· Renault Nissan forecasts sales growth in Europe in 2015

According to the latest news from European media Inautonews on December 5th, Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault Nissan Alliance, is optimistic about the European market and claims that Nissan will win 8% of the world market by the end of March 2017.
Nissan Motor Co. intends to have an 8% world market share by the end of March 2017. It is expected that sales growth will come from China and Europe and the United States. Ghosn said that Nissan's market share in China, the United States and India will grow moderately in 2015, while the European market will be more stable, or will rise by 1 to 2 percentage points.
Ghosn also said that he will establish a good partnership with Daimler to benefit the Infiniti luxury car, or will be able to develop production at Daimler Base; Nissan shares components and platforms with Mercedes-Benz; cost.

A Split Hopper Barge (SHB) is a vessel with a large open hold, used to load and transport dredged material. The Barge is loaded by a Cutter Suction Dredger or by a Backhoe Dredger. The barge is self-propelled, and sails to the deposit area, where it unloads the soil. The vessel consists of two halves, and unloading is done by opening, or `splitting`, the two halves, and depositing the soil on the seabed.

A hopper barge is a kind of non-mechanical ship or vessel that cannot move around by itself, unlike some other types of barges, that is designed to carry materials, like rocks, sand, soil and rubbish, for dumping into the ocean, a river or lake for land reclamation.Hopper barges are seen in two distinctive types; raked hopper or box hopper barges. The raked hopper barges move faster than the box hoppers; they are both designed for movement of dry bulky commodities.

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There are several "hoppers" or compartments between the fore and aft bulkhead of the barge. On the bottom of the barge hull, there is (are) also a large "hopper door(s)", opening downwards. The doors are closed while the vessel is moving, so she can carry the materials that are to be dumped. The door(s) open when the ship has arrived at the spot where the materials are to be dumped.

Split barges serve the same purpose, but instead of a door in the hull's bottom, the hull of the whole barge splits longitudinally between the end bulkheads. The vessel consists of two major parts (port and starboard halves), both are mostly symmetrical in design. Both parts of the vessel are hinged at the deck and operated by hydraulic cylinders. When the vessel splits the load is dumped rapidly, which means the barge has to be very stable in order not to capsize or otherwise get damaged.

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