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Express ship fleet in the making
National shipping giant Vinashin has submitted a project on building a modern marine Express fleet for the North-South route at a total cost of over 19.6 trillion VND to the Government for consideration.
The amount of money has been designed to invest in six liners over four years up to 2011, consisting of two large-sized ones capable of carrying 2,700 passengers and 900 vehicles aboard each and four small-sized ones with a capacity of 1,000 passengers and 600 vehicles each.
In the early stage, Vinashin plans to buy ships from Italy to draw experiences in managing passenger-cargo liners but later it will build ships at home.
The investment is projected to largely come from the issuance of bonds and loans.
Late 2007, Vinashin imported a 60 million Euro ship from Italy to test-run the North-South route. The liner, named Lotus, is capable of transporting 630 passengers, 100 small vehicles and 153 container lorries.
VNA
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