51.   Barring that, they said, Britain should be prepared to act unilaterally to enact new rules for ferries using its ports.

52.   Customs official Harald Andersen at the Vadsoe port said that Russian trawlers used the ports in northern Norway as free ports, which they are not.

53.   When the French port of Calais is temporarily blocked, Belgian ports are used instead.

54.   Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said recently that studies have been started into ways in which foreign shipping companies using the port could become shareholders.

55.   South Africa uses the port, at present only operating at a quarter of its capacity, for export, mostly steel, and import, mostly oil.