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the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,833,833 articles in English. From today's featured article. Marasmius rotula, the pinwheel mushroom, is a fungus in the family Marasmiaceae. Widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, it was first described scientifically in 1772 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli. The mushrooms are characterized by thin ...
There are two Department viz. Department of Shipping and Department of Road Transport & Highways. In 2009, The Ministry of Shipping was again formed by bifurcating the Ministry Of Shipping, Road Transport, and Highways Further, in 2020 the Ministry of Shipping was renamed as Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. Cabinet Ministers
The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 20, 2009, the 93rd annual awards. [1] The New York Times won five awards this year, with the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) being the only other multi-prize winner with two. Three organizations were awarded prizes for the first time: Las Vegas Sun, East Valley Tribune and The ...
Transfield Shipping was a charterer. It hired use of Mercator's ship, The Achilleas. Transfield was meant to have the ship for five to seven months, and return it no later than midnight on 2 May 2004. Mercator contracted to let the ship to another charterer ( Cargill International SA) on 8 May 2004 at $39,500 a day for four to six months.
The MV Princess Ashika was an inter-island ferry which operated in the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga. This motorised vessel (MV) was built in 1972, and began sailing the Tongan route on 7 July 2009 only to sink less than a month later on 5 August. Official figures released by Operation Ashika on 19 August 2009, confirmed that 54 men were ...
Agreements of Hong Kong. As a special administrative region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong maintains its own custom territory separate from mainland China, and signs its own agreements. The following agreements are currently in effect, signature and entry into force dates are as listed by the WTO. [1]
Pericles Panagopoulos (29 December 1935 – 5 February 2019) was a Greek shipping magnate. He is considered to have been an institutor of the modern shipping industry, [1] [2] and the most successful Greek shipping magnate since Aristotle Onassis. [3] He gained acclaim for having created three shipping business entities, in his lifetime.
Ship Simulator is a ship simulator, a type of vehicle simulation computer game which simulates maneuvering various ships in different environments, although without the effects of wind and current. It was developed by Dutch company VSTEP and released by the former company Lighthouse Interactive, which closed down in 2009.