1.   Where there should be the bustle of port activity, scores of fishermen sit idly, playing cards, repairing nets, waiting.

2.   Also, the port authorities have taken necessary measures to ensure round-the-clock port activities, they said.

3.   Costs at ports have gone down since the private sector has been allowed to handle port activities and shipping services.

4.   In a move to diversify its products, CN Asia is also going into port related activities.

5.   In Izmir, port activities ground to a halt after longshoremen refused to work.

6.   An action by seamen has paralysed all port activity since Monday.

7.   Besides providing more jobs and boosting port activity in Rotterdam, the line will help reduce goods traffic on Dutch roads.

8.   Dockworkers in Lagos have called off a strike which paralysed port activities for three days this week, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported Friday.

9.   Their boats had closed down or greatly reduced port activity for a week to press their claims.

10.   The strike disrupted port activity in Karachi, and cargo could not be loaded on several ships, a statement from the Karachi Goods Carriers Association said.