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MSC Napoli was a United Kingdom- flagged container ship that developed a hull breach due to rough seas and slamming in the English Channel on 18 January 2007. She was deliberately run aground at Lyme Bay to avoid an environmental disaster and broken up by salvors.
MSC Flaminia is a post-Panamax container ship with a capacity of 6,750 TEUs and deadweight tonnage of 85,823 tons. She is nearly 300 metres (984 ft 3 in) long and 40 metres (131 ft 3 in) wide, and fully laden draws 14.5 metres (47 ft 7 in) of water. Like most large container ships, MSC Flaminia is powered by a single low-speed two-stroke ...
Mediterranean Shipping Company. Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned by the Aponte family with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, since 1978. [4] It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and ...
The MV Wakashio oil spill occurred after the Japanese -controlled bulk carrier Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef on 25 July 2020 at around 16:00 UTC. The ship began to leak fuel oil in the following weeks, and broke apart in mid August. Although much of the oil on board Wakashio was pumped out before she broke in half, an estimated 1,000 ...
Seizure of the ship. On Monday, October 7, 1985, four PLF militants hijacked Achille Lauro off Egypt. The hijackers had been surprised by a crew member and acted prematurely. The Palestinians had hidden their weapons in the gas tank of a car parked in Italy in preparation for boarding the ship.
22.0 kn (40.7 km/h; 25.3 mph) [1] Capacity. 869 passengers (as built) [1] 1,372 passengers [2] Crew. 300 [2] MS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples, Italy. It was built between 1939 and 1947 as the ocean liner Willem Ruys for Royal Rotterdam Lloyd. In 1965 Achille Lauro bought the ship, had it converted into a cruise ship, and ...
Bugsier-Reederei-und Bergungs-Gesellschaft mbH & Co, Hamburg. Wrecked on the Isles of Scilly 26 March 1997. On 26 March 1997, the 300-ft merchant vessel MV Cita pierced its hull when running aground on rocks off the south coast of the Isles of Scilly in gale-force winds en route from Southampton to Belfast.
Alma mater. Istituto Tecnico Nautico Statale Nino Bixio. Occupation (s) Founder, Mediterranean Shipping Company. Spouse. Rafaela Aponte-Diamant. Children. 2. Gianluigi Aponte (Italian pronunciation: [dʒanluˈiːdʒi aˈponte]; born 27 June 1940) is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the founder, owner and chairman of Mediterranean ...