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| | PUERTO RICO HERALD: Prospect Of Base Closure Raises Possibility: Roosevelt Roads As Transshipment Port? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | By selecting Ponce as the site for the new transshipment port--discarding Guayanilla as a possible "secondary" location in the future--the current administration has settled for a less than ideal alternative, with very much limited scope and area (only about 1,000 acres), for what a true world-class transshipment port should be. |
 | | Transshipment activities, if the port is truly a megaport, are expected to create more than 20,000 direct and indirect jobs in related industries. |
 | | While the transshipment port itself will create between 500 and 1,000 direct jobs by the time it is completely developed, the bulk of the job creation (up to 20,000 new jobs) will come from these industries. |
| www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n04/CBProspectClosRosRds-en.shtml (1504 words) |
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