Sunday, August 29, 2004

Couldn't they have come up with a cooler name for it though?

Chinese mega-ship makes maiden call at Long Beach. The COSCO Long Beach, the biggest ship in the fleet of China's largest shipping company completed its first trans-Pacific journey on August 25th, arriving in the Port of Long Beach, California. The ship is more than three football fields long and will carry 8,000 containers. China has been making a huge push to increase its domestic ship-building capacity, an industry largely dominated by Korean and Japanese firms (read Hyundai and Mitsubishi). In fact, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation recently announced its intentions to work more closely with the Japanese to help close the technological and industrial gaps. Lets just hope they don't name the rest of their ships after bad neighborhoods in L.A.