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China delivers 'green' state of the art 18.000 TEU 'Vasco de Gama'
Shipping group CMA CGM has taken delivery of the new build box ship CMA CGM Vasco de Gama on July 27. Built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), the 18,000 TEUs vessel, with its 399 meters length and 54 meters width, is the largest ship in the CMA CGM fleet and the largest containership ever built in a Chinese shipyard. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe ties between Brazil and Asia, especially the BRICS countries date back to the old Portuguese empire, which today we are sovereign. The language, culture, knowledge, pride, institutions, laws, how to think and see the world ... everything is preserved in Brazil. Portugal was transplanted to America, including his Royal House and the vast majority of its nobility.
Aug 01st, 2015 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Empire we are!
Another source of pride fr you Brasshole........comments?
Aug 01st, 2015 - 03:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.”
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d92f6af5121f49d982601a657d745e95/ap-investigation-rios-olympic-water-rife-sewage-virus
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d92f6af5121f49d982601a657d745e95/ap-investigation-rios-olympic-water-rife-sewage-virus
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d92f6af5121f49d982601a657d745e95/ap-investigation-rios-olympic-water-rife-sewage-virus
Mmmmmmyummy.........your drinking water brasshole?
I had forgotten that the Olympics started tomorrow. Sorry!
Aug 01st, 2015 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you know what so far has been the best and most World Cup held?
Do you know what people said would happen to the World Cup in Brazil?
People like the North-Americans are terrorists and do not deserve the respect of the South!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdcRbaXH2kA&index=27&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
@1, 3. Bet it sinks. But wait, it's UK-flagged. Will argieland send out its rowboats? To be run down. More than three times the size of any naval vessel anywhere. And its been renamed. It's the CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt.
Aug 01st, 2015 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasshole........having the respect of you is tantamount of respect of ISIL. If you think you can clean pollution in a year.......I have a political party to sell you. Oh........wsit.....it was already sold down the polluted river.......the PT party.
Aug 01st, 2015 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 brASSHOLE
Aug 01st, 2015 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pure, unadulterated sh*t....like the brown matter you've got between your two ears.
“Ties between Brazil and Asia, especially the BRICS countries.....”
So South Africa is now in Asia is it ?? Well, for someone who thinks Brazil is in the East, good going !!
@3
“I had forgotten that the Olympics started tomorrow. Sorry!
Do you know what so far has been the best and most World Cup held?
Do you know what people said would happen to the World Cup in Brazil?
People like the North-Americans are terrorists and do not deserve the respect of the South!”
More crap.
1) The Olympics have NOT started you idiot. What's going on in Rio today, are simply trial runs to see if the organization and timing systems for the 'water events' to be held in the Olympics - which start NEXT year - work. That is all.
2) cannot answer that, as everyone is entitled to his/her opinion...But, one thing for sure, only the brazzos - yes, like you brASSHOLE - believe it was in Brazil , last year.
3) Yes, that that Brazil would not win.....and it didn't ; the 7 x 1 is proof that Brazil is no longer top dog. Confirmed by the recent “Copa America”.
4) That is 'your' silly, irrelevant opinion...it is usually the stupid, ignorant 'petistas' that go around saying that, when in truth, they are envious of the USA.
5) STFU.
Could not the British government buy on of these things,
Aug 01st, 2015 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0send it to dover, and take all that cargo from the lorries and take t around to another port in the med.
and sod the French,
or not a good idea...
@7 Briton
Aug 01st, 2015 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“...or not such a good idea...” is more like it. These enormous ships are only good for the long haul....too expensive to stop at every port , and too big to berth at normal docks, not to mention that the current cranes in most ports aren't tall enough, nor can they reach over to the far side of the ship. The cranes need to be able to take off at least 100 boxes per hour, otherwise the ship would never leave port. The need to cut costs and the result of increased trade and logistical integration.
Shame really , it might have helped,
Aug 02nd, 2015 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.
@9 you're right....shipping 30 years ago, with more carriers, smaller ships, more port calls, decent freight rates, less aggressive competition, was a damned sight more interesting.
Aug 02nd, 2015 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 Brasileiro
Aug 03rd, 2015 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is a rare occasion that you are correct about something:
“Portugal was transplanted to America, including his Royal House and the vast majority of its nobility.”
But I am surprised that you celebrate the actions of English imperialism.
11 Condorito
Aug 03rd, 2015 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0But I never said that imperialism is a good thing. English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and Belgian empires was maintained at the expense of human suffering. We need to know what happened to us so we can evolve into something better.
@12
Aug 03rd, 2015 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In your first post you make clear that Brasil's links with Asia along with “language, culture, knowledge, pride, institutions, laws, how to think and see the world” were derived from the fact that Portugal was “transplanted to America”.
It is also clear that you think this was a good thing and good for Brasil.
What is also clear is that until I pointed it out to you, you probably didn't realise that it was the English who evacuated the Portuguese court to Brasil.
We need to know what happened to us so we can evolve into something better.
@13 Condorito
Aug 03rd, 2015 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Agree with you. The brASSHOLE is now trying - unsuccessfully - to sidestep the issue. He is quite stupid, to the point of contradicting himself without even realizing it. It is obvious that his semi-reasonable rant “...The language, culture, knowledge, pride, institutions, laws, how to think and see the world ... everything is preserved in Brazil” is written with a certain amount of 'pride' ....so no use him trying to deny it now.
The biggest problem with “ Portugal was transplanted to America, including his Royal House and the vast majority of its nobility”, is the rather rotten and corrupt legacy that now prevails in Brazil. The arrival of the Portuguese Court to Rio de Janeiro in 1808, when D.João was fleeing from Napoleon's imminent invasion of Portugal, brought a lot of “nothing good”.....One of their first acts in Rio, was to confiscate a few hundred good houses and expel the families who owned and lived in them, in order to accomodate the hundreds of members of the Portuguese Court....from then on, it became clear that to to get ahead in this new society, you had better be “a friend of the King's”......
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