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Imabari Shipbuilding currently operates nine ship building and maintenance facilities as well as marketing offices in Tokyo and Amsterdam. [citation needed]Plans were announced in January 2015 to build a new purpose-built dry dock facility at Marugame for the fabrication of a new generation of container ships in excess of 20,000 TEU. [5]
After World War II, Fujinagata was restored to private ownership and recovered by building fishing vessels, merchant vessels and tankers. In 1962, it completed its first LNG carrier. In October 1967, the company was purchased by Mitsui Shipbuilding and Engineering, thus ending its long history as the oldest independent shipbuilder in Japan.
BAE Systems Maritime - Naval Ships (2008–present) [34] Isle of Wight. East Cowes. J Samuel White (1700s–1963) Wight Shipyard; Kent. Northfleet Shipyard (1788–1816) London. Chiswick: Thornycroft (1866–1908) Leamouth: Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company (1837–1912) Rotherhithe: The Pageants (1700s) [38] London and Glasgow ...
When Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan in 1853, using naval pressure to open up Japan to foreign trade, Yokosuka was a quaint, native fishing village. In 1860, Lord Oguri Kozukenosuke, Minister of Finance to the Tokugawa Shogunate Government, decided that "If Japan is to assume an active role in world trade, she must have proper facilities to build and maintain large seagoing vessels."
JDS Ise (DDH-182) at JMU's Dry Dock No.4, Kure, Hiroshima. Japan Marine United Corporation (ジャパン マリンユナイテッド株式会社, Japan Marine United Kabushiki-kaisha) (informally JMU) is a Japanese ship building marine engineering and service company headquartered in Yokohama, Japan.
In response, the company repositioned itself to specialize in building handymax and panamax bulk carriers. [2] The company has built 400 bulk carriers and delivers about 25 new ships annually to a worldwide client base. [1] As of March 2018, the company has annual revenues of 116,000,000,000 Yen and a staff of 1344 full-time employees. [1]
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Narasaki Senpakukogyo Limited or Narasaki Shipbuilding or Narasaki Zosen is a small shipbuilder located in Muroran, Hokkaidō, Japan. It was part of the Narasaki Sangyo Company Limited. Although still building vessels, the company is now focused on other product lines.