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'K Line' Launches Coal Carrier for Electric Power Development Co. (J-Power).


Tokyo, Japan, July 4, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News
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) - Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, or 'K Line', launched an 88,000 DWT DWT
abbr.
1. deadweight tonnage

2. deadweight tons
 coal carrier, the JP GUNJO, at the Marugame Shipyard of Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. on June 29th for Electric Power Development Company (J-Power).

The name 'JP GUNJO' is derived from 'J-Power'and from the Japanese word 'gunjo', which evokes the color of the sea, especially the deep blue ocean at Matsuura, Nagasaki, where J-Power's thermal power station A thermal power station comprises all of the equipment and systems required to produce electricity by using a steam generating boiler fired with fossil fuels or biofuels to drive an electrical generator.  is located.

JP GUNJO is the same type of ship as K Line's original Corona Corona, city, United States
Corona (kərō`nə), city (1990 pop. 76,095), Riverside co., S Calif.; inc. 1896. The city developed as a primary citrus fruit producer and shipping center. There is also light manufacturing.
 series fleet for transporting thermal coal. The Corona-series, which K Line originated and continues to develop, consists of epoch-making coal carriers equipped with a wide beam and shallow draft, which are the most suitable type to enter ports of domestic thermal power stations to discharge cargo.

The new coal carrier, which incorporates all latest specifications, will replace the 'SUIREI MARU', which has been used by J-Power since 1996, and will be principally involved in long-term Long-term

Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year.


long-term

1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term.
 service carrying thermal coal to EPDC's seven thermal power stations, which are located all over Japan.

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