Japan Marine United
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 Headquarters Yokohama Blue Avenue | |
| Company type | PublicKK |
|---|---|
| Industry | Shipbuilding |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Headquarters | Yokohama,Kanagawa,Japan |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Kotaro Chiba(President and CEO) Yoshio Otagaki(Representative Director) |
| Parent | JFE Holdings:35% IHI Corporation:35% Imabari Shipbuilding:35% Hitachi Zosen Corporation:8.15% |
| Divisions | Merchant Ship Naval Ship Offshore & Engineering Ship Life Cycle |
| Website | www.jmuc.co.jp |
Japan Marine United Corporation(ジャパン マリンユナイテッド chu thức hội xã,Japan Marine United Kabushiki-kaisha)(informallyJMU) is a Japaneseship buildingmarine engineering and service company headquartered inYokohama,Japan.
It's Japan’s second largest shipbuilder afterImabari Shipbuilding,with shipyard facilities inKure, Hiroshima,Yokohama,Nagasu, Kumamoto,Maizuru,Kyoto and Mie prefectures.
JMU's products include the design, manufacture, purchase and sale of both merchant and naval ships, offshore engineering and ship life cycle services.
History[edit]
Osaka Iron Works (Hitachi Zosen) established in 1881. Nippon Kokan (NKK) established byAsano zaibatsuin 1912. Both united and became Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in 2002.
Ishikawajima Shipyard established in 1853. Uraga Dock (Sumitomo Heavy Industries) established in 1893. Both united and became IHI Marine United in 2002, part of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., later renamedIHI Corporation
Universal Shipbuilding Corporation andIHIMarine United Inc. united and became Japan Marine United in 2013.[1][2]
On January 1, 2021, JMU (with 49% of shares) merged into a new joint venture withImabari Shipbuilding(with 51% of shares) namedNihon Shipyardcovering all ship types exceptLNG carriers,[3]which are designed and sold byMI LNG Company,established as a joint venture ofMitsubishi Heavy Industriesand Imabari Shipbuilding.[4]In parallel, Imabari Shipbuilding bought 35% of JMU's shares. The cooperation between these two Japanese companies make it one of the largest marine engineering and shipbuilding company in the world.
References[edit]
- ^"About IHI".IHI Corporation.IHI Corporation.Retrieved15 May2015.
- ^https://www.jmuc.co.jp/en/company/history/Japan Marine United
- ^"Nihon Shipyard, a JV of Imabari and JMU, formally launched".6 January 2021.
- ^"Tam lăng trọng công と kim trị tạo thuyền, LNG vận bàn thuyền の thiết kế ・ phiến mại hợp biện hội xã を thiết lập で hợp ý".レスポンス ( Response.jp )(in Japanese).Retrieved2023-03-09.
External links[edit]
- (in Japanese)Official site
- (in English)English part of the official site