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Cincinnati Customs officers stop drug smugglers
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Oil import decreases by 38% to $5.1b in 8 months
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Profit of port of Tallinn decreases 21% in 2015
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Rouhani’s visit to strengthen bilateral ties: IPR
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US Customs discovers heroin worth $198,400
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US Customs seizes meth worth $72k
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Port of Oakland loaded import volume surges 89.7%
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Global Ports traffic, revenue hit by Russia economic troubles
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Russian MTS predicts 4% rise in 2016 revenue, margin pressure
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£2billion black hole in Scottish tax revenue
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Australia’s vegetable industry hit by cheap imports
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Nearly 40,000 illegal cigarettes seized from ‘hidey-holes’ in stores across Warwickshire
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Port of Singapore throughput down 3.8% to 92.27 mln t in 2016
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Wapda, UAF join hands for development of water resources
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Philippines authorities seizes shabu worth P15 million
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First ship to Chittagong sails from Krishnapatnam port
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€55,000 worth of heroin seized in Dublin
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Kuwait Customs to implement X-ray screening technologies through GCS from Smiths Detection
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