11.   The programme of privatization involved the sale of the national airline, telecommunications company and shipping line to local and foreign investors.

12.   The shipping line believes the Seaforth facility is necessary to the maintenance of the line as an asset.

13.   And the shipping lines are already installing equipment to clean up their discharges better.

14.   As the financial pressure intensifies on shipping lines and the businesses that depend on them, talk in the industry has turned to mergers, acquisitions and even bankruptcies.

15.   Because the big ships are so costly, the shipping lines want to keep them moving and reduce the number of ports of call, the Port Authority said.

16.   A tentative accord was reached hours before a ban to keep three Japanese shipping lines out of U.S. ports was to take effect.

17.   Albert J. Herberger, the Maritime administrator, said the new bill aimed to offset some of the cost advantages of foreign shipping lines.

18.   But the question is how the shipping lines get those goods there.

19.   Critics say the licensing practices have made Japanese port calls prohibitively expensive for U.S. shipping lines.

20.   Dinsmore and Port Commissioner Paige Miller are expected to attend the handover ceremonies at the invitation of the Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas shipping line.