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According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, in 2011, an average of 14 tankers per day passed out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait carrying 17 million barrels (2,700,000 m 3) of crude oil. This was said to represent 35% of the world's seaborne oil shipments and 20% of oil traded worldwide.
The White Star Line was a British shipping line.Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually rose up to become one of the most prominent shipping companies in the world, providing passenger and cargo services between the British Empire and the United States.
The at sign, @, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14), [1] now seen more widely in email addresses and social media platform handles.
The archery events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held over an eight-day period from 27 July to 3 August. Four events took place, all being staged at Lord's Cricket Ground in front of temporary stands built to accommodate up to 6,500 spectators.
2012 Malian coup d'état: The Economic Community of West African States pledges to send troops to Mali if the country agrees. (AFP via Google News) China , France , Russia , the United Kingdom and United States urge Iran to co-operate with the International Atomic Energy Agency .
Hong Kong Fir Shipping hired out their elderly ship, [4] the "Hong Kong Fir", to Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha under a two-year time charter-party. It was to sail in ballast from Liverpool to collect a cargo at Newport News, Virginia, and then to proceed via Panama to Osaka.
Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand.The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, and Charles Durning.
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR [a] held that the mistake was not sufficiently fundamental to void the contract. The Great Peace would have taken 22 hours to cover 410 miles, but that delay was insufficient to make performance of the contract "essentially different from [the services] the parties envisaged when the contract was concluded".