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Harrington Company orders ships from Xsampan shipyards
As part of its continued pursuit to 'friend-shore', the Harrington Company announced that it was ordering container ships to be built in Xsampan shipyards, as the nation's shipbuilding sector begins to take flight

ⓘ: One of the many shipyards popping up throughout Xsampa as the nation pivots aggressively to shipbuilding

Although the Green Compact and the otherwise hostile environment created for fossil fuels, the age of fossil-fuel powered shipping is not dead, despite the efforts of the nation’s ardent environmentalists. Having argued for a transition that would enable the entity to seemingly glide into broader adherence to the Green Compact, the Harrington Company recently announced its intention to order seven container ships from a Xsampan-based shipyard, in stark contrast to recent reports within the freight transport sector that the construction of fossil-fuel-powered diesel-electric locomotives had halted construction. In a press release issued earlier this morning, Chief Factor of the Harrington Company, Dr Allen Vincent, announced that the Harrington Company had ordered the construction of seven large container ships from the Xsampan shipyard as the entity seeks to expand its reach into the Dovanian economic core. The statement noted that broader market trends, particularly the mounting investment in both Xsampa and Bianjie in the development of new sectors for economic growth, had become an encouraging sign that the company ought to begin arguing the case for the Lodamese Government to pay more attention to trade and economic developments in the region. “There was once a sentiment that we have excited in the Eastern or Dovanian century. Although much of that has since passed, the Harrington Company believes that there are inherent opportunities to be realised in nations such as Xsampa,” the HC’s statement read. Xsampa’s nascent shipbuilding industry stands to benefit significantly from these broader regional ambitions, as the Metok Government is backing the nation’s drive towards a coordinated expansion of industrial capacity under its ‘50 years of Progress in 5’ agenda. With shipbuilding having been identified as a major industry, the HC’s decision to order ships from the nation’s rising shipyards is thus put into context. The ordered container ships will be constructed in a region where production capacities are increasing rapidly. Although the Harrington Company had made commitments to adhere to the Green Compact, the company noted that it was unrealistic for the entity to adhere to such an aggressive timeline, notwithstanding the fact that much of the technology which had been promised amidst the transition had not arrived. “We have not made the necessary investments into alternative engines for container ships as we ought to have. Much of the HC’s fleet continues to run on diesel-electric engines. We have not seen the wave of technology promised that would make the transition away from fossil fuels and into renewables easier,” the HC’s statement also read. With decades, if not centuries of experience in shipbuilding underneath its belt, the Harrington Company has noted that it is willing to provide Xsampan shipyards with the much-needed technical assistance to see the container ships through their construction and hopeful launch, as it noted that it had no intention of acting as a ‘helicopter customer’, persistently watching over the shoulders of Xsampa’s shipbuilders. It is estimated that the cost of the vessels hovers around a combined 680 million LOD, which the company notes is more expensive than, say, regional shipyards in Lodamun and Kalistan. Nonetheless, it acknowledged the fact that with economies of scale, the price will eventually level out and the Xsampan shipyards could soon directly compete with Lodamese and Kalistani shipyards in terms of sheer amount of orders and productive capacity.