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First LNG tanker to moor in Rotterdam
The ship ‘British Trader’ of the oil company BP will moor on Sunday night at the new Gate terminal at the Rotterdam Maasvlakte, with 130.000 cubic meters liquid gas on board ‘The energy haven of Rotterdam has definitely stepped into the 21st century with the mooring of this ship’, said Tie Schellekens of the Haven company Rotterdam on Sunday. According... Read More »
Saab saga continues
Production suspended again Car producer Saab has suspended the production of cars again. The company, owned by the flamboyant Victor Muller, announced that on Thursday. Production was put down on Tuesday and Wednesday as well. A spokesman of Saab couldn’t say when the production resume. “Making sure that the import of parts is stabile is a complex matter.” Worldwide, Saab is... Read More »
Phillips recalls healthcare products
Worldwide, Philips has recalled around 25.000 parts on which doctors can take breath samples at ill babies and children. Philips has started recalling it’s so called ‘Filterline’, after research had shown that patients can breath in small parts of plastic. The tubes and spouts attached to the equipment can be dangerous. They have been shipped between November 2010 and... Read More »
Wellink: ‘Extra money Greece...
Greece meets to the strict requirements to grant an emergency loan. To make sure that the country will be able to pay it’s short-term debts, extra money is needed. The president of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), said that on Sunday, in the Dutch political tv-show Buitenhof. ‘There is a lot going on in Greece. In five years time the... Read More »
’50.000 euro’s delayed...
The former Bosnian-Serbian army leader Ratko Mladic has received 50.000 euros in overdue retirement payments. Mladic’ son Darko has happily accepted the money, in name of his father. The Serbian newspaper Novosti reported that today. Serbia froze the pension of the 68-year old Mladic in 2005, because he was for volatile. Being arrested and brought to the Netherlands, the money... Read More »
Top Shop opens in The Netherlands
Fashion king Topshop takes it’s first step in the Netherlands. Topshop, part of UK Arcadia Group, is a household name in Britain and has branches in twenty other countries. In June a ‘store within a store ‘Topshop will be opened in a branch of the exclusive SPRMRKT in Amsterdam. Topshop now operates mainly in the low-priced, trendy segment of the... Read More »
Activists destroy scientific trial
Around three hundred activists have destroyed a scientific trial for potatoes yesterday. Despite the attendance of sixty police officers, they succeeded. The action in Wetteren, near Ghent, was meant against research on genetically modified food. Demonstrators climbed over fences, sprayed the field with pesticides en ripped the potato plants out. Flemish media reported that today. The police caught numerous… Read More »
Mortgage holders DSV put to extra costs
25.000 private housing proprietors with a mortgage at the bankrupt DSB Bank will be confronted with an extra high mortage interest or a high leave fine. That is the consequence of the interest rate policy that the curators have determined and old, unfavorable consumer conditions of the former DSB Bank. Vereniging Eigen Huis stated that on Wednesday. In both cases... Read More »
