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  MP calls for new Sea Marshal force to protect British ferry passengers
  British ferry passengers should be protected by a new Sea Marshal force to prevent people trafficking across the Channel, a Conservative MP has demanded. Charlie Elphicke, the MP for Dover, said the Royal Navy should also be deployed in the English Channel to protect the UK against migrant people-smugglers and the heightened terror threat. In a report submitted to the Home Office, Mr Elphicke called for the new patrol force to be modelled on the Royal Navy fleet Dover Patrol, which protected the Channel during the First World War. 
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  Global container throughput growth slumps
  Global container throughput is expected to grow by only 0.3% this year, as the weak volume growth recorded in the first half of 2016 dragged full year volume projections down. This year is expected to yield the second lowest annual growth rate since 2009, when a record year-on-year decline saw global container volumes shrink by -8.3% in the aftermaths of the Lehman Bros failure.