A 15-day-old night monkey is fed by at a temporary shelter west of Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. The male night monkey arrived at the center on Feb. 4, weighing a scant 100 grams, or about one-quarter of a pound. It was brought by a man who said he found it abandoned on the side of a highway in Colombia's eastern plains near Meta province, said Judith Cardenas, the center's chief biologist. The plan, according to Cardenas, is to let the baby monkey grow and then place him in a large cage in the center, next to another monkey of the same species. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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A 15-day-old night monkey is fed by at a temporary shelter west of Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. The male night monkey arrived at the center on Feb. 4, weighing a scant 100 grams, or about one-quarter of a pound. It was brought by a man who said he found it abandoned on the side of a highway in Colombia's eastern plains near Meta province, said Judith Cardenas, the center's chief biologist. The plan, according to Cardenas, is to let the baby monkey grow and then place him in a large cage in the center, next to another monkey of the same species. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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FILE - Ford Motor Company's logo is shown atop its world headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., in this June 5, 2003 file photo. Ford's net income fell from $13.6 billion in the same quarter last year, but that figure included a big accounting-related gain it was announced Tuesday Jan. 29, 2013. Without that gain, Ford's earnings were up from $1 billion in the fourth quarter of last year. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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This undated Florida Department of Corrections booking mug shows Griselda Blanco. Blanco, a convicted drug trafficker who was once known as the "Godmother" and the "Queen of Cocaine," has been shot to death by an unidentified gunman, police in Colombia said Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Florida Dept. of Corrections via The Miami Herald)
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An employee at a wildlife centre in Colombia has taken on the role of surrogate mother for a baby monkey. The tiny night monkey is with Martha Silva 24 hours a day. (Feb. 22)
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In this Sunday, July 2, 2012, photo, the DEKALB corn logo is seen on along side of rows of corn in Ashland, Ill. Agricultural products giant Monsanto reported Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, that its profit nearly tripled in the first fiscal quarter as sales of its biotech corn seeds expanded in Latin America. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
Colombia lifts port ban on Drummond coal shipments
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's government has ended a nearly monthlong ban on coal shipments by the U.S. -based Drummond Co. that was imposed after it dumped tons of coal into the ocean at a Caribbean port.
The Environment Ministry said Friday that an investigation expected to lead to sanctions would continue into the Jan. 12-13 incident, in which an unspecified amount of coal was dumped into the ocean during rough weather.
The ministry imposed the ban Feb. 6, demanding a new contingency plan from Drummond.
Drummond produces 24 million metric tons of coal in Colombia from an open pit mine near the Caribbean and moves the coal by train to a port near Santa Marta. It is the South American country's No. 2 producer of coal, accounting for nearly a quarter of output.
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