SECURITY CONCERNS REJECTED

With this in mind, the port authority president is to visit Banco do Brasil and BNDES to negotiate loans. The port wants to build four additional berths, of which two will handle grain and two others dry bulk. A decision on how these will be financed is due in April.

The USCG stated that the supposed revelations were “taken out of context”, ignoring the USCG conclusion that no such threat existed.

Just as it appeared that the Dubai controversy would vacate the front pages, lawmakers including Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine flagged up what was described as a “declassified” USCG assessment. A Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing was told that this purported assessment concluded that because of US intelligence gaps, the USCG could not determine whether the United Arab Emirates firm might support terrorists.