Taipei Times
Date: May 30, 2016
By: Lo Tien-pin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Taiwan’s largest shipbuilding company called on the nation’s three major
Hung Shen Propeller Co president Cheng Cheng-i displays some of the firm’s propellers at its factory in Pingtung County’s Sinyuan Township on Thursday. Photo: Chang Chung-i, Taipei Times
shipbuilders to set aside their differences and band together to achieve the goal set by the administration of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of building submarines.
The Tsai administration has highlighted domestically produced submarines and training aircraft as staples of its national defense policies, with the stated goal of operating a self-built submarine by 2025.
Taiwan Shipbuilding Corp chairman Lai Sun-quae (賴杉桂) said completing such an objective would be a difficult and complex process that would require every ounce of expertise Taiwan has to offer, as well as some foreign support.
Despite being competitors and having some bad blood between them, the nation’s shipbuilders should put aside their differences, as indigenous submarines are a national goal, Lai said. [FULL STORY]
