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26 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News a further advance, to 4.2-million bhp. The new assem- bly shop forms an integral part of an investment strat- egy aimed at boosting the company's marine diesel production to an annual level of 5-million bhp by the 2008 fiscal year. In addition to supplying its own yards at Chiba and Tamano and other Japanese builders, MES is aiming to increase its business as an engine supplier to the international market. A joint venture in China will broaden the company's role in this regard. Due to start manufacturing towards the end of 2007, the CSSC-MES Diesel Company will be 51-percent owned by Hudong Heavy Machinery and 34-percent by the Japanese company, with China State

Shipbuilding Corporation holding a 15-percent stake.

The plant will be located at Nanjun, Shanghai.

Japanese-built for Labrador Run

While Japanese shipbuilding's manifold attributes include the volume production of price-attractive, standard-design bulk carriers, competitiveness in the construction of bespoke tonnage is demonstrated by an impending new delivery for a Canadian transportation project. Fednav's 31,500-dwt icebreaking bulker

Umiak-1, nearing completion at Universal

Shipbuilding Corporation's Maizuru yard, will serve a long-term contract covering the movement of nickel concentrates from the Voisey's Bay mine development

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A six-cylinder Sulzer RT-flex 50 marine diesel engine built at

Wärtsilä's licensee Diesel United Ltd. in Japan.

Mitsubishi Launches Hatsu Smile

On February 4, 2006, Mitsubishi Heavy

Industries' Kobe shipyard launched Hatsu Smile, the fourth in a series of ten 7,024 TEU S-type con- tainer vessels that the shipbuilder is constructing for the Evergreen Group. The ship will be operat- ed by London-headquartered Hatsu Marine Ltd.

Hatsu Smile was named by Mr. Chang Kuo-Cheng (K C Chang), Vice Group Chairman of Evergreen

Group and Chairman of Evergreen Marine Corp.

The honor of cutting the ceremonial rope sending the traditional bottle of champagne against its bow to launch and send the vessel on its way down the slipway was given to Mrs. Kuo Yeh Chiung-Yu, wife of Captain S Y Kuo who is also Vice Group

Chairman for the Evergreen Group. The Evergreen

Group is taking delivery of 18 large post-Panamax containerships over the period 2005 to 2008 - 10 S- types and eight 8,063 TEU C-types. Hatsu Smile is due to be delivered to Hatsu Marine towards the end of May and will commence her maiden voyage to Europe shortly thereafter.

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