Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Wins Order for World's Largest Ferris Wheel to be Built in Singapore.Tokyo, Japan, Sept 16, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI MHI Manufactured Housing Institute MHI Montreal Heart Institute (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) MHI Median Household Income MHI Main Hawaiian Islands MHI Material Handling Institute ) has won an order from Singapore Flyer This article or section contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. PTE Ltd PTE LTD Private Limited . to build a giant ferris wheel at a shopping mall to be constructed in the Marina Bay Area in Singapore. The wheel will have 28 large cabins, each of which will be able to accommodate 28 people. Slated for completion in February 2008, the wheel will become the world's largest at 150m in diameter, surpassing the current world&s biggest 135m-diameter London Eye wheel in London. Although Japanese trading giant Mitsubishi Corp. and Takenaka Corp. have won the 10 billion yen ($91 mil) shopping mall development project, MHI will be in charge of the production and deployment of the wheel. The new wheel will feature a large self-rotating cabin floor stability system, which keeps the cabin's floor horizontal to the ground level. The wheel will complete one rotation in 30 minutes. Source: JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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