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Port Offers Shippers a Siberian Shortcut
(The New York Times)
December 3, 2000
By Russell Working
VOSTOCHNY, Russia -Only five years ago, Vostochny International Container Services - a port terminal in a city of rat-infested apartment blocks and above-ground hot water pipes - did not even own a fax machine.
Most of the cargo it handles is shipped by flatcar through the nearby city of Nakhodka, on the Sea of Japan. Angry residents there ...... Read more on The New York Times
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