Saturday, August 22, 2026 · Evening edition
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PoliticsThe vote hands the port authority control of the eastern quays for the first time in four decades, and commits the assembly to a review of every dredging licence issued since 2019. Opposition members walked out before the final division.
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Two clauses on adaptation finance survived the final night; the phase-out language did not. Negotiators from the smaller coastal states left without signing the communiqué.
Margins recovered faster than the board guided in March, though it warned that the second half depends on freight costs holding.
Two floors of the eastern quarter let inside a month, which the agents are calling a turn and the landlords are calling a rounding error.
Forty-one members order beans and packaging together from October; the group says it expects to hold prices into next spring.
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