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    • US awards contracts for nuclear scanning of cargo

      Posted by Billbar from Reuters

      The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Friday it awarded $1.16 billion in contracts to three companies to develop equipment to scan cargo at border cities for nuclear weapons material. New York and New Jersey will get some of the first 80 devices, which were ordered "immediately" and will arrive this autumn, said Jarrod Agen, a Homeland Security spokesman.

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    • Dubai Port Company to Divest Itself of American Holdings

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) announced on the Senate floor shortly before 2 p.m. that Dubai Ports World would "transfer fully the operations of U.S. ports to a U.S. entity." Warner, who had been trying to broker a compromise on the issue, said DP World would divest itself of U.S. interests "in an orderly fashion" so as not to suffer "economic loss."

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    • House Agrees To Vote On Ports

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      Efforts by the White House to hold off legislation challenging a Dubai-owned company's acquisition of operations at six major U.S. ports collapsed yesterday when House Republican leaders agreed to allow a vote next week that could kill the deal. Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) will attach legislation to block the deal today to a must-pass emergency spending bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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