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Article: New Caledonia buys 22-million-dollar vessel from Cebu shipbuilder.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- May 17, 2008
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CEBU CITY, May 17 (PNA) Officials of the South Province of New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands have ordered one passenger-vehicle ferry worth US$ 22 million from the Balamban, Cebu-based shipbuilding firm FBMA Marine Inc., an Aboitiz-owned company.
Alain Descombels, president of the commission of economic development of New Caledonia South Province, said the group chose to have FBMA Marine manufacture the vessel that will connect the major islands in the French overseas territory.
We ordered from the FBMA because they have a special designed boat for rough seas like those between the islands in New Caledonia, Descombels told reporters at the Shangri-Las ...