Dubai Ports World uses [Israeli Shipping Co.] Zim connection in US deal

Globes [online] ^ | 26 Feb 06 | Ran Dagoni

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

“It's the largest shipping company in Israel. And the president of Zim is very close to our company and supports us”

Dubai Ports World, the combined United Emirates (UAE) port management company for the Gulf, has stepped up its challenge to win the operating rights of six major ports in the US, by claiming it has strong business ties with Israeli shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd..

Dubai Ports World has acquired the veteran British company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation (P&O), which owned the operating rights to six US ports in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami and New Orleans. The projected transfer of ownership to the Gulf port operator met with strong opposition from legislators in both parties and both houses of Congress on Capitol Hill. However, US President George W. Bush said he would veto any bill that aimed to block the transfer of the management of the ports to the Arab company.

Dubai Ports World has launched an intensive lobbying campaign to soften opposition on Capitol Hill, recruiting top-flight American lobbyists and politicians, including former Senator and Republican presidential candidate Robert Dole. The company also dispatched deputy CEO Ted Bilkey, an American citizen, who gave interviews in the media and met with legislators in an attempt to push the deal through.

Asked in an interview last week with “CNN” reporter Wolf Blitzer whether Dubai Ports World was doing business with Israel while the UAE refused to recognize Israel, Bilkey replied, “One of our very sound customers is Zim line. It's the largest shipping company. And the president of that company is very close to our company and supports us, because we have good relations with all of our clients.

” We handle their operations in a number of ports throughout the world because it's good commercial business for us. They wouldn't come to us unless we did a good job,” added Bilkey.

Blitzer: “Does the emir know this?”

Bilkey: “Absolutely.”

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on February 26, 2006

[Logical me]

Think this distinction is difficult to some FReeper to understand, try this.

What is the difference from managing a terminal and total port takeover?

[Logical me]

Think this distinction is difficult to some FReeper to understand, try this.

What is the difference from managing a terminal and total port takeover?

[Logical me]

Sorry for the double posting. Sometimes Earthlink just disconnects and have to log on again and never know if posting goes through.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

We might even want to just do a package deal and let them have the original 13 so long as they agree to take DC off our hands.

The real issue here is not who gets the port operation business.

The winning issue is why there are no American companies in this business!!

And what can we do to resurrect the American port industry.

Sometimes this kind of gut reaction is what can take the issue to the next level.

[bert]

....Why should we pay taxes to build infrastruture that profits a foreign company ....

You didn't really ask that question did you?


I mean is your vision so restricted that it can't see that world trade involves foreign companies?

Get a grip.

The money you personally save at Walmart will more than offset the very minor portion of your taxes used. Don't forget that user fees are collected to supplement your meager offering.

[Sprite518]

I still do not like this deal, and I will tell you why.

1) This transaction is not between two private companies. The UAE company is owned by the government of UAE. Therefore, we have a private company from the UK that is selling to a country (not a private company as some want us to believe).

2) UAE still has it out for Israel (BIG RED FLAG). They take the same position as Hamas. Basically they want to finish off Hitler's job.

3) Iran is a problem. Do I really need to explain? UAE has been going out of its way to keep help Iran with normal trade status

4) Jimmy Carter likes this deal (another flag)


If UAE is threatening our friendship over this deal, then they were never really our friends from the get go.

[ozoneliar]

Israel has been caught spying on the US and attacked a US ship at sea. Would the Dems squeal if an Israeli company was handed the port deal?

There are certainly better reasons to trust an Israeli company over the UAE.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

There are certainly better reasons to trust an Israeli company over the UAE.

Exactly.

Why not shop around for a better deal which includes incentives for a domestic company?

[ozoneliar]

Why not shop around for a better deal which includes incentives for a domestic company?

I'm 100% with you. Outsourcing of manufacturing, and managment of US interests will destroy the US.

[ARCADIA]

The money you personally save at Walmart will more than offset the very minor portion of your taxes used.

Don't inject Walmart into this; believe me it does nothing to help you promote your globalist fantasies.

[bert]

.....Don't inject Walmart into this.....

Reality's tuff aint't it. I live and breath trade and it is not fantasy. Everything you have, your whole life is dependant on trade.

[ARCADIA]

Everything you have, your whole life is dependant on trade.

That's odd; I seem to recall that most of used to be marked MADE IN THE USA.

[Canedawg]

Excellent points made in your post. Too many red flages here.

[Canedawg]

Excellent points made in your post. Too many red flags here.

[Stellar Dendrite]

http://www.uaeinteract.com/news/default.asp?ID=324

UAE urges world community to force Israel dismantle wall

"The United Arab Emirates has urged the world community, particularly the UN and other parties of the Quadruple Committee, to act promptly and firmly in order to protect the Palestinian people and force Israel to dismantle the separation wall."


http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/OT0805.pdf

PAGE 8 of this pdf: Two weeks after 9/11, the UAE crown prince warned Washington not to strike “innocent” Muslims in Afghanistan, but instead focus on “Israeli terrorism.”

http://www.uaeinteract.com/news/default.asp?ID=324
UAE condemns Israel's actions on occupied land
posted on 06/12/2005
"The Middle East Region, unlike any part of the world, is still suffering from Israel's occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories since 1967", Ambassador Abdul Aziz bin Nasr Al Shamsi, the UAE Permanent Envoy to the UN




"2-18-2006: UAE, Palestine to set up a joint investment firm (Hamas)"
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/business/2006/February/business_February391.xml&section=business


http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21413

Welcoming Terror to US Ports

On July 27, 2005, the Palestinian Information Center carried a public HAMAS statement thanking the UAE for it’s “unstinting support.” The statement said: “We highly appreciate his highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (UAE president) in particular and the UAE people and government in general for their limitless support…that contributed more to consolidating our people's resoluteness in the face of the Israeli occupation".

The HAMAS statement continued: "the sisterly UAE had… never hesitated in providing aid for our Mujahid people pertaining to rebuilding their houses demolished by the IOF… The UAE also spared no effort to offer financial and material aids to the Palestinian charitable societies." Indeed, as documented by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S), HAMAS charitable societies,” are known as integral parts of the HAMAS infrastructure, and are outlawed by Israel and the U.S.




UAE condemns Israel's violations of human rights
http://www.uaeinteract.com/news/default.asp?cntDisplay=30&ID=324



UAE president sends to the UN letter of solidarity with Palestinian people
http://www.uaeinteract.com/news/default.asp?cntDisplay=20&ID=324

[Stellar Dendrite]

see #35

[Canedawg]

Verrrrry interesting

[zook]

Apparently, either one means that the entire armed forces of the UAE will be hitting our shores soon. Reminds me of "The Mouse that Roared."

[George Smiley]

I wondered what had become of Zim.

[AliVeritas]

FYI, Guess What?

Saudi Shipping Company “Controls” 9 US Ports

http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/meet-the-national-shipping-company-of-saudi-arabia/

Funny, Corzine didn't have a problem with it re: Jersey.