Work on building the €10m 30m (98ft) solar-powered trimaran yacht PlanetSolar is progressing well at Knierim Shipyard in Kiel, Germany. The world’s largest vessel of her type is due to start a global circumnavigation in April 2011, with an estimated travelling time of 140 days. The yacht is due to be launched in January and will undertake a tour of European cities prior to the world trip. Next month, in advance of the float out, the two side hulls will have blocks of batteries with a total power rating of …

China and India have always been known to be at par with each other in almost every case other than Boat Building. This time around the competition is between China & Taiwan.
Taiwan and china are the news boat building hubs which according to this article are even competing with the likes of Europe and America.

Pricing and labor costs are certainly one of the key factors which are responsible for competing with other international markets. And why not when you can get the same size of yacht for 1/3 rd the …