In 1971, long before glasnost, he organized the first American industrial machinery show in Russia, overcoming currency and language barriers, shipping catastrophes and "unfathomable amounts of red tape".
This eliminates potential shipping catastrophes.
During World War II there was over 10 million barrels of oil spilt from ships, and no natural catastrophe...
Francesco Schettino, the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia, claims that "a divine hand surely touched my head," sparing further catastrophe when his cruise ship crashed off the coast of Italy, a leaked letter to his attorney says.
Men of the crew who had learned only today about the catastrophe which befell the sister ship still seemed stunned by the news.
The catastrophe claimed 496 crewmen although the escorting ships were able to rescue 336 men.
If the ship of state can't turn in time to avert catastrophe, it's time to jump ship and put ourselves into small, mobile lifeboats, canoes, outriggers, and kayaks.
(B) Britain is a ship under full steam, being driven onto the rocks of economic catastrophe by a crazed captain.Well, which is it?
They played down the risk of further leaks from the stricken ship, but environmental groups called the situation an "environmental, ecological and economic catastrophe".
Plasencia recognized that Puerto Rico's debt-ridden status, its colonial history and the shipping restrictions of the Jones Act all played a part in the catastrophe.
