Jhu apl = johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory .
约翰霍普金斯大学应用物理实验室。
The suez canal authority has joined apl in its pitch to avoid panama constrictions and la-long beach transhipment expenses and use suez to get containers directly to us east coast and gulf port destinations .
Ron widdows , chief executive of apl , a singapore-based container shipping line , says there are long-term concerns about the efficiency of us ports and their ability to handle the volumes of cargo now entering north america .
Apl had no ownership in the plant ; it belonged to an independent subsidiary with no ratepayers , and its construction and financing plan had to be approved only by the federal government , which subjected the project to far less than adequate scrutiny .
