What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

It is lower cost for us to buy our own cranes. The port charged us a tariff for using the cranes.

None of the alternatives we are exploring would involve selling control of our U.S. operations to a company owned by a foreign government.

It's a capital intensive business to get into and ... to actually have the leases, it's very difficult because the port authorities want to give the leases to shipping lines rather than terminal operators. We would have a lot more terminal leases if we could.

It's like we're used to flying out of a small airport while they've been using O'Hare or JFK.

Since 9/11, (security) has taken on new dimensions that they didn't have before. There are many different layers of security in the process.