1) Ship of Japan 
[container ship] The Kitano is a Japanese container ship. She was launched in Japan in 1990. ==2001 fire== The Kitano left the Port of New York at 0730 on 21 March 2001. At 1600 the Kitano`s crew observed that a container had caught fire. The container that caught fire contained 14 tons of activated carbon pellets impregnated with potassium...