Since August 29 the ship Ocean Atlas has been at port in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where it docked to unload a cargo of equipment.

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There's a functioning railway linking the area with a port on the Indian Ocean.

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In the near future whether you are in the middle of the ocean or docked at a foreign port, your personal communications device (whether smartphone, Blackberry, laptop or tablet) will provide equivalent communications that we have all come to expect at home.

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Mr Morales said the deal would "open the door for Bolivians to have an international port, to use the ocean for global trade and for Bolivian products to have better access to global markets".

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More than 400km long, the easily navigated ocean route that reaches from the town of Dalhousie to Port Elgin includes several worthwhile stops, including the Acadian Historic Village.

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The 150 inside rooms - normally the least attractive accommodations on board - feature virtual portholes that offer a video view of the ocean that corresponds to each stateroom's location: forward, aft, port or starboard.

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