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- <text id=89TT0353>
- <title>
- Feb. 06, 1989: Business Notes:Pacific Trade
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 06, 1989 Armed America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 55
- Business Notes
- PACIFIC TRADE
- A 60-m.p.h. Cargo Ship
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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