French city rides high on surge in sea and air travel: Saint Nazaire builds 40 percent of the world's cruise ships. New orders for a giant Airbus passenger jet will give city another lift.(World)

The Christian Science Monitor | September 7, 2000 | Copyright

This Atlantic port city is a modern day boomtown, profiting handsomely from the return of an industry once thought to belong to another era - building ocean liners.

At the Chantiers Navales de l'Atlantique here, shipyard workers scurry like white-helmeted bees on no fewer than five ships in various stages of construction. Among the liners is the monumental blue and white Infinity, whose 965-foot length and capacity for 3,450 passengers and crew makes it the largest liner ever built, surpassing even the legendary France, re-baptized Norway, which was constructed here ...

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