71.   The transport ministry in November directed that all government imports should come through Malaysian ports rather than through a rival port in neighbouring Singapore.

72.   The transport ministry said Friday its Marine Pollution Control Unit had dispatched seven aircraft to spray dispersant chemicals on the slick.

73.   They added that the transport ministry had already opened an investigation into the cause of the trouble.

74.   The transport ministry confirmed that his name was on a shortlist of four or five contenders.

75.   The transport ministry is expected to send a senior official to Washington in early April to explain the agreement.

76.   The transport ministry said it had no information about the airspeed or the distance separating the aircraft before anti-collision manoeuvres were taken.

77.   The visit is officially aimed at sealing two technical accords, initialled last year, on road transport and cooperation between the Iranian transport ministry and French supply ministry.

78.   Two experts from the French accident-inquiry unit, part of the transport ministry, also arrived to begin a technical inquiry, ministry officials said.

79.   Three religious parties are in the right-wing coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where they control six ministries, including the transport ministry.

80.   It urged the transport ministry to promote deregulation for smoothing aviation business.