Ecuador was selected to participate as the pilot country in the region in the UNODC Global Container Control Programme aimed at reducing drug trafficking using containers in major seaports.

(i) The establishment of multi agency enforcement units at selected container ports to identify and screen sea containers used for the smuggling of illicit drugs and other contraband

In response to the use of sea containers to facilitate transnational crimes such as trafficking in drugs, weapons, chemical waste, human beings and proceeds of crime, UNODC has launched a Global Container Control Programme to support port control measures in developing countries.

In addition, to meet the challenge of trafficking by sea container, the Office has launched a global initiative to establish effective controls over containers to prevent their use for illicit drug trafficking, precursor chemical diversion and other illicit activity.

Last year, China s exports grew by roughly 6.2 , and container throughput completed at China s above scale ports increased by 6.8 year on year.

Use of X ray machines to inspect containers.

Customs officers inspect all containers before loading.

The corridors will provide a more direct transport route for oil and liquefied gas from Africa and the Persian Gulf, while minimizing exposure to sea lanes policed by the United States Navy.

As a result, there was transport of commodities between Roman regions, but increased with the rise of Roman maritime trade in the 2nd century BC.

) During the War of Independence, Turkish naval forces transported 220,000 tons of weapons, ammunition and equipment to the land forces in Anatolia.

All containers will have prominent external markings for their quick identification.

The other disappointment has been the government s failure to get the US to move its Marine airbase out of Okinawa.

Guixar for handling containers, 769 meters long with a railway connection.

45. Welcomes the adoption of criteria and guidelines on the transfer of marine technology by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission See IOC XXII 2 Annex 12 rev.

Some of this relates to North Korea s nuclear weapons and a concern that the US will not adequately represent Japan s interests (such as accounting for Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea years ago.)

Some delegations emphasized the need to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that sensitive sea areas are protected from the transport of radioactive materials by sea.

The promotion of the flow of scientific data and information, and the transfer of knowledge resulting from marine scientific research, especially to developing States, is therefore needed.

The advent of container shipping, with its need for large container handling spaces adjacent to the shipping berths, has made working piers obsolete for the handling of general cargo, although some still survive for the handling of passenger ships or bulk cargos.

The container terminal at the Dar es Salaam port has been modernized with cargo scanning facilities.

We believe that building States' fisheries management capacity is important to ensure effective control and sustainable use of their resources and the transfer of marine technology.

The examples of the arms embargo violations presented below are based on case studies developed by the Monitoring Group.

French Socialists should recall their school physics lesson about communicating vessels when a homogeneous liquid is poured into a set of connected containers, it settles at the same level in all of them, regardless of their shape and volume.

Marine environment, marine resources and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

Marine environment and marine resources

For example, rising tensions with Iran could compel Europe to deploy its navies to form a blockade around the Persian Gulf, in order to ensure the transit of oil.

For example, there are security questions related to strengthening the alliance between Japan and the US, including the relocation of the Futenma Air Station, the base of operations for the US Marine Corps on Okinawa.

Marine environment, marine resources, marine biodiversity and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

Marine environment, marine resources and sustainable development

Another reason for retaining the second sentence is that containers are subject to specific regulation elsewhere in the draft.

Given the reduced role of aviation in the shipment of arms to Somalia and the emergence of the sea and road as the preferred modes of transport, the Somali coastline and its borders with its neighbours have become linchpins of the entire arms embargo violations.

XI. Marine environment, marine resources and sustainable development

(xx) Non liner transportation means any transportation that is not liner transportation.

It has six facilities the main cargo terminal, the container terminal, the ferry terminal, the oil terminal, the passenger terminal and the port fleet terminal.

The Port Authority is expanding its container yard and was planning to spend 100 million in reconstruction activities up to the year 2005.

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The navy did not sport the royal titles common with other European navies like the British Royal Navy.

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They underlined that it was necessary to consider the specific needs of rare and vulnerable marine ecosystems and habitats, as well as marine species, such as sea turtles, sharks and sea birds.

Noting that recapture of methyl bromide from small scale fumigations in containers is already carried out in several countries,

The largest unit size may be the whole Navy or Admiralty.

These operate under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Navy and Marines.

We must strike a balance between marine resources exploitation and the conservation of the marine environment.

The Royal Bahrain Naval Force (RBNF) (previously known as Bahrain Defense Force, Naval Branch), is the maritime branch of the Bahrain Defense Force.

Emphasizing the need to ensure access of decision makers to advice and information on marine science and technology, as well as to the transfer of technology and support for the production and diffusion of factual information and knowledge for end users, as appropriate,