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M/V AIDASTELLA - IMO 9601132 - belongs to AIDA Cruise and is put on the service calling every Tuesday in Le Havre

The German cruising company AIDA Cruises makes stop in Le Havre its most recent series of cruise ships. The AIDAstella belongs to the (head of) serie that bears the name of the first built, the AIDAdiva. The company AIDA Cruises is the German subsidiary of the Italian cruise company Costa Crociere, itself subsidiary of the American company Carnival Group, based in Miami - Florida and considered as the world's leading company for the Cruise Maritime market.

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M/V MAGELLAN - IMO 8217881 - navigating up the river Seine towards Rouen, Normandy - France

The British company CMV makes stop in Le Havre various series of steamers. The MAGELLAN ship belongs to the (head of) serie that bears her name as the first one built. The company Cruise & Maritime Voyages is considered as the largest English company in the cruise sector. She is based in Purfleet, Essex - United Kingdom.

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The Normandy Bridge is the first bridge in maritime format when we go up the Seine towards Rouen

Yesterday, the department of the Seine-Maritime which begins a little before Rouen and ends in Le Havre had only two bridges over the Seine : the bridge "William the Conqueror" (commissioned in 1970) which connects the right bank to the left bank inside the city of Rouen and the bridge of Tancarville (commissioned in 1959) which connects the "Marais-Vernier" with Tancarville in the first cove of the Seine when one leaves the bay of Seine.

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Charles de FREYCINET had been Minister several times and president of the Council

The Freycinet gauge has become a European standard governing the size of the locks of certain canals, established by a French law of the program of Charles de Freycinet dated August 5, 1879.

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A scrubber is a heavy system for filtering the exhaust gases of ships

A "scrubber" is a system for filtering exhaust gases from heavy-fueled ships' engines.