The world’s largest shipyard has been opened by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Nagasaki. Japan, at a cost of about $NZ100m. The shipyard is nearly three-quarters of a mile long, and 110 yards wide. Equipped with two 600-ton gantry cranes, it can build three mammoth tankers at once.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33068, 8 November 1972, Page 26
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47The world’s largest shipyard has been opened by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Nagasaki. Japan, at a cost of about $NZ100m. The shipyard is nearly three-quarters of a mile long, and 110 yards wide. Equipped with two 600-ton gantry cranes, it can build three mammoth tankers at once. Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33068, 8 November 1972, Page 26
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