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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.