Scores of ships confined to port – Ice shuts Danube in half-a-dozen countries
February 12, 2012
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Scores of ships confined to port – Ice shuts Danube in half-a-dozen countries
http://new.kuwaittimes.net
February 12, 2012
BELGRADE: Thick ice has closed hundreds of kilometres (miles) of the Danube river in half-a-dozen countries and confined scores of ships to port on the busiest European waterway, officials said yesterday. The 2,860-kilometre (1,780-mile) river, which flows through nine countries and is vital for transport, power, irrigation, industry and fishing, was wholly or partially blocked from Austria to its mouth on the Black Sea.
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