Nov. 7--DUBAI -- Americans, who recently refused to let a UAE company own U.S. port assets, have become much more receptive to overtures from sovereign wealth funds based in the Gulf, a prominent Arab-American and polling specialist says.

Oct. 28--DP WORLD SAYS CONTAINER MARKET STABILIZING: Dubai-based port operator DP World has said the container market was beginning to show signs of stability and the decline in the company's volumes had slowed in the third quarter, Bloomberg has reported.

Oct. 27--DP WORLD CFO TO STEP DOWN IN DECEMBER: Dubai-owned DP World, the largest port operator in the Middle East, has announced that Yuvraj Narayan will resign his post as chief financial officer effective Dec 10.

Oct. 25--Global marine terminal operator DP World has taken delivery of 15 additional new cranes at its Jeddah facility, located within the South Container Terminal at Jeddah Islamic Port. The commissioning of the new equipment has started and will be completed in a month's time, when all machinery will be fully operational.

IDENTEC SOLUTIONS announced today at the TOC Americas Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina that its industry-leading active RFID technology has been selected by the Tecon Santa Catarina terminal in Sao Francisco do Sul, Brazil and DPW Tarragona, Spain for truck identification and automated job promotion integrated with their GPS and Terminal Operating Systems.