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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will put into effect the spin-off of the activities of shipbuilding
On 1° October two new societies will be created that will become operating in the district of Nakasaki
February 4, 2015
The Japanese industrial group Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHOS) has announced today the decision to put into effect the spin-off of own activities in the navalmeccanico field through the constitution the next 1° October of two new societies near the shipbuilding plant to Koyagi, in the district of Nakasaki, Nakasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works, branch of the MHOS.
The first new company will take care of the activities of shipbuilding and the second one of the realization of the blocks of the hulls. Moreover the plan previews the transfer of the activities of construction of commercial ships of great dimensions, currently centralized in the ship yards of Nakasaki and Saiwaimachi (district of Nakasaki), near the two new societies and the separation of the activities of construction of cruise ships from that of the construction of other commercial ships.
The new society of shipbuilding will succeed to the MHOS Ship & Ocean Engineering Co., branch of the group MHOS, and will take care of all the phases of the construction of ships, included the activities of engineering and sale, let alone of the activities of naval repair. The Japanese group has specified that the construction activities will be centralized in the segments of the ships for the gas and which liquified natural gas transport of which liquified oil, for which is attended shortly a remarkable increase of the question.
The second new society, besides to under construction produce blocks of hulls for ships near the yards of MHOS, promuoverà also their sale to external customers to the group.
MHOS have specified that variations to the operations of construction of commercial ships near the plant Shimoneseki Shipyard & Machinery Works neither to the activities of construction of ships near the yard of Nakasaki on behalf of the Japanese ministry of the Defense will not be put into effect.
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