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The deal is understood to be one of the single largest transactions ever between the two countries. It reflects growing interest by

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MES has also augmented its bulk- er workload with a 75,000-dwt

Panamax unit to be built at Chiba for Naples-based Augustea

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Another trademark of the type is the installation of two traveling gantry cranes on the upper deck, conferring cargo handling self-suf- ficiency across the range of freight transported.

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With the sale of Hayashikane

Shipbuilding by the Taiyo Fishing

Co. to the Evergreen Group sever- al years ago, the Taiwan-based organization obtained a stake in the vibrant industry on Kyushu

Island. Evergreen immediately increased the capital of the yard, which had originally traded as

Taiyo Zosen, invested in new work- shops and other facilities and raised the productivity of the premises.

The development policy has been vindicated by the increasing effica- cy of the yard in Nagasaki, which has emerged as a primary source of feeder and intra-regional con- tainership capacity for the parent group in Taipei. As Evergreen

Heavy Industrial Corp. (EHIC), it has been charged with construc- tion of 10 vessels of the 1,164-TEU

A-class, and is set to take on an additional 10-ship program involv- ing a new larger type, designated the P-class. The first three repre- sentatives of the A-class were com- missioned by Evergreen, and all subsequent vessels in the series are to the account of the affiliated company Uniglory Marine

Corporation. Following the sched- uled delivery in April 1999 of Uni-

Assure, EHIC plans to focus on the new 1,420-TEU P-class, with the first of the envisaged 10 for

Uniglory expected in July 1999 and the last due in October 2001.

The P-type will replace vessels of 860 to 960 TEU built in the 1970s and deployed on Uniglory's Asia service network. Earlier, it had been thought that EHIC would go forward into the next decade with a 2,000-TEU type, which had fig- ured among fleet projects consid- ered by the group.

Containership Technology

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While certain yards in Denmark and Germany continue to have a major impact on containership technology at the upper end of the

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