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Swansea casts its net wide to fill BP's gap.
(From Lloyds List)
ALTHOUGH Associated British Ports saw steel exports double last year through the ports of Swansea and Newport, Swansea continues its struggle to recover from BP's decision to stop importing and exporting chemicals through South Wales.
However, new business has come from exports of Welsh logs to Finland, under an agreement with Finnish paper giant UPM-Kymmene Ltd to export 'significant volumes' of timber from local forests on 3,000 tonne vessels, says Swansea and Port Talbot deputy port manager, Peter O'Brien.
'We hope that a second company will export Welsh logs out of Swansea in the next few months, and this will boost our volumes in 2005,' Mr O'Brien says.
'This year, we have also attracted new business with EGL Carbon Ltd, which is importing coal from Russia to supply Corus and other local companies, with shipments of some ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 11, 2007 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald November 10, 2005 700+ words
Lt. Robert M. Cabral of Swansea, a Swansea police officer, died Saturday at Charlton Memorial Hospital...San Antonio, Texas, he graduated from Case High School in Swansea in 1971 and Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. After...
