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As its name suggests, it features a hull shape that provides excellent fuel efficiency for economic performance, along with versatility that makes it easy to deploy. Unlike the customized production that was common in the shipbuilding industry up to that time, the company had developed a ready-made model, for more efficient shipbuilding. This economical standard ship shape was based on market research. In 2004, we developed the KAMSARMAX bulker as a new ready-made ship in the Panamax class. This was the largest ship capable of passing through the Panama Canal, an important international shipping node. This bulker overturned conventional industry thinking at the time, since the largest possible Panamax-class vessels were considered to be the 70,000-ton class. By increasing the loading capacity to 82,000 tons, transportation efficiency was significantly improved. 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