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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 05:43 PM
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Suez Canal Still Operating as Service Workers Strike
Source: Bloomberg

Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Shipping on Egypt’s Suez Canal, used to carry about 8 percent of global seaborne trade, is transiting on schedule after service workers linked to the waterway began striking, the Suez Canal Authority said.
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“This doesn’t have anything to do with Suez Canal traffic and the canal is operating normally,” Mohamed Motair, director of companies at the Suez Canal Authority, said by phone. The striking employees belong to seven service companies linked to the waterway and are not involved in operations, he said


Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-08/suez-canal-still-operating-as-service-workers-strike.html
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 05:47 PM
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1. Bloomberg is a consolidation
Edited on Tue Feb-08-11 05:52 PM by RandomThoughts
he is a whiny piece of shit.


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