Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port car factory will build at least 160, 000 Astra vehicles a year in a deal that secures the future of the plant and protects thousands of jobs.
But two years ago, my friend Cristina Di Benigno invited me to lunch in her village near Corvara, a tiny, little-known ruin of a town in Abruzzo, about an hour by car from the port city of Pescara.
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In 1967 he returned to the North West to become a production line worker at the Vauxhall car factory at Ellesmere Port.
The freshly-minted Saudi visas in their passports mean Tony and Joe can now take a bus through the Saudi and Jordanian capitals, a car to the Israeli port city of Haifa, then a boat to a European Mediterranean city.
Maruti exports cars to more than 125 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and Oceania using a car-terminal facility at the Mundra port in Gujarat.
In Basra, a Shiite-majority port city in southern Iraq, a car bombing at a gathering of day laborers killed 13 people and wounded 50, according to an official in the Basra Command, Iraq's southernmost military detachment.
On Tuesday, Vauxhall said it was stopping production for a week from 24 September at its Ellesmere Port and Luton plants because of falling European car sales.
"A lot of cars stuck, a lot of roads not plowed, mainly the side roads, " said Chris Bornemann, 32, of Port Jefferson, as he put gas in his car after a rough drive around the Ronkonkoma area.
And speaking of things that go, the U.S. auto industry may in fact offer President Obama the only dependable port in a re-gathering economic storm when car makers post their August sales results early next week: Prognosticators believe the sales snapshot will show an auto industry that is still strongly on track toward its third consecutive year of double-digit sales gains.
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It appears to have been responsible for a car bomb on March 24th that killed nine people and wounded 56 in Buenaventura, a port on the Pacific coast.
Tied up in port sit two massive iron ore transporters carrying the raw material for the world's car making industry.
The Port of Tyne, once famous for coal exports, is now the UK's largest car exporter, the fourth largest coal importer and one of the largest handlers of wood pellet in the world.
But Southampton's port operators, Associated British Ports (ABP), remain upbeat about the future prospects of their car terminal business.
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