A Russian, the first of nine charter flights due to ferry in nine hundred tonnes of rice over the next two weeks.

She weighs in at 434 tonnes (868,000 lbs) and is 33.31 meters long.

Lysine production for animal feed is a major global industry, reaching in 2009 almost 700,000 tonnes for a market value of over €1.22 billion.

All figures, other than percentages, are in million tonnes.

In September 2007, a large fire at the landfill site just outside the village resulted in 100 tonnes of rubber burning for two days.

Most road users only venture out here when encased in at least two tonnes of steel.

It continues to operate after being dragged behind a vehicle at 120mph, buried in two tonnes of rubble and then left underwater for six hours.

The ship was rebuilt in 1946 to 648 gross tonnes but taken out of services and destroyed in 1969.

The company has saved £100,000 a year in water and energy costs and 70 tonnes in annual ghg emissions.

Damages to vegetation resulted in 544 tonnes (600 tons) of debris.