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Shipping Route?
One of the largest shipping routes on earth is now up for offers. The US Trust Territory of Micronesia is seeking takers for a 10-year contract to provide a direct shipping service from the US west coast, and to service the Trust Territory’s six scattered districts: the Mariana Islands, the Marshalls, and Yap, Palau, Truk and Ponape in the Caroline Islands.
Micronesia recently handed out air rights on the same basis (see p. 45) and the administration says it hopes to “elicit com parable imaginative and dynamic proposals for sea transportation’