In 2013, Kiyoshi Kimura, the owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain, paid $1.76 million for the first bluefin at Tsukiji, which weighed 489 pounds. Kimura had paid $736,000âa world-record price at the timeâfor the first tuna of 2012. That fish weighed 593 pounds.
Shanghai International Port, China. The Shanghai harbor opened in 1842 as a treaty port. It faces the East China Sea to the east and Hangzhou Bay to the south. Back in the early 20th century, Shanghai became not only the largest city in the Far East, but the largest port too.
NIKOLAY CHIKER at 40,000 hp the world's largest, most powerful salvage tug, towed the 67,000 dwt Kuznetsov-class carrier from the Aegean Sea to Dalian, China, successfully handing over the vessel after waiting on 3rd March 2002 for fog to clear off the Chinese coast.