In exchange for using Japan as a base for Asian oil trading, Japan now has priority to purchase rights to up to 4m barrels of immediately accessible crude.
The encounter a month ago was the culmination of a feud between villagers in this hamlet of just 130 people and an interloper — real name: Sergei Lebedev — who they believed had taken up residence here to operate a base for the drug trade.
The uninhabited island cluster of Cabo Verde was first discovered by the Portuguese in the 16th century and used as a base for the slave trade.
"While the monthly data are extremely volatile, the narrowing in the trade deficit in October sets a solid base for trade in the fourth quarter," said Scott Bowman at the consultancy Capital Economics.
The British took the place from China in 1842, and made it a base for dominating South China trade.
The settlement's growth, halted by King Philip's (Indian) War (1675 76), was given impetus in 1680, when Pardon Tillinghast built a wharf that became a base for the thriving triangular trade in molasses, slaves, and rum between Africa, the West Indies, and the American colonies.
In April 1829, Nicolls was appointed Superintendent of Fernando Po (now Bioko), a tropical island immediately off the coast of Africa, which the West Africa Squadron used as a base for operations against the slave trade.
Ville-Marie became a centre for the fur trade and a base for further French exploration.
China needs Britain's hi-tech knowledge in areas such as life sciences, and London, the world's biggest foreign exchange trading centre, as a base for its currency's internationalisation.
Mrs. Kargul-Smalewska, in fact, was one of the economic development officials in charge of finding a new use for the abandoned airport before she decided to form her own company and use the base for trade fairs and other purposes.
