US Military Osprey With 8 Crew Crashes Off Japan

US Military Osprey With 8 Crew Crashes Off Japan

Handout photo dated October 5, 2011 shows an MV-22 Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 261 lands aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) in The Atlantic Ocean. A US Osprey military aircraft with eight crew on board crashed on Wednesday off a Japanese island, the coastguard said, in the latest accident involving the tilt-rotor military aircraft. The Osprey, developed by Bell Helicopters and Boeing and which can operate like a helicopter or a fixed-wing plane, has suffered a string of fatal crashes over the years. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Travis J. Kuykendall via ABACAPRESS.COM

China's Tianjin opens new container shipping route to Europe

STORY: China's Tianjin opens new container shipping route to Europe DATELINE: April 7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Tianjin Port 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LEE JOO-MYUNG, Chairman of HMM (China) Co., Ltd. 3. various of containers 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LEE JOO-MYUNG, Chairman of HMM (China) Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: HMM (Hyundai Merchant Marine), a leading shipping company in the Republic of Korea, on Thursday opened a new direct container shipping route linking north China's Tianjin Port with major European ports. According to the company, HMM will put 12 24,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) ultra-large container ships into weekly operation. The shipping route will connect Tianjin with major European ports, including Algeciras in Spain, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Hamburg in Germany and Antwerp in Belgium. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LEE JOO-MYUNG, Chairman of HMM (China) Co., Ltd. "The main products transported on the route are home furni