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Niigata built the heavily photographed building about 180 MAN B&W low- 88th Koyo Maru late in 2016, and the speed diesel engines a year, all of them 760 GT vessel bears some of the new at the Tamano Works Machinery Fac- marks of Japanese ? shing boats. Apart tory. The company’s record of installed from doing nearly 18 knots, Tokai Fish- horsepower and the Fisheries Agency ery Co.’s 69 m, round-haul netter boasts both con? rm the power quotient of Jap- a power management system and is re- anese vessels is on the rise (stat here). portedly safer and less labor-intensive to A pact since 1926 with MAN Diesel & run than other, similarly sized vessels. Turbo has also served them well.

These attributes garner grants and loans Ocean currents from the north and under the government’s “better man- south meet both east and west of Japan, agement” subsidy. The 2,942 kW units and the fronts create “a ? sh magnet … a aboard the Navis-type Kaiyu Maru 51 huge feeding ground,” wrote Masaki Sato also qualify for loans and grants for be- in a UN report back in 1996. Since then, ing energy ef? cient and meeting Tier II species counts have shrunken from one- emissions strictures. twentieth to one half, and it’s part of the

Engineering out? t MES holds the reason there are fewer boats and the need pulse of Japanese shipbuilding and is for vessels that attract recruits.

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