Engineering experts determined in February that corrosion of the metal cables supporting the Genoa highway bridge had reduced the bridge’s...
2018 catastrophes News
Industry insured losses from the flooding in western Japan caused by excessive rainfall from June 28 to July 8, 2018,...
The bridge that collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa was considered a feat of engineering innovation when it...
Fallout from the Genoa bridge disaster has erased about $2 billion of net worth from one of Italy’s richest families....
Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern...
An engineering study commissioned by Italian highway operator Autostrade last year warned about the state of the concrete-encased cable stays...
Global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during the first half of 2018 were US$20 billion, down from...
Italy’s biggest toll-road operator came under heavy stock-market attack on Thursday after Rome criticized it for a deadly bridge collapse...
Rescuers hunted for survivors among towering slabs of wreckage on Wednesday after a bridge collapse that killed 39, as furious...
A bridge on the main highway running down the Italian Mediterranean coast collapsed in Genoa, with the death toll reported...