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Rising Sun of Change “No new ? shing vessel has been (added) during the period,” says the email we get form Japan’s largest seafood company, Maruha Nichiro Corp. A year earlier, they had bought shares in New Zealand out? t, Sanford, which had just chartered a Nordic-looking vessel. Seafood rival, Nissui, had just done the same, buying

New Zealand and Nordic. That all happened after the Naval Architect’s Society of

Japan said a vessel based on the Icelandic design of Reykjavik’s Navis was its Ship of the Year. Expect more of the type, since Miho Shipyard now owns the Navis drawings and is expected to build for more ? shing cooperative clients.

Wakayama Fishery Cooperative

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