Dubai is increasingly the hub for companies investing across Africa, and home to domestic powerhouses like Dubai Ports World, which is operating ports from Djibouti to Senegal, and Emirates Airlines, the only airline capable of flying non-stop from Dubai to every major city in the world.
In a debate reminiscent of concerns raised over Dubai Ports World taking control of key US ports, some airlines and unions say that giving foreigners more of a say in the running of US airlines could be a threat to national security.
The House Appropriations Committee has attached an amendment to a Pentagon spending bill that would stop Dubai Ports World from operating the terminals at six American ports.
Remember the howls from protectionist corners last year when Dubai Ports World nearly took over operations at U.S. ports?
Decades of heavy infrastructure investment built what is today one of the world's busiest ports at Jebel Ali, and the world's most transited airport.
Way before the current furor over Dubai Ports World, commentator Terrance Smith visited Dubai.
The recent Dubai Ports World fiasco only looked like a security issue.
The company, Dubai Ports World, would do so by purchasing a British concern, Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ("P and O").
In 2005, he was the only American news anchor to cover the Dubai Ports World story on the ground in the United Arab Emirates.
Politics being the art of the possible, it is time to recognize that the Dubai Ports World deal is neither strategically sensible nor politically doable.
Dubai Ports World is selling its interest in six U.S. port terminal operations it acquired in a deal for a U.K.-based terminal operator earlier this year.
Shares in Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation swelled by more than 38% in London trading when rumors circulated of an offer by state-owned Dubai Ports World .
Given such considerations, the question occurs: How could even a stacked deck like the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States find it possible to approve the Dubai Ports World's transaction?
After the Dubai Ports World fiasco lawmakers have harbor protection on the brain. (When the United Arab Emirates-owned company took over six U.S. ports, it touched off a political firestorm and was forced to put them up for sale.) Congress is turning its attention to the screening of seaborne cargo.
Dock workers in Hong Kong have ended a 40-day strike that affected one of the world's busiest ports.
The price is more than twice what DP World paid to buy ports in its previous deal.
The city-state boasts low corruption and one of the world's busiest ports.
Since container shipping accounts for 52% of the total value of the world's seaborne trade, according to Lloyd's Maritime Intelligence Unit, Forbes used it to rank the world's busiest ports.
The other office unveiled by Mr Morgan was one run by the Graig Group, which was established in Cardiff in 1919 when the Welsh capital was one of the world's leading ports.
Konrad is a USCG licensed Master Mariner and since graduating from SUNY Maritime College, has sailed a variety of ships from ports around the world.
Six of the world's 10 busiest ports are located in China, when measured in terms of cargo shipped in standard containers, or TEUs (20-foot equivalent units).
The Port of New York and New Jersey is one of the busiest ports in the world and thus a major commercial artery for global commerce.
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Its 29 ports around the world would help Singapore's PSA, the second-biggest container port operator in the world, to gain ground on the industry leader, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
Ports around the world are being upgraded to accommodate them.
Rangoon was one of the world's most vibrant ports a key link in the trade route from Calcutta to Shanghai and a place that lured royals, celebrities, artists and adventurers.
He is a USCG licensed ship captain of Unlimited Tonnage and, since graduating from S UNY Maritime College, has sailed a variety of ships from ports around the world.
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As Daniel Brebner of Deutsche Bank points out, that is considerably more than the annual capacity of Richards Bay in South Africa or Newcastle in Australia, the world's biggest coal ports.
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Its 29 ports around the world would help Singapore's PSA, the second-biggest container port operator in the world, to gain ground on the industry leader, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. of Hong Kong.
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