Monday, August 11, 2008

Taiwan's Evergreen shelves Chinese shipyard plans

Taiwan's Evergreen Group has recently said it has shelved plans to invest in a Chinese shipyard due to weak market conditions.

With the change of the market, current timing is not good to diversity into shipbuilding industry, the company said in a written reply to Reuters' questions. Evergreen had intended to form a shipbuilding joint venture in the southern Chinese port city of Quanzhou with the local government. The planned shipyard would have had the capacity to make ships of 350,000 tonnes and would have been ready to start production in 2011.
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