China questions safety of Brazil’s dry bulk carriers, the world’s largest

Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 18:05 UTC

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China should be in no rush to allow Brazil’s new Valemax ships, the world's largest dry bulk carriers, into its ports, as they have not been thoroughly tested and any oil leak from one could be catastrophic, an influential Chinese industry group warned on Tuesday. Read full article

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briton
free trade
or
protectionism.
Dec 14th, 2011 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pirat-Hunter
ic CIA planning an attck on Chinese ships ?? years ago something like this was said by a US politician and soon enought the Germans sunk a US ships with thousands on board, nothing like this is being said about british ships going to theft oil from Islas Malvinas and we all know the track record BP has with ocean wells.
Dec 14th, 2011 - 10:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
confusion old boy,
thats the statagy, confusion .
Dec 15th, 2011 - 12:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Rob the argentine
#2 how is involved the Falkalnd issue with this article? can you tell me because maybe I am retarded and don't understand that Falklands DO NOT belong to Argentina. (an argentine living in Mendoza, Argentina)
Dec 15th, 2011 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
(i) Follow Briton's lead - he is on-topic: Free-trade or Protectionism.

(ii) There is a significant history of giant ship founderings in certain sea conditions. The structural design constraints are not linear with increasing length.
MaxWave - two Esa satellites surveying the oceans - 2000 onwards, finds on average 3 'Perfect Storm' waves of over 25m (81ft) high each week. The are back-breaking waves for such long vessels.
Over the last two decades more than 200 super-carriers have been lost at sea.
Storm waves are the declared cause, but

(iii) there is a surprisingly good correlation between the financial need to realise insurance claims and supertanker founderings, especially off the West African coast. Smaller, older supertankers are not cost-efficient, and what better way to finance larger, state-of-the-art versions than to 'lose' the old to finance the new.
Usually recorded as 'Lost with all hands', without evidence.
Dec 15th, 2011 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Uncle Sam
2 Pirat-Hunter (#)

What in hell are you talking about???
Dec 21st, 2011 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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