Axe falls on Riviera oligarch properties

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Friday, April 15, 2022

Axe falls on Riviera oligarch properties
France’s finance ministry has announced sweeping new freezes of the properties of many oligarchs whose assets had previously been spared from sanctions…

‘Enemy of the State’ Anna Netrebko to sing in Monte-Carlo
One of the world’s leading sopranos, Anna Netrebko, has been invited to sing the title role in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/15/axe-falls-on-riviera-oligarch-properties/

Disruptive Tech Initiative Poised to Tackle Spike in Lost Shipping Cargo

Last month the Felicity Ace caught fire in the mid-Atlantic and had to be abandoned. The cargo ship was carrying over 4,000 luxury cars, including Porsche, Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini models, which insurers estimated to be worth £295 million. It was adrift somewhere south of the Azores for some weeks, assumed to be still burning, before it finally sank. The hazardous lithium-ion batteries, oil and gas contained onboard now sit on the ocean floor.

Felicity Ace reached mainstream news but it is...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/22/disruptive-tech-initiative-poised-to-tackle-spike-in-lost-shipping-cargo/

Car carrier — and Bentleys, Porsches and Lamborghinis — sinks

The car carrier Felicity Ace has sunk — and with it about half a billion dollars worth of luxury vehicles.

“Initial reports from the local salvage team state that the vessel had sunk at around 9 a.m. local time (5 a.m. EST Tuesday) having suffered a list to starboard,” MOL Ship Management Singapore said in a statement. 

According to the incident information center, the Felicity Ace was about 220 nautical miles off the Portuguese Azores in the Atlantic Ocean when it sank. The vessel, owned and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/car-carrier-and-bentleys-porsches-and-lamborghinis-sinks

Carrier transporting luxury cars to US still smoldering in Atlantic

Two large tugs with firefighting equipment were expected to reach a car carrier smoldering off the coast of Portugal on Monday. The Felicity Ace was bound for the United States reportedly bearing Audis, Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Porsches when a fire broke out Wednesday in the Atlantic Ocean about 90 miles southwest of the Azores. 

The Felicity Ace “is still assumed to remain on fire” and was drifting farther south of the islands, MOL Ship Management Singapore said in a statement Monday. 

“Current...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/carrier-transporting-luxury-cars-to-us-still-smoldering-in-atlantic

Details: photographer Marco Carnaroli reconfigures classic cars as abstract art

Carola Syz and Marco Carnaroli with ‘Lagonda.’

Details: photographer Marco Carnaroli reconfigures classic cars as abstract art

By James Brewer

Lamborghini, Bugatti, Ferrari, Morgan, Lagonda, Mille Miglia… a convoy of classic automobiles of desire.

Here are those exalted marques, though, in a way you have never seen them before. They are magically transformed into abstract art when artist-photographer Marco Carnaroli concentrates on intense patterns of car body detail.

Marco zoomed in on surface...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/12/02/details-photographer-marco-carnaroli-reconfigures-classic-cars-as-abstract-art/

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