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The International Register of Shipping or IS was established in 1993, and is an independent classification society which provides classification, certification, verification and advisory services. The International Register of Shipping also offers consulting services well suited for the shipping and offshore industry. SOPEP at work.
The first major use of air supply was in support of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions on 7 June, when 208 aircraft were despatched. Of these, 64 had to return to the UK without dropping their loads owing to bad weather. Of the 250 short tons (230 t) of supplies despatched 155 short tons (141 t) were dropped, of which 90 percent was recovered.
The Northern France campaign officially commenced on 25 July, the day First United States Army began Operation Cobra, which saw the breakout from the Normandy lodgment, and ended on 14 September. Following Operation Cobra the advance was much faster than expected, and the rapid increase in the length of the line of communications threw up ...
Date Person(s) Age Missing from Circumstances Ref. c. 1971 Francis Brenton: 44 Atlantic Ocean Brenton, an English writer, explorer and adventurer who travelled around the world, mostly around the Americas and Africa, supposedly disappeared c. 1971 while sailing back to England.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [2]
World Shipping Council. The World Shipping Council (WSC) is the primary industry trade association representing the international liner shipping industry, which offers regularly scheduled service on fixed schedules. Most liner carriers are container shipping lines.
List of merchant navy capacity by country. 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 ...
To supply the Danish and international shipping companies, Denmark, even of its very small size of 43.094 km 2 and a population of 5,932,654 in 2023, that by World Happiness Report in 2022 was voted as the world's second happiest population, [105] and has been voted the world's happiest country several times due to coziness or "hygge", [105] is ...