AP Television Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) - March 20, 2011 1. Various of the main gate of Port Khalid 2. Various of activity in Port Khalid - cars being lifted on to boats, lorries carrying containers, UASC containers stacks AP Television Sharjah, UAE - March 17, 2011 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain R. Rajan, Marine Pilot, Sharjah Ports: "This is the first open gateway for the United Arab Emirates. When they come inside the Persian Gulf, the first major port that you see is Sharjah. Just north of it is Hamriyah again belonging to the same administration, Sharjah administration. Both these ports are the bigger ports which are the first ports when you come inside the Persian Gulf that's acting like a gateway for the United Arab Emirates. Apart from this we control even a port which is there on the eastern coast of the UAE which is called Khor Fakkan which is open to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea." 4. Various of oil rigs being serviced in the port 5. Wide of the waterway into the port, seen from moving boat 6. Close of the bow of the pilot's boat cutting through the water 7. Close of radar screen on the boat 8. Wide of pilot navigating his boat towards the harbour entrance 9. Close of pilot's hand on the ship's controls AP Television Sharjah, UAE - March 21, 2011 10. Various set ups of Captain Mohammed Saleh, Director of Operations at Port Khalid in his office 11.SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Mohammed Saleh, Director of Operations, Port Khalid: "The advantage is mainly when the ships, when they enter into the Gulf they have to pay higher premiums but if they drop their containers at Khor Fakkan and leave then that cuts their expenses quite a lot. Then the containers can be distributed by road, it's only one and a half hours, or by smaller ship and distributed all over the Gulf ports." AP Television Sharjah, UAE - March 20, 2011 12. Various of a container ship being unloaded: includes gantry cranes lifting containers off the ship and on to trucks 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Keith Nuttall, Group Commercial Manager, Gulftainor: "For many years this has been an area of what shipping lines call imbalance. You move full boxes into the area, full of cargo and the boxes go out empty. This is not good for shipping lines results. But in recent years this is changing. The full boxes are still coming in, full of consumer goods or development goods but also increasingly boxes are going out full of, for example, polyethylene which is used for the manufacture of plastics, particularly in Asia." AP Television Khor Fakkan, Sharjah, UAE - 20 March 2011 14. Various of Al Mariyah container ship being unloaded 15. Various of Chinese container ship Xin Ning Bo coming in to Port Khor Fakkan 16. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Captain Liu Lee, Master of the Xin Ning Bo: "This phenomenon (the export of polyethylene) has increased over the past ten years. The co-operation between both sides has increased significantly and the mutual transfer of goods is great news for us." 17. Various of the container ship being unloaded AP Television Sharjah, UAE - March 21, 2011 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Mohammed Saleh, Director of Operations: AP Television Khor Fakkan, Sharjah, UAE - 20 March 2011 19. Various of container ship being unloaded 20. Wide of port berth 21. Various of Port Khor Fakkan from across the bay LEAD IN: Sharjah's deep water ports are perfectly placed to benefit from the booming economies of the Gulf states. The rocketing price of oil has fuelled a massive increase in shipping to and from the region. With ports on both the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, Sharjah is developing as a key trade hub for the whole of the Middle East. STORYLINE: You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f99b9adc288569874626a749013c23d2 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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