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MS Kaiarahi
MS ''Kaiarahi'' is a roll-on/roll-off ferry operated by Interislander on the Wellington to Picton, New Zealand, Picton interisland route between the North and South islands of New Zealand. History Built as the ''Dawn Merchant'' for Cenargo International Ltd in 1998 and was launched in February 1998, that same year she was chartered to Und RORO for service in Turkey. In 1999 she was chartered to Norse Merchant Ferries and the Norfolkline in 2002. In 2005 she transferred back to Norse Merchant Ferries and was sold to Daybreak Shipping Ltd, where she was renamed the ''Europax Appia''. In 2006 she was chartered to Balearia, where she was then renamed the ''Pau Casals'' and then in 2009 to T-Link Lines, where she was renamed the ''T-Rex''. In 2010 she was renamed the ''Norman Trader'' and chartered to LD Lines, she remained with them until the closure of the Dover to Boulogne route where she then transferred to other LD Lines routes until 2011, where she was chartered to both P&O Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stena RoRo
The Stena Sphere consists of the three parent companies, Stena AB, Stena Sessan AB and Stena Metall AB, wholly owned by the Olsson family. Together they make up one of Sweden’s largest family-owned corporate groups. The group’s revenue is 96 billion SEK and profit before tax for FY2023-24 is 4.3 billion SEK. CEO of the group is Dan Olsson, Dan Sten Olsson. History The foundations to today’s Stena Sphere were laid on 18 November 1939 when the Sten A. Olsson Metallprodukter trading company was founded. In the following years the company expanded both inside and outside the country’s borders. Sten Allan Olsson (1916–2013) was the son of the skipper (boating), skipper and shipowner Gustav Olsson (1876–1956) from Donsö. In 1946, Sten Allan Olsson bought his first marine vessel, vessel with a loan of Swedish krona, SEK 25,000 from Handelsbanken, and the shipping business started on a small scale. At the beginning of the 1960s a ferry service started between Gothenburg and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interislander
Interislander is a road and rail ferry service across New Zealand's Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton, New Zealand, Picton in the South Island. It is owned and operated by state-owned rail operator KiwiRail. Three roll-on roll-off (RORO) vessels operate the route, taking about three hours to complete the crossing. The inter-island rail ferry service began in August 1962, operated by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR). The service primarily provided a RORO rail link between its North and South Island networks, allowing NZR to compete directly with coastal shipping companies for inter-island freight. It also provided the first RORO road link between the two islands, which saw the Wellington to Picton ferries compete with, and then completely replace, the Union Company's Wellington–Lyttelton, New Zealand, Lyttelton ferry service. Today, the Interislander service is still well patronised despite competition on the Wellington–Picton sea route ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Finbo Cargo
MS ''Finbo Cargo'' is a roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry that was previously called ''European Endeavour'' which was owned and operated by P&O Ferries until May 2019. Eckerö Line purchased the ship from P&O in 2019 and is expected to take delivery in June 2019 and renamed her ''Finbo Cargo''. P&O took delivery of the ship in October 2007 from Acciona Trasmediterránea. She was the second P&O ship to have carried the name ''European Endeavour''. History The ship was built in 2000 for Merchant Ferries as ''Midnight Merchant'' for a planned service between Liverpool and Belfast, however, the ship was chartered to Norfolkline for their new service between Dover and Dunkirk and remained on that route until July 2006 when she was replaced by '' Maersk Dover'', a newbuild. In August 2006, she was chartered to Acciona Trasmediterránea for service in the Mediterranean and renamed ''El Greco'' registered under the Spanish flag. On 26 June 2007, it was announced that P&O Ferries had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mf Cracovia
MF or mf may refer to: Biology * Mossy fiber (other), in neuroscience * Mycosis fungoides, a type of skin disease * Myelofibrosis, a chronic clonal malignant disease * Microfibril rosettes, the sites of cellulose microfibril synthesis in plants Companies, organizations, and politics * ''MF Dow Jones News'', an Italian financial news agency * '' MF Milano Finanza'', an Italian business newspaper * MF Global (also Man Financial), a former finance company NYSE listed as MF * MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society * Massey Ferguson, an agricultural equipment company * Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit volunteer organization devoted to anti-aging research * Micro Focus, a software company * Minority Front, a South African political party * Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of trucks and buses ** Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America, Inc., a North American subsidiary * ''Mladá fronta DNES'', a Czech newspaper * Musical Fidelity, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Isle Of Inisheer
MV ''Isle of Inisheer'' is a RoPax ferry owned by Irish Continental Group and operated by Irish Ferries. History Merchant Ferries The ''Inisheer'' was built in 2000 as the ''Northern Merchant'' by Astilleros Españoles S.A. in Seville, Spain for Merchant Ferries and was supposed originally to operate in the Irish Sea, likely between Liverpool and Dublin. However, the merger of Merchant Ferries with Norse Irish Ferries forming Norse Merchant Ferries caused the newly formed company to have excess capacity. Norfolkline As a result, the ''Northern Merchant'' instead was chartered to Norfolkline for their Dover-Dunkerque service. Through her time with Norfolkline, she gradually gained several modifications, most notably a cow-catcher and sliding bows instead of the typical ramps, and twin-level loading. She was replaced on the Dover-Dunkerque service in March 2006 after the newbuild ''Maersk Delft'' entered service. Following her phase-out, she was dry-docked, repainted and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agent Noun
In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, ) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action. For example, ''driver'' is an agent noun formed from the verb ''drive''. Usually, ''derived'' in the above definition has the strict sense attached to it in morphology, that is the derivation takes as an input a lexeme (an abstract unit of morphological analysis) and produces a new lexeme. However, the classification of morphemes into derivational morphemes (see word formation) and inflectional ones is not generally a straightforward theoretical question, and different authors can make different decisions as to the general theoretical principles of the classification as well as to the actual classification of morphemes presented in a grammar of some language (for example, of the agent noun-forming morpheme). Words related to agent noun An agentive suffix or agentive prefix is commonly used to form an agent noun from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Māori Language
Māori (; endonym: 'the Māori language', commonly shortened to ) is an Eastern Polynesian languages, Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. The southernmost member of the Austronesian language family, it is related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan language, Tuamotuan, and Tahitian language, Tahitian. The Māori Language Act 1987 gave the language recognition as one of New Zealand's official languages. There are regional dialects of the Māori language. Prior to contact with Europeans, Māori lacked a written language or script. Written Māori now uses the Latin script, which was adopted and the spelling standardised by Northern Māori in collaboration with English Protestant clergy in the 19th century. In the second half of the 19th century, European children in rural areas spoke Māori with Māori children. It was common for prominent parents of these children, such as government officials, to us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dominion Post (Wellington)
''The Post'' (formerly ''The Dominion Post'', lit. 'Head of the North_Island#Naming_and_usage, Fish') is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in Wellington, New Zealand. It is owned by media business Stuff (company), Stuff Ltd, and formerly by the New Zealand branch of Australian media company Fairfax Media. Weekday issues are now in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format, and its Saturday edition is in broadsheet format. ''The Dominion Post'' was created in July 2002 with the merger of two metropolitan broadsheet newspapers, ''The Evening Post (New Zealand), The Evening Post'' and ''The Dominion (Wellington), The Dominion''. It was announced in April 2023 that the paper would be renamed ''The Post''. The change of name has garnered a generally unenthusiastic to negative response. Since July 2023, the editor has been Tracy Watkins. History ''The Dominion Post'', 2002–2023 ''The Dominion Post'' (commonly referred to as ''The DomPost'') was created in July 2002 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Jude Storm
The St. Jude storm, also known as Cyclone Christian, and other names, was a severe Beaufort scale, hurricane-force European windstorm that hit Northwestern Europe on 27 and 28 October 2013 causing at least 17 deaths. The highest windspeed was in Denmark, where a gust of was recorded in the south of the country (in Als (island), Als) on the afternoon of 28 October, the strongest wind recorded in the country's history. Name Although it was reported that the storm was named by a clerk at the UK's Met Office, the Met Office themselves have stated that they do not know who named the storm. The storm was named by the Weather Channel UK meteorologist Leon Brown, after the feast of Saint Jude the Apostle, which takes place on 28 October, the day when the storm was expected to be at its height. The name is reported to have been popularised on Twitter before being adopted by the media in the United Kingdom. The storm was named "Christian" on 26 October 2013 by the Free University of Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlskrona
Karlskrona (, , ) is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with a population of 66,675 in 2018. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Sweden's largest naval base and the headquarters of the Swedish Coast Guard. Historically, the city has been home to a German minority, thus enabling the formation of a German Congregational church. It also counted Jewish people in its population. In 1998, parts of the city, including the Karlskrona Naval Base, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. History Under Danish rule, the island on which Karlskrona was built, Trossö, was used chiefly for farming and grazing. During the 16th century, it was owned by the farmer Offe Månsson. A couple of kilometers away on the mainland there was another, older town called '' Lyckeby'' or ''Lyckå'' (today a city district of Karlskrona). In 1599, King Christian IV of Denmark founded a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdynia
Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk. Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity, Poland, Tricity (''Trójmiasto'') with around one million inhabitants. Historically and culturally part of Kashubia and Pomerelia, Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia for centuries remained a small fishing village. By the 20th-century it attracted visitors as a seaside resort town. In 1926, Gdynia was granted city rights after which it enjoyed demographic and urban development, with a Modernist architecture, modernist cityscape. It became a major seaport city of Poland. In 1970, 1970 Polish protests, protests in and around Gdynia contributed to the rise of the Solidarność, Solidari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picton, New Zealand
Picton () is a town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island. The town is located near the head of the Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, north of Blenheim, New Zealand, Blenheim and west of Wellington. Waikawa, Marlborough, Waikawa lies just north-east of Picton and is considered to be a contiguous part of the Picton urban area. Picton is a major hub in New Zealand's transport network, connecting the South Island road and rail network with ferries across Cook Strait to Wellington and the North Island. The Picton urban area has a population of making it the second-largest town in the Marlborough Region behind Blenheim. It is the easternmost town in the South Island with a population of at least 1,000 people. Toponymy The town is named after Sir Thomas Picton, the Welsh military associate of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington, who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo. Thomas Picton's connection to the slave trade and controve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
