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...incredible 2.2 million barrels of crude oil on her route from the Persian Gulf to Ireland, via the Cape of Good Hope. By building her, at a cost of $20 million, IHI in fact broke the record it set itself in 1966 with the 209,000-ton Idemitsu Maru...
...arguments for the leviathan are convincing. For instance, the 150,000-ton Tokyo Maru, the biggest ship now afloat, cost $12 million, or $80 per ton, to build, as against more than $85 for a ship half its size. Because of automation, it can be manned by a crew of 29, which is the same or smaller than the crew of tankers down to 16,500 tons...
Relatively economical with fuel, the Tokyo Maru can carry oil from the Persian Gulf to Japan for $2 a ton, compared to $3 for a 75,000-ton and $4 for a 45,000-ton ship. It is so big that its hold could, in theory, carry the entire Queen Elizabeth if that giant of passengerliners were broken up for scrap...
Like most fishermen, the Japanese crewmen aboard the commercial boat Yoku Maru could not resist a bit of a brag. When the 100-ft. vessel put into Jamaica's Montego Bay last fall, the skipper invited some local sport fishermen aboard. Modestly the Japanese apologized that a mother ship had carted away most of their catch. Then they threw open their lockers. There, stacked like cordwood, were the carcasses of thousands upon thousands of game fish: yellowfin tuna, wahoo, sailfish and blue marlin...
...launching of the Tokyo Maru symbolized a major change in the nature of Japan's long-buoyant economy. Japan lives by trade, and for years that trade was produced chiefly by its light industry, which flooded world markets with cameras, transistor radios and miniature TV sets. Today, by contrast, Japan's heavy industry, particularly steel and shipbuilding, accounts for the major portion of the country's exports. Japanese yards have 7,800,000 tons of new ships under construction or on order, will sell 75% of the total to foreign buyers. Overall, exports rose 27% last year...