Word: mitsubishi
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...them. Since 1968, the oil companies have put into service twelve ships of 200,000 tons or more-called "oilbergs"-and they have 170 more on order in yards from Bilbao to Yokohama. Last week California Standard contracted for a pair of 260,000-tonners from Japan's Mitsubishi. Britain's Scott Lithgow group two weeks ago landed its first order for an oilberg, a 250,000-tonner to be constructed for Anglo Norness, a Bermuda-based shipping company. The builder will launch the huge ship in two sections and weld them together in the water...
Last week Chrysler Corp. got a toehold by making a "general agreement" with Mitsubishi, Japan's second largest industrial corporation, to set up a joint company in which Chrysler would have a 35% share. The government in Tokyo will have to approve the deal, and is not likely to be quick about it. The two firms hope to collaborate on some research, then move on to marketing each other's cars in Japan and the U.S. Later, they might join in assembling Chrysler cars in Japan. Ford also started negotiating in earnest last week with Japan...
...TECHNOLOGY. U.S. technological superiority means less than before. Lawrence Fox, a high official of the Commerce Department, observes that "foreigners today can either buy, lease or steal American research advances." Li censing of foreign manufacturers is rising. Last week, for example, B.F. Goodrich licensed Tokyo's Mitsubishi to use a vinyl-chloride chemical process, for which the Japanese firm will build a whole new plant...
...capitalists after much dickering over terms signed an agreement under which Japanese banks will grant a $133 million, five-year loan at 5.8% to enable the Russians to develop Siberian timber cutting. In addition, a consortium of 13 Japanese companies, including such big trading firms as Mitsui and Mitsubishi, will be allowed to sell $30 million worth of consumer goods to Russian settlers in Siberia. As repayment of the loan and to cover its interest, the Russians over a five-year period will ship 8,020,000 cubic feet of timber to Japan. With housing chronically short in Japan...
Among those watching the cross-channel undertaking most closely are Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Buffalo-based Bell Aerosystems Co. Both companies manufacture their own ACV versions, also serve as British Hovercraft licensees. The fledgling industry's leader, British Hovercraft, was formed in 1966 by Westland Aircraft Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., and the government-run National Research and Development Corp., which together have pumped $48 million into the craft's development...