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.
Venice’s famous waterways ice over
February 9, 2012
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Big freeze in Europe shows no signs of letting up as Venice’s famous waterways ice over
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
February 7, 2012
The big freeze shows no sign of letting up in Europe as Venice’s famed waterways fell victim to sub zero temperatures this morning.
Water buses were stranded in some of the Italian city’s canals after they froze solid in temperatures as low as -10C.
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