The Israeli purchasing mission here made public today details on the first two vessels to be supplied Israel under the terms of the reparations pact.
One vessel will be a 7,000 ton freighter built especially to handle citrus exports while the second, a 10,000 ton vessel, will be able to transport 7,000 tons of citrus fruit and 300 passengers. Both will be built in Hamburg for the Zim Navigation Company of Haifa and both will be ready late in 1954. The passenger-cargo ship will be placed in service on the Haifa-New York run.
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