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(ABC News Australia) A Beechcraft King Air F90 crashes in Barra Funda, São Paulo, Brazil, killing the two people on board and wounding six on the ground. Two tourists die in Colombo, Sri Lanka, when their hostel room is fumigated with a pesticide for bedbugs. Health and environment. 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak
Denmark's government has proposed purchasing two new Arctic inspection vessels and increasing dog sled patrols to boost its military presence in Greenland, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ...
List of merchant navy capacity by flag is a list of the world foremost fleets of registered trading vessels ranked in both gross tonnage (GT) and deadweight tonnage (DWT) sorted by flag state. The table is based on the annual maritime shipping statistics provided by the British Government and the Department for Transport.
Second deadliest non-military maritime disaster - 1,863 deaths and 64 survivors. 14 December 2002: MV Tricolor: Collision, no casualties, vessel required salvation by wreck cutting in 9 sections due to being a hazard to navigation. 31 January 2004: MV Diamond Ray
Furthermore, some of the world's main waterways such as the Suez Canal and Singapore Strait restrict the maximum dimensions of a ship that can pass through them. In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), and one with a capacity greater than ...
The International Maritime Organization wall honouring former Secretaries-General. The governing body of the International Maritime Organization is the Assembly which meets every two years. In between Assembly sessions a Council, consisting of 40 Member States elected by the Assembly, acts as the governing body.
The Arctic LNG carriers, fitted with three 15 MW ABB Azipod propulsion units, are the largest icebreaking vessels in the world with an independent ice-going capability in level ice up to 2.1 metres (6.9 ft) in thickness. [28] The first vessel, Christophe de Margerie, was launched in January 2016. [29]
U.S. imports from China finished the year strong after some companies stockpiled shipments of apparel, toys, furniture and electronics ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's plan to impose new ...