by July.

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Although almost all the large towns on the Libyan coast are within easy reach of a port and the coastal highway, it has resurrected an old plan to connect them by railway.

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Bellies full, we drove back down PR-184 following the falling sun toward the Caribbean Sea, cruising along the coast to reach Ponce, a colonial port town where long ago pirates raided Spanish ships coming into the harbour.

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Earlier Saturday, pirates sailing a hijacked German cargo ship returned to port after failing to reach the area of the standoff with the Bainbridge, a local journalist told CNN.

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Goods could be transferred from the big container ships arriving at the port to smaller vessels which could then reach dozens of harbours in the southern United States.

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After waiting out the bad weather, the Plastiki took off from its unexpected first port-of-call in Australia early Friday morning with hopes to reach Sydney in the next two days.

CNN: Plastic bottle boat reaches Australia after stormy seas

In Port-au-Prince, a chaotic scene erupted as people clamored to reach the trucks of a World Food Programme convoy carrying water purification tablets, plastic sheeting, collapsible jugs and nutritional biscuits.

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