Toxic waste under UK flag heading for Thailand
NewsAn environmental watchdog has alerted authorities to an illegal consignment of poisonous industrial waste heading for a Thai port.
…Thai PM plea fails
Despite a plea to the Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (see WorldCargo News March 2003, p12), Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has failed in its bid to win a 30 year concession to manage and operate the recently completed C-3 container terminal at Thailand’s Laem Chabang port.
The world’s largest private port operator wrote to Thaksin asking him to launch a probe into the tender process after the HPH bid was rejected even though it was the highest at Baht24 bill (US$567 mill).
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