[ noun ] a port city in southeastern Apulia in Italy; a center for the Crusades in the Middle Ages <noun.location>
West German diplomats in Brindisi said 3,200 Albanians who took refuge in their embassy in Tirana, Albania's capital, would make the sea crossing.
Four days later the same consignment crosses by boat in soaring temperatures from the Italian port of Brindisi to Igoumenitsa in Greece.
Two new complexes - BP's 350,000 tonnes a year expansion at Grangemouth and EniChem's 360,000 tonnes a year plant at Brindisi - have taken European capacity to 18.5m tonnes a year, aggravating the supply position further.
The first ship will leave the Italian port of Brindisi for Albania on Thursday evening, an Interior Ministry spokesman said today.
Many of the Albanians leaving the ships in Brindisi looked stunned.
The approximately 800 Albanians who took refuge in the Italian Embassy will be given temporary shelter in a military camp near Brindisi.
Another vessel, the Espresso Grecia, was to leave from the southern Italian city of Brindisi later today, De Rosa said.
About 800 Albanians from Italy's embassy were taken by bus to a temporary camp outside Brindisi, and 29 refugees from Greece's embassy took a plane from Brindisi to Athens, said Clara Minerva, assistant director of the local Interior Ministry office.
About 800 Albanians from Italy's embassy were taken by bus to a temporary camp outside Brindisi, and 29 refugees from Greece's embassy took a plane from Brindisi to Athens, said Clara Minerva, assistant director of the local Interior Ministry office.
"We are likely to see a lot more of these in the future," says Louis Brindisi, of consulting firm Strategic Compensation Associates.
Last year one company granted stock options with an exercise price $3 higher than the market value on the grant date, says Louis Brindisi, chairman of Strategic Compensation Associates, an executive-compensation consulting firm.