An agreement for the construction in a French shipyard of a new, 10,000-ton passenger vessel, was signed here this week-end between representatives of the Zim-Shoham Israel Navigation Company and a leading French shipbuilding firm, Ateliers and Chantiers de Bretagne.
The vessel, with accommodations for 600 passengers, will be built at a cost of $3,750,000, and will be used in the Israel company’s expanding Mediterranean service. The new ship is expected to be ready for service early in 1961.
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