Transshipment Point News Today

Careful. i want to move on to cnns sam kiley in ukraine. explain where you are and what were learning about fighting in the southern part of the country. >> reporter: im essentially at a crossroads due south of kyiv, about 160 miles, 200 kilometers. this is a transshipment point where refugees from kyiv, mariupol, kherson, these russian-speaking towns that have been hit so hard by the russian invasion. this is the town through which they come before they head off to other european destinations i...

It is the busiest transshipment point on the planet. singapore has fully embraced globalization. and thats proved in their case very rewarding. >> donald: singapore is an outsized economic port primarily because its so attractive to foreign entrepreneurs primarily in the form of multinational corporations. so right from the start, the economic strategy was always to attract foreign capital. >> anthony: donald low is an economist who spent over ten years researching and writing about singapores u...

Trinidad continues to be a major transshipment point for drug dealers to get that product out to north america and europe. so you find now the explosion of violence that we have is for those that are involved locally with the drug trafficking, theres fight for territory. >> anthony: an estimated 3.5 billion dollars worth of narcotics move through the caribbean each year. trinidads porous borders, busy port, proximity to venezuela and the inevitable corruption that comes with numbers and threats ...

Of the biggest businesses in the world. trinidad continues to be a major transshipment point for drug dealers to get that product out to north america and europe. so you find now the explosion of violence that we have is for those that are involved locally with the drug trafficking, theres fight for territory. >> anthony: an estimated 3.5 billion dollars worth of narcotics move through the caribbean each year. trinidads porous borders, busy port, proximity to venezuela and the inevitable corrupt...

>> anthony: one-fifth of the worlds shipping containers move through the port of singapore. it is the busiest transshipment point on the planet. singapore has fully embraced globalization. and thats proved in their case very rewarding. >> donald: singapore is an outsized economic port primarily because its so attractive to foreign entrepreneurs primarily in the form of multinational corporations. so right from the start, the economic strategy was always to attract foreign capital. >> anthony: do...

Trinidad continues to be a major transshipment point for drug dealers to get that product out to north america and europe. so you find now the explosion of violence that we have is for those that are involved locally with the drug trafficking, theres fight for territory. >> anthony: an estimated 3.5 billion dollars worth of narcotics move through the caribbean each year. trinidads porous borders, busy port, proximity to venezuela and the inevitable corruption that comes with numbers and threats ...

>> anthony: one-fifth of the worlds shipping containers move through the port of singapore. it is the busiest transshipment point on the planet. singapore has fully embraced globalization. and thats proved in their case very rewarding. >> donald: singapore is an outsized economic port primarily because its so attractive to foreign entrepreneurs primarily in the form of multinational corporations. so right from the start, the economic strategy was always to attract foreign capital. >> anthony: do...

Prosecutor an informant told him there was a 20 thousand dollar contract on his life. >> mark: they had people following me over a period of time, some law enforcement officers and so on. so my company put me on a plane, i stayed under an assumed name for about three months in a location outside of trinidad. >> anthony: generally speaking when people want you dead, they get you. why are you back? >> mark: i guess to quote great us journalist walter cronkite "its not what you want people to know,...

Those that are involved locally with the drug trafficking, theres fight for territory. >> anthony: an estimated 3.5 billion dollars worth of narcotics move through the caribbean each year. trinidads porous borders, busy port, proximity to venezuela and the inevitable corruption that comes with numbers and threats like that make it, unfortunately, an ideal transshipment point. >> anthony: how bad is high level corruption alleged to be? >> mark: fairly deep, i think that the complicity comes acros...

World. trinidad continues to be a major transshipment point for drug dealers to get that product out to north america and europe. so you find now the explosion of violence that we have is for those that are involved locally with the drug trafficking, theres fight for territory. >> anthony: an estimated 3.5 billion dollars worth of narcotics move through the caribbean each year. trinidads porous borders, busy port, proximity to venezuela and the inevitable corruption that comes with numbers and t...