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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]
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Kanadevia quickly restarted operations as a builder of fishing vessels and coastal transports. By 1955, Kanadevia had emerged as one of the largest shipbuilders in Japan. The company also expanded into other markets. In 1957, as part of a technical cooperation with B&W Diesel in Denmark, Hitachi built the world’s largest diesel engine.
The Maizuru Naval District was established at Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture in 1889, as the fourth of the naval districts responsible for the defense of the Japanese home islands. After the establishment of the navy base, a ship repair facility was established in 1901 with a dry dock. With the addition of equipment and facilities for ship ...
The company's main offices and shipyard are located in Oshima, on Oshima island, Saikai City, Nagasaki Prefecture, close to the entrance to Sasebo bay. Because of the shipyard presence, Oshima is nicknamed "the town of shipbuilding', although the island has many natural features.
In 1948, Mitsui E&S built the first Japan-built ship to be exported after the loss of the Second World War, S.S.Knurr (a Norwegian whaling ship). In 1951, it started its chemical plants business by building a nylon production plant for Toray Industries. [6] In 1961, it built 'the world's first automated ship' Kinkasan maru (金華山丸）for ...
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With the First Sino-Japanese War, the two shipyards were flooded with new orders and ship repair requests. [2] The two shipyards were merged in 1896 as the Kawasaki Dockyard Company, Ltd . Realizing the limitation of private management, Kawasaki decided to take the company public , and (as he had no son) chose Matsukata Kojiro , the third son ...