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- BUSINESS, Page 55Business NotesPACIFIC TRADEA 60-m.p.h. Cargo Ship
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- The freighter of the future will skim across the water at
- nearly 60 m.p.h., as fast as Don Johnson's speedboat in Miami
- Vice. But the craft will be 265 ft. long and carry as much as
- 1,000 tons of cargo. Last week the Japanese government decided
- to develop such a freighter for commerce between Japan and its
- Asian neighbors.
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- The proposed Techno-Superliner, 2 1/2 times as fast as any
- current container ship, would be propelled by water jets and
- powered by gas-turbine engines. Advocates of the liner
- (estimated cost: $79 million) hope it will revive Japan's
- flagging shipyards. Further in the future: a Techno-Superliner
- that could run from Japan to the U.S. in three days.
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