And on May 25th the resources ministry endorsed the idea that Russia might want to take control of the giant Sakhalin projects from Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil .Oneresult of this paralysis is an oil-export bottleneck.
India's manufacturing sector is expanding but its ports and highways still represent a bottleneck for exports, while other developing countries lack the population and infrastructure to expand quickly to offset any disruption of supply from China.
C1 Ports from Louisiana to Florida remain closed, slowing imports and exports and creating bottlenecks that are likely to lead to delays in production of hundreds of products and higher prices for consumers.
There is also an urgent need to take quick political decisions to remove export-related regulatory bottlenecks.
To put it in words that the press representative would never use, so long as the Department of Energy permitting process is so absurdly slow — thus creating a government bottleneck that restrains "unfettered" exports — Dow and Liveris have gotten exactly what they've been seeking: limited exports and plenty of cheap domestic gas to help fuel their profits.
For the oil companies, the pipelines promise to bypass bottlenecks in the existing export pipeline system.
Insurgent attacks on pipelines in Iraq reminded America that Kiev, not the Kremlin, controls the bottleneck of Russian energy exports.
Both men want more export pipelines built in Russia to ease bottlenecks, but where Mr. Khodorkovsky has advocated private projects to compete with Transneft, the state pipeline monopoly, Mr. Alekperov has avoided challenging Transneft.
Those in Quito complained that their exports had to pass through the monopolistic bottleneck of Guayaquil, which acted as a traditional middleman and, by adding to the price of Sierra products, reduced their competitiveness in the world market.
Adulterants, mycotoxins pollution and pesticide residues are "bottlenecks" that affect use and export of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
