EUROPE | Ports and shipping news

[brick84]

Genoa, ship against the tower of the port:
9 dead, investigated the commander and pilot



May Night colors that infernal spent in Genoa. A container ship leaving the port has hit the tower-pilots of the port causing them to collapse. The budget is 9 dead, 4 injured. In Genoa in the evening came the premier Letta: "I'm here only to bring the solidarity of the whole country to the city of Genoa and the proximity to bring the injured and the families of the victims. It is a terrible tragedy, "he explained," I was in the hospital - said Letta - to visit the wounded. " To accompany the Prime Minister were, among others, the commander of the port of the capital, Admiral Felicio Angrisano, Mayor Marco Doria, President of the Region, Claudio Burlando, and the prefect John Balsamo. For tomorrow in the city was willing mourning.

THE IMPACT

It was just after 23:30 when the Jolly Black, a container ship of the line Messina was leaving the airport. For reasons that are yet to ascertain the vessel is completely wrong maneuver and is in fact 'entry' into the pilot house, where they work and live many of the drivers of the Port of Genoa. Following the impact the tower is tilted 45 degrees, and many people either were trapped inside, they have fallen into the sea. Al Molo Giano you continue to work to try to free the platform from what remains of the Tower, a concrete structure over 50 meters high came down with a crash, burying all those who were inside. Divers of firefighters have plumbed the bottom of the harbor all night "when visibility is very difficult even for the slime caused the rubble," while dozens of men in the rescue work to remove the debris.

VICTIMS

The budget is nine dead (only one of which has not yet been identified) and 4 injured. Three victims have already been identified: it is Fratantonio Daniel, 30, a native of Rapallo, who worked at the operations center of the Coast Guard, Petty Officer David Morella, 33, of Bisceglie, military of the Port of Genoa, and Michele Robazza, 31, of Livorno, Genoa Body pilots. The others do not yet know the identity. A ringing cell phone arrived in the middle of the night from the rubble did live a moment of hope to rescuers, but after a few seconds the call was interrupted and did not allow to locate the subject.
..
..
..
http://www.lastampa.it/2013/05/08/it...kI/pagina.html

[brick84]

This was the tower pilots







[IMG]http://i43.************/3492vmg.jpg[/IMG]


and now...

[brick84]

Malta

Grand Harbour




by Sal73x -- http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post103224876

[brick84]

Pozzallo, Sicily (Italy)


[IMG]http://i43.************/2usfq6r.jpg[/IMG]
taken by me

[vonbingen]

TODAY OUR president François Hollande is in MARSEILLE.
to inaugurate the biggest SHIP in the world.

THE CMA CGM JULES VERNE is a container ship in the Explorer class owned by the CMA CGM group? the largest containership in the world measured by capacity, as it can hold 16,020 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit containers).
The previous largest was Emma Mærsk and her seven sisters of the Mærsk E-class. The capacity is 10,000 TEU if all are fully loaded 14 ton containers, compared to 11,000 for Emma Mærsk.

THE CMA CGM JULES VERNE is the twin brother of the the CMA CGM MARCO POLO.

Length: 396.0 m (1,299 ft 3 in)
Beam: 53.6 m (175 ft 10 in)
Draught: 16.0 m (52 ft 6 in)
Depth: 29.9 m (98 ft 1 in) (deck edge to keel).






pictures cma cgm

[brick84]

Impressive.

[brick84]

Port of Palermo, Sicily (Italy)

The port and the city


image hosted on flickr



image hosted on flickr

by calabrese on Flickr

image hosted on flickr



'La Cala' (little port)

image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr

by lorca56 on Flickr

[brick84]

Ship in Strait of Messina, Sicily - Italy



host immagini
by Francesco Rando