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Korean shipbuilders' misfortunes prove their Japanese rivals right
(Shipping Times)
March 17, 1998
[TOKYO]
Japan's world-leading shipbuilders are quietly celebrating the Asian financial crisis as they watch their main rival crumble.
Japan has for the last 20 years been the world's largest shipbuilder, driven first -- as a group of islands -- by its reliance on sea transport and then by its rapid economic development.
But South Korea's shipbuilders threw ...... Read more on Shipping Times
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