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  • Deal gives Dubai firm control of 23 U.S. ports - Eller lobbied Schumer - Causing this uproar

    03/10/2006 7:37:43 AM PST · by Solson · 119 replies · 2,416+ views
    Buffalo News ^ | 3/4/2006 | Douglas Turner
    WASHINGTON - A Dubai-owned company will control 23 American ports - not six - as a result of the deal approved by a Bush administration panel in January. The takeover of the British company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. involves almost every major Atlantic seaport from Portland, Maine, to Miami and along the entire Gulf Coast, according to an attorney fighting the deal. The list includes Port Arthur and Beaumont, Texas, which have handled about 40 percent of the war materiel the Army has shipped to combat theaters in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also includes Norfolk, Va., home to...