Serenierre
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PORT OF AZIRMEH
Rehanullah Niazi had recently been appointed Director of Port Operations and the view of the entire port from his office window was still something he found intensely invigorating. For someone who had, in all honesty, only seen the coast for the first time when he was forty-two, to be in-charge of a port was indeed quite something. The massive port was, at the moment, filled with tankers lined up to be loaded with cargo straight from the northern provinces of Sikandara, which included shipments of coal and iron, as well as lighter goods such as canned fruits. However the main business of the port was the loading and managing of the massive oil tankers.
Azirmeh, while far removed from the main shipping lanes of the Long Sea, was the closest port to the massive oil fields of Northern Sikandara and the port was the main point for Sikandari oil to be transferred to domestic oil tankers. It was easier, and cheaper, for the oil companies to deposit their product from here rather than trek the 2000 kilometres or so to the main ports of Sheravan or Akbariyeh by land. It was cheaper to ship the oil from Azirmeh to Akbariyeh from where the international cargo ships could dock and collect their share of oil and international tankers could take the bulk of Sikandari oil forward into their respective markets. Today, however, there were no oil tankers on the list, since the majority had been filled over the previous weekend and had already departed the port for the main ports of Southern Sikandara.
Sipping his kava - the traditional unsweetened black tea - Director Niazi looked at the proposals that the engineers had made to him for an expansion of the port facilities. On his desk, some files from the Intelligence Bureau were also there, detailing the requirements for the clandestine supplyline for Yujiner military needs from foreign powers, or perhaps some security threat or the other posed from communists. After all, so far 17 agents had been arrested and killed for trying to sabotage the port. These were stressful times. Terminal 4 had almost entirely been occupied by the foreign supply ships for Yujin, and essentially closed off by the Intelligence Bureau. So, the need for expansion had become even greater now. In his own opinion, he did not particularly care for the Yujin effort, he really had his mind occupied by the bulk of paperwork he would need to get through to get the expansion approved by the provincial government.
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