Queensland’s Flood-Powered Currents, Drifting Fridges Shut Ports
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Brisbane, Australia’s third-busiest container port, is among export harbors for coal, cotton, explosives and oil products that remain shut by Queensland’s “raging floodwaters.”
Currents swelled by floods and carrying debris that include “everything from pontoons, to boats, to bins and fridges,” forced the closure of the Port of Brisbane on Jan. 11, Karen Weatherburn, a spokeswoman, said by telephone today. Ship movements at the harbor, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from the central business district of Australia’s third-largest city, won’t resume before Jan. 16.