31.   Vessels of the Finance Guard, a Finance Ministry coast guard unit, and of several southern Italian port authorities joined the search, they said.

32.   We will visit the port, examining its business and then talking to port authorities in Florida and Georgia about its impact.

33.   While Paranagua dockworkers were resumed talks with port authorities hours later, no agreement is expected today, a dockworkers union spokesman said.

34.   With a new railroad slated to arrive soon, port authorities hope to solve the situation.

35.   Word of a strike by Zairian river port authorities and a late afternoon decision by the Congo to close its border with Zaire only intensified the panic.

36.   Police in Bari said two truck drivers, both Greek nationals, were being questioned and a veterinarian from the port authority was examining the surviving animals.

37.   Port authorities from Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam had joined Australia, Malaysian and Philippine naval forces in a vast search for the missing ship.

38.   Port authorities from Singapore to Vietnam have also been alerted to look for the tanker.

39.   Port authorities in Dublin and Rosslare had no immediate assessment of how many boats or trucks might be affected.

40.   Port authorities in southwestern Romania closed off the River Danube to ship traffic Monday after several ships were damaged or stranded by massive ice blocks floating on the river.