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Fallout from UAE port deal starts

Posted by: ST on March 10, 2006 at 3:06 pm » 41 Comments

…. and I’m not just talking about the President’s low(er) polling numbers. Some of the latest headlines: US, UAE postpone trade talks after DP World furore Arab Firms May Reconsider U.S. Investments Dubai ports debacle darkens Gulf investors’ mood I’m having a hard time moving on from this. Can ya tell? Update: Here’s another: Scuttled [...]

 

Overseas Firms Entrenched in Ports

Posted by: ST on March 10, 2006 at 9:12 am » 47 Comments

So reads the headline in today’s Washington Post: The decision by Dubai Ports World to abandon its effort to take over terminal operations at six U.S. seaports was a victory for the numerous politicians who have thundered in recent days that foreign companies have no business handling U.S. port operations. But foreign firms remain deeply [...]