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This 2010 photo made available Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, shows an aereal view of the Gioia Tauro port, Italy. Italian officials say the southern Italian port will be the site for the transfer of a shipment of chemical weapons materials from Syria to a U.S. ship. Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi identified the port in a joint meeting of the parliamentary foreign affairs commissions. The raw materials for poison gas and nerve agents currently are on board a Danish ship, and Italy has agreed to serve as the transfer port to a U.S. ship. Lupi said a total of 60 containers of the material would be transferred ship-to-ship at the port in Calabria, near the toe of the Italian boot, and none would be brought to shore. (AP Photo/Adriana Sapone)