The Archive · 1938

Shanghai Run

Tokyo, Jan. 1

Another crack liner, a 7.000-10n passenger ship. will be built by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha for its Japan-Shanghai run, Domei learned to-day Four 4,500-ton freighters. also destined for the same route, are already under construction in dockyards -in Kobe and Osaka, When these five ships are completed. the MYK. will have 14 vessels of the aggregate displacement of 57.000 tons on the Japan-Shanghai run.

Officials of the concern predicted that in a year's time ships will sail for Shanghai from Kobe every other day, from Yokohama every four days. and from Nagasaki three times a

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