BLOOMBERG, NOVEMBER 26, 2020 Sweden’s herd immunity strategy has failed, hospitals inundated By Rafaela Lindeberg and Niclas Rolander – Swedish confidence in the nation’s strategy to fight the coronavirus pandemic has slumped, with concerns over capacity in the health-care system now almost universal. A poll by DN/Ipsos published on Thursday showed that 82% of Swedes are either “somewhat” or “very worried” as to whether their …
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Maritime Image of the Day: The Mars Shipwreck (1564)
PortandTerminal.com, October 3, 2020 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – Today’s Maritime Image of the Day is a photo of the 450-year-old Mars shipwreck which lies in almost 250 of water, 10 nautical miles north of the Swedish island of Öland. The photo is actually a composite of a number of photographs of the wreck that have been stitched together to form …
Read More »Russian Czar’s Rare Liquor Shipment Recovered From WWI Wreck
PortandTerminal.com, November 13, 2019 A ship carrying a liquor shipment to the last Russian Czar never completed its journey. Now, 102 years later, a team of salvagers from Ocean X are bringing the bottles to the surface STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – A Swedish team has salvaged hundreds of bottles of liquor from the wreck of a ship sunk during World War …
Read More »Germany opens its first electric highway for trucks on the Autobahn
PortandTerminal.com, May 24, 2019 Trucks make up only about 5 percent of all vehicles on the road, but they produce more than 25 percent of global warming emissions that come from the transportation sector. Germany is experimenting to fix that problem. Frankfurt, Germany – Germany believes that it may have found the solution to the diesel truck pollution problem. The …
Read More »Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road
PortandTerminal.com, May 17, 2019 Jönköping, Sweden – A Swedish startup called Einride has started testing its all-electric delivery truck on a public road in Sweden. As a part of a year-long trial, the Einride T-Pod truck started the first of what will be many daily freight deliveries this week in the city of Jönköping in Sweden. Einride has had lots …
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