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ready ratcheting up payments for energy Shinyo Maru will notably help study size from 350 GT to 2,200 GT American ef? cient engines, power plants and ? sh- vessel operations that include trawling, purse-seiners to 90 GT Japanese-style ing gear (10 percent of current subsidy squid jigging and long-line ? shing. It’s seiners to offshore stern trawlers of from of $1.2 billion, according to a report for the fourth Shinyo Maro since the ? rst in 65 GT to 160 GT. The American trawl- the European Union). 1937, but unlike the others, this one is ers come with a tall, ABA FLEX crane to understood to have two 800 kW electric assist in hauling catch. For the 3,496 GT

YARD ACTIVITY motors and Dutch acoustic survey equip- seiner, MHT makes two winch types:

Just a handful of Japan’s shipyards — ment below the waterline. a choker winch and a three-drum purse many of which build non-? sheries behe- winch.

NEW MODELS moths — focus on medium-sized ? shing There are more of the Japanese-style boats. Miho Shipyard Co.; Mitsubishi After 50 years in ? shing boats and ship seiners in the Sea of Japan and the

Heavy Industries, or MHI; Marine hydraulic systems, MHT has upped its Northeast Paci? c than the American,

Hydrtotec Co., or MHT; Mitsui Engi- range in recent years and is understood perhaps because the Japanese style of neering & Shipbuilding Co., or MES to be working on an overseas branch for seining is a team operation of several and Niigata Shipbuilding & Repair both vessel design and sales of its ship vessels holding a line that’s a good ? t look to have been the busiest in recent hydraulics. There’s already a mainte- for the ? shing cooperatives. All MHT months. They have built about a dozen nance operation at Busan, Korea; parts Japanese-style seiners appear to come vessels a year up to 500 GT since the distribution at Dalian, China and a sales with double purse winches and a pow- 1990’s. presence in Taiwan. This designer-build- erful crane, all made by MHT and all

Mitsubishi is fresh from delivering er’s most modern machining and weld- ISO9001-certi? ed. Four other trawler the 64-meter-long 1,000 GT ? sheries ing is at its workshops in Shimonoseki, types bear the distinctly pointed prows training vessel, Shinyo Maru, for Tokyo and MHT clients include the Japanese and sloping sides that emerged in Japan

University. A stern trawler in form, the navy. MHT designs include range in in the 1930’s.

Photo: JSEA

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