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National › Kite-powered German container ship enters Yokohama port

The world's first commercial container ship partially powered by a large kite, the Beluga SkySails of Germany, called at Yokohama port Friday and was opened… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Fri, Jul 25 2008

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