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The Khian Sea waste disposal incident was an incident in maritime waste disposal. The Liberian cargo ship Khian Sea was loaded with 14,000 tons of ash from waste incinerators in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in August 1986. After searching futilely for a place to dump the waste, the ship eventually dumped 4,000 tons near Gonaïves, Haiti in ...
The Port international de Port-au-Prince ( UN/LOCODE: HTPAP [1]) is the seaport in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. It suffered catastrophic damage in the 2010 Haiti earthquake . Some of docks and warehouses are operated by the government's Autorité Portuaire Nationale (APN), and some are run by private companies.
7 July 2018. ( 2018-07-07) – present (6 years, 1 month and 4 days) Location. Haiti. Caused by. Misuse of loans from Venezuela ( Petrocaribe) and social inequality. Rising taxes on gasoline, diesel, and kerosene, and poor living conditions. Corruption, impunity.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.
Julia Ainsley. March 15, 2024 at 4:30 PM. Despite extreme violence, political instability and hunger engulfing Haiti, the United States is continuing to return Haitian migrants interdicted at sea ...
The United States has sent a major Coast Guard vessel to patrol the waters near Port-au-Prince in a “sign of resolve” with the Haitian government as gang violence continues to grip the nation ...
By 26 January, the U.S. military had 17,000 personnel in and around Haiti. [5] Between the beginning of relief efforts and 18 February the US Air Force had delivered nearly 6,000 support members and 19 million pounds of cargo while evacuating 15,000 American citizens and conducted aeromedical evacuations for 223 critical Haitian patients. [6]
The U.S. envoy to the United Nations is traveling to Haiti on Monday, said U.S. officials, a month after the first contingent of Kenyan police arrived in the Caribbean country as part of an ...