Taiwan Supertanker Comes to Rescue

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Tom Breen and Jay Reeves, World's largest oil skimmer heads to Gulf spill.
Associated Press, June 30, 2010.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIXWYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9GLV2700

Note: TMT Co. Ltd 台灣海陸運輸股份有限公司 (formerly known as 信榮海陸運輸股
份有限公司 (in Chinese; For its original English name, see (c) below)

(a) headquartered at
台北巿松山區復興北路１６７號１２樓
12Fl., No.167, Fu Hsin N. Rd., Songshan Dist., Taipei 105

105 is the zip code for 松山區.

(b) The AP report mentions "the company's CEO and founder, Nobu Su" 蘇 信吉.

The word "Nobu" is Japanese pronunciation for 信. For example, Oda Nobunaga
織田 信長.

(c) TMT homepage:

http://www.tmtship.com/
("Today Makes Tomorrow" (TMT) was founded as [in English] "Taiwan Marine
Transport," which bears the same TMT acronym as our current name")

(d) For a photograph of A Whaler, see
http://commoditysurge.blogspot.com/2010/07/giant-oil-skimmer-coming-to-gulf.html

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