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In February 2024, the barge, carrying an estimated 35,000 barrels of fuel oil, capsized after running aground on a reef some 150 metres (490 ft) off the south coast of Tobago. [2] [3] The circumstances of the capsizing are not yet clear. [4] The oil spill has spread to Grenada and could potentially affect Venezuela. [5]
A drum (also called a barrel) is a cylindrical shipping container used for shipping bulk cargo. Drums can be made of steel, dense paperboard (commonly called a fiber drum), or plastic, and are generally used for the transportation and storage of liquids and powders. Drums are often stackable, and have dimensions designed for efficient warehouse ...
Wind turbine towers being unloaded at a port Stevedores on a New York dock loading barrels of corn syrup onto a barge on the Hudson River.Photo by Lewis Hine, circa 1912. In shipping, break-bulk, breakbulk, [2] or break bulk cargo, also called general cargo, is goods that are stowed on board ships in individually counted units.
On average, it costs between US$10-$15 per barrel to transport oil and gas by rail compared to $5 a barrel for pipeline. [23] [24] In 2012,16 million barrels of oil were imported to USA by rail. By 2014, that number increased to 59 million barrels. [25]
Aframax tanker Mitera Marigo. An Aframax vessel is an oil tanker with a deadweight between 80,000 and 120,000 metric tonnes. [1] The term is based on the Average Freight Rate Assessment (AFRA), a tanker rate system created in 1954 by Shell Oil to standardize shipping contract terms.
In 2016, about 400 barrels (64 m 3) were released from the original Keystone pipe network via leaks, which federal investigators said resulted from a "weld anomaly". [235] On November 17, 2017, the pipeline leaked around 9,600 barrels (1,530 m 3) [236] onto farmland near Amherst, South Dakota. The oil leak is the largest seen from the Keystone ...
In 1979, World-Wide Shipping of Yue-Kong Pao with 204 vessels, many of them tankers, was the largest shipping company in the world with a tonnage of 20.5 million, but in the five years after that he sold some 140 vessels to manage the crisis. In 1980, Daniel K. Ludwig had the largest fleet after Y. K. Pao and C. Y. Tung and was regarded the ...
Faced with the rise in power of the New Jewel Movement, Eric Gairy at the beginning of 1979 considered taking action and having members of the party's leadership arrested. Political tension was further aggravated when the police discovered barrels of grease intended to transport weapons from the United States to Grenada for the benefit of the NJM.