The drivers were protesting low wages, increased fuel prices — the government recently raised diesel prices by five percent — and higher fees imposed by port operators.
Customs duties were also imposed in ports.
Entry was limited, gear controlled, area and seasonal closures were used, fish and mesh size minima imposed, and ports for operation and landing of fish were fixed for each boat (Riley 1982).
There is some gentle ribbing about her being the farmers' pin-up girl, but even the more taciturn rural types seem somewhat in awe of her, crossing the street to shake her hand and praising her authoritative handling of the foot and mouth crisis, imposing restrictions on local ports, despite contrary advice from London.
A short walk along the north side of the port to the imposing 12th-century Fort St.-Jean St.-Jeanu takeso high, narrow footbridges.
Bennett became a lightning rod for criticism due to her regular shopping expeditions to the most expensive shops in Europe, seemingly contemptuous of the poverty outside the iron gates of Haiti's imposing presidential palace in central Port-au-Prince.
Since March this year, bombing raids and a blockade of ports imposed by the Saudi-led coalition of Sunni Gulf states have crippled much of Yemen.
On top of all this, UN agencies have warned of mass famine, brought on by the blockade of Yemen's sea and air ports imposed by the Saudi coalition, which is preventing vital food, fuel and medical supplies from entering the country.
Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who represents the area, calls the growth of such yards in residential neighborhoods one of the worst abuses imposed by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation's first- and second-largest seaports, respectively.
Ukraine has accused Russia of imposing an "economic blockade" on its ports in the Sea of Azov by blocking ships from entering the Kerch strait.
