Car Carrier Tianjin Highway Delivered

Nov. 10, 2005

Car Carrier Tianjin Highway Delivered

 Tokyo, November 10, 2005 – Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation announced today that it delivered the Tianjin Highway car carrier, with a capacity of 5,000 cars, to the River Spring Corporation at Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering, Co., Ltd. (NACKS) on November 8. The carrier, identified as Kawasaki hull No. 1554, is the second of three vessels being built at NACKS for the same project.

 The roll-on/roll-off pure car carrier has 12-layer car decks with two rampways to facilitate the loading and unloading of large cars driven to/from ports. The vessel is also designed to flexibly serve mixed loading of different types of vehicles, including buses and trucks.