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One year after the devastating earthquakes that killed tens of thousands, Turkey has started delivering newly built apartments for locals whose buildings either collapsed or were heavily damaged. "We continue to feel the pain of the lives we lost in the earthquake," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told a delivery ceremony on Saturday in the south-eastern province of Hatay. Hatay, along the Syrian border, was one of the provinces worst hit by the twin quakes on February 6 last year...

Supersized cargo ships will need deeper water and a taller bridge to reach the Port of Savannah in the near future, the chief executive overseeing the major U.S. seaport said Thursday. Griff Lynch, president and CEO of the Georgia Ports Authority, said during his annual “State of the Ports” speech that the $1.9 billion his agency is investing to grow Savannah's cargo handling capacity will need to be met with taxpayer-funded infrastructure upgrades. Lynch said his agency is ...

The Cleveland-based cell therapy and regenerative medicine company said it has secured a patent for a system known as the Secure Integrated Freezer Unit and is looking for a partner to commercialize it.

Everything from diapers to dishwashers and even while they sit here, somebodys paying for it, likely you. the cost of labor keeps going up. speak of the manufacturers we work with cant find workers, they have doubled their wages, even triple their wages, added signing bonuses, they cant find enough people to produce the goods or drive the trucks. >> l.a. sport directors says its not easy getting all the same players on the same page. >> weve been averaging more than 900,000 container units for t...

California coast and what youre looking at is the largest parking lot in the pacific, roughly 60 ships carrying a million containers carrying everything from diapers to dishwashers and even while they sit here, somebody is paying for it, likely you. and the cost of labor keeps going up. >> the manufacturers we work with cant find workers, theyve even doubled their wages, sometimes even tripled their wages, adding signing bonuses, they just cannot find enough people to produce the goods or drive ...

Longer? there isnt enough personnel? i mean, what is the holdup? because youre accustomed to accommodating a lot of ships at one time. >> ship productivity is up 50% since the surge began, thanks to our long shore workforce. the cargo thats loaded and unloaded from each ship in los angeles on average is more than 11,000 container units, and thats the best in the world. we also have seen many trends going through this entirety of the surge, and right now u.s. importers cannot pick up the cargo fa...