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The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Japanese upgrades the activity of repair and conversion of cruise ships
In the next weeks two units will enter in the yard Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works
December 12, 2012
The Japanese navalmeccanico group Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHOS) has announced today the intention to upgrade the activity of repair and naval conversion dedicated to the field of the cruise ships in order to pick the opportunities offered from the expansion of the crocieristico market in Asia.
MHOS have emphasized of being the single national navalmeccanica company that constructs cruise ships for foreign companies in its ship yard Nakasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works. In the segment of the repairs and naval conversions, while, the group has acquired orders for work of maintenance and conversion on two cruise ships of Japanese companies that will be executed in the yard Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works between the half of the next month and the end of January 2013: draft of the ships Nippon Maru and Fuji Maru respective of the companies Mitsui O.S.K. Passenger Line (MOPAS) and Nippon Charter Cruise (NCC), that both to the shipowning group Japanese Mitsui O.S.K are under responsibility. Lines (MOL).
It is the Nippon Maru that the Fuji Maru is constructed in the Kobe Shipyard ship yard & Machinery Works of the group MHOS. The Fuji Maru, that it has commissioning in 1989 and has been the first cruise ship constructed in Japan after the second world war, has a tonnage of 23.235 tons, is long 167 meters, wide 24 meters and has 163 cabins. The Nippon Maru, that it has commissioning in 1990, has a tonnage of 22.472 tons, is long 166,65 meters, wide 24 meters and has 202 cabins.
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The Japanese navalmeccanico group Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHOS) has announced today the intention to upgrade the activity of repair and naval conversion dedicated to the field of the cruise ships in order to pick the opportunities offered from the expansion of the crocieristico market in Asia.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
