Two Ships to Be Larger Than E. of Japan Tokyo, May 20.
Japan will move to the forefront in trans-Pacific shipping when two 78000-ton liners, now under construction at Nagasaki, will be completed, Nippon Yusen Kaisha officials revealed here today.
The vessels, which will be named Kasiwara Maru and Izumo Maru, are expected to be launched y next year. In size they will exceed the Empress of Japan, 26,032-ton Caladian Pacific liner, which is now the largest steamer in operation on the Pacific, Meantime, the Nitta Maru, one of three new Orient-Europe liners built by the N.Y.K. slid down the way at the Mitsubishi dockyard i Nagasaki this morning.—Domei.
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