Sentence examples for overseas ports from inspiring English sources
The Department of Homeland Security has stepped up inspections of goods and people on the border and at overseas ports.
Finally, programs aimed at preventing nuclear smuggling were cut by nearly 30 percent, directly limiting America's ability to expand detection of nuclear materials at key overseas ports.
Mining, rail, port, and shipping costs may vary greatly for different overseas buyers, and the combined cost may represent more than one-half of the delivered price of coal to overseas ports.
The Navy fired a destroyer commander and a top aide and removed eight sailors from their Norfolk-based ship after misbehavior by the crew in overseas ports that included drunk and disorderly conduct.
He argued that the administration has taken numerous steps to improve domestic security, including expanding pharmaceutical stockpiles, stationing inspectors at overseas ports -- including in Shanghai, it was announced today -- and pressing corporations to improve security screening of employees.
The proposal with the best chance of success, experts say, is theoretically simple but would be difficult to arrange: take the inspection to overseas ports, before the ships ever begin their trips to America.
We would need to expand access to overseas port facilities for ships that stayed abroad, for maintenance and resupply.
The minister, Qamar Zaman Kaira, said that control of the port at Gwadar, near Pakistan's border with Iran, would pass from the Port of Singapore Authority to a company he identified as China Overseas Port Holdings, in a move that had been anticipated for some time.
The U.S. lands 6 million cargo containers a year, including transshipments, or containers en route to another overseas port.
The Department of Homeland Security has a program to place American inspectors overseas at ports like Rotterdam and Singapore.
The coal will be transported by rail from the mine to the coast and shipped overseas through ports that will be expanded by dredging 3 million tonnes of seabed from the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef.
