Stagnant Water.VENEZUELAN PORTS SUDDENLY SEEM MIRED mire n. 1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog. 2. Deep slimy soil or mud. 3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty. v. IN STAGNANT WATERS. PUERTO CABELLO Puerto Cabello (pwār`tō käbā`yō), city (1990 pop. 128,825), N Venezuela, a port on the Caribbean Sea. An important Venezuelan port, it ships meat, coffee, cacao, dyewoods, and copper ores. SAVED Venezuela last year when flooding shut down La Guaira La Guaira (lä gwī`rä), city (1990 pop. 23,831), capital of Vargas state, N Venezuela, on the Caribbean Sea NW of Caracas. It is the principal international port of Venezuela; cacao, coffee, and tobacco are the chief exports. , the country's largest port. But now the No.2 Venezuelan port has been forced to delay a plan to build a huge container terminal A container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transhipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transhipment may be between ships and land vehicles, for example trains or trucks, in which case the terminal is described as a on a site known locally as Area No.7. The Puerto Cabello port authority wanted to build a US$386 million terminal to handle up to 700,000 20-foot containers, about 50% more than it handles now, with a pier depth of about 40 feet. International companies were more than Interested in doing the deal. But the Venezuelan Navy and Dianca Shipyard, which would be neighbors to the new terminal, claim the plan for the government-owned site would put national security at risk, The port then started looking at alternative sites. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , federal government investigators have launched an investigation Into corruption at customs in Puerto Cabello and La Guaira. The probe shut down shipping in late January, ruining at least US$250,000 in banana exports alone during the first week of the investigation. While the National Association of Banana Producers promised to raise a fuss, the stench of still waters seems to be growing at Venezuela's ports. |
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