61.   By forcing them to swim to land, the crew hoped to avoid being detained by port authorities, the officials said.

62.   Campeche state spokesman Sergio Romero Olivera quoted port authorities in nearby Ciudad del Carmen as identifying the dead American as Jim Vines.

63.   City authorities are studying port rehabilitation plans, said Shichi Takeda of the Kobe port authority.

64.   Clark said he had port authority officials verify he arrived alone and left alone in the places he docked to help prove his claim to the record.

65.   Dhanutirto said he was convinced that the groups would drop their threat after a general review to be held with the port authority next month.

66.   Disruption to shipping around Western Australia is expected to worsen as a result of a state-wide strike by waterfront workers, a port authorities spokeswoman said Friday.

67.   Dr Ling said the Customs Department has also changed its working procedures tremendously to make things simpler for the port authorities.

68.   Eighty percent is generated by the relatively well-managed Port-au-Prince customs house, which operates independent of the port authority.

69.   Fire broke out Wednesday aboard a natural gas tanker on a test sail off the coast of Genoa, killing six technicians and injuring three, port authorities said.

70.   Fire broke out Wednesday aboard a tanker off the coast of Genoa, killing six crew members and injuring at least three, port authorities said.