Air cargo the area surrounding the city and thus land access. As this access was closed, in the so-called Berlin blockade, an airlift remained the only option to get increasingly urgent deliveries of food, coal, and other supplies to West Berlin. Over 330 days to 12 May 1949 a total of 2.26 million tons of cargo were airlifted to Berlin, an average of 6,800 tons a day, 80% by the US and 20% by the UK. Although freight traffic developed modestly, reaching only 800,000 tonnes worldwide by the mid-1950s, the world economy was hitting its post-war stride. Germany and Japan were emerging
70000 Tons of Metal Metal Cruise", Frank Godla, Metal Injection, 2017, (English)<br> "70,000 Tons of Metal - exclusif! L'aventure vécue par Matt Asselberghs - guitariste de Nightmare", Metallian, March, 2017, (French)<br> "70,000 Tons of Metal, Day 1 Recap — The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise", My Global Mind, February 26, 2017, (English)<br> The eighth edition of 70000 Tons of Metal set sail on February 1–5, 2018 from Port Everglades, Florida to Cockburn Town, Turks and Caicos Islands and back on board the MS Independence of the Seas. 70000 Tons of Metal 2018 featured 61 artists, performing 123 live concerts on board. The event sold