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Agreement in the field of the naval planning between Maritime Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Odense Technology
The Japanese group and the Danish society will cooperate to the development of projects of ships of various types
February 5, 2014
The Japanese navalmeccanico group Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHOS) has signed an agreement with the Odense Danish Maritime Technology (OMT), society of naval planning that is under responsibility of the Danish group Valcon and that it has been born in 2010 as spin-off of the Odense Steel Shipyard, shipbuilding society that took part of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk and that the activity in 2012 has stopped.
The understanding previews the cooperation in the field of the naval planning with the objective to develop to new types of ships let alone to plan portacontainer - segment in which both the companies have a consolidated experience - ships portarinfuse and ships liquefied gas tankers.
MHOS will take care mainly of the aspects of the naval propulsion, included the form of the hulls, the tests with the employment of models and of the development of systems of energetic control and propellers, while OMT will take care of the ideazione and drawing up of the base planning doing again itself to the projects of hulls elaborated from the Japanese group.
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