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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has undersigned an agreement of collaboration with the Sinopacific Chinese
the cooperation will be started with the development of a new rinfusiera ship of 82.000 gross capacities in tons
March 14, 2012
The Japanese navalmeccanico group Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHOS) has undersigned an agreement with the Sinopacific Shipbuilding Co. with the objective to supply to the Chinese society technological support in the field of the construction of commercial ships.
The agreement, signed to Tokyo by Hisashi Hara, executive vice president and in charge of the Shipbuilding activity & Ocean Development of MHOS, and by Simon Liang, president and managing director of Sinopacific, initially will have a duration five-year-old, with option in order to extend the period, and the collaboration will be started with the development of a new rinfusiera ship of 82.000 gross capacities in tons.
In particular, the understanding previews that the Japanese company takes care of conceptual the design, included the form of the hull, of a new ship that will be realized by Sinopacific. The project, called "Crown MHOS 82", Crown" from the Chinese group will be based on rinfusiere of produced class "and previews an ulterior increment of the efficiency from the point of view of the consumption and the safeguard of the atmosphere. "The objective of the combined planning with MHOS - it has explained in charge of the technological area of Sinopacific, Zhao Ye - is to ulteriorly reduce the fuel consumption of the ship and previews to reach a level pairs to a reduction of 28 tons to the day. We consider that this will be rather challenging, but realizable".
The planning activity will be capacity to term in the second half of this year and the ship will be constructed in the ship yard Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding Co. of Yangzhou of the Sinopacific group, than it will complete it in 2013.
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