Besides these two countries, the emerging economic giant India also wants access to Chittagong port to send goods to its seven north-eastern states.

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For a longer-term solution, they decided to send a catering rig from food services company Aramark to Port Arthur.

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South Sudan, for years the largest oil producer in the region and locked in an oil dispute with Sudan, now wants to send crude out through Kenya on a pipeline to a proposed new port in Lamu (see map).

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Russia, with vast coal reserves thousands of miles from the nearest port, might yet build the infrastructure needed to send its coal to the world market.

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Or, as he did for one group of clients delayed in transit, send an employee to stand on a footbridge to keep a ferry in port until they could get there.

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