Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation is a Japanese company that consists of four principal business groups and twelve affiliated companies.Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, ''Groups''. The business groups are: the Ship and Steel Structure Group, the Parking System & Engineering Group, the Construction Machines Group, and the Leisure Business Group.Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, ''Structure''. The company's Ship and Steel Structure Group, builds and repairs ships, salvages sunken ships, leases and rents ships and shipboard machinery as well as providing actual marine transportation services.Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, ''Company Profile''. In support of these and other activities, the company also participates in the iron and steel processing sector. The company's other three groups the Parking System & Engineering Group, the Construction Machines Group, and the Leisure Business Group have widely varied activities. Activities in these fields include manufacture, installation, sales, leasing and renting, repair and maintenance. Additional services in the civil engineering sector include design, supervision and contracting. The planning, design and installation of electrical signs and illumination systems is one of the company's specialties. The company also has some pure management revenue streams: amusement park management, real estate management, rental, sale and mediation, and additional related activities.

History

The company was founded in April 1911 as the Sanoyas Shipyard.Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, ''Company Chronicle''. In June 1940, it was incorporated as Sanoyas Dockyard Co. with ¥1.5 million of capital. In 1967, it was listed on the

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. In 1984, the company changed its name to Sanoyas Corporation. After a 1991 merger with Meisho Co., Ltd. the name was changed once again to Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. As of March 2007, the company had a capital base of ¥2.538 billion.

Shipbuilding and repair

The company's shipbuilding efforts are headquartered at its Mizushima Works and Shipyard.Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, ''Newbuilding''. Here, the company builds

bulk carrier A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo — such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement — in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrier was built in 1852, eco ...

s and tankers. The company specializes in the Panamax-size bulkers, having built about 60 ships of this size. The company has been able to build bulkers with capacity of up to able to pass through the

Panama Canal The Panama Canal ( es, Canal de Panamá, link=no) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a condui ...

. Other bulker designs by the company include Handymax-size general bulkers and woodchip carriers. The company also makes a

Aframax An Aframax vessel is an oil tanker with a deadweight between 80,000 and 120,000 metric tonnes. The term is based on the Average Freight Rate Assessment (AFRA), a tanker rate system created in 1954 by Shell Oil to standardize shipping contract t ...

-size tanker. As a spinoff of its shipbuilding business, Sanoyas Hishino Meisho entered the ship repair and refitting business.Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, ''Refitting and Repair''. This company works on cargo ships, high-speed ships,

ferries A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water tax ...

tankers Tanker may refer to: Transportation * Tanker, a tank crewman (US) * Tanker (ship), a ship designed to carry bulk liquids ** Chemical tanker, a type of tanker designed to transport chemicals in bulk ** Oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tank ...

car carrier Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or usin ...

floating cranes Floating may refer to: * a type of dental work performed on horse teeth * use of an isolation tank * the guitar-playing technique where chords are sustained rather than scratched * ''Floating'' (play), by Hugh Hughes * Floating (psychological phe ...

dredger Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment. Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use; constructing da ...

s, and all types of work barges. The company's Mizushima Works and Shipyard is the company's flagship facility and is located in Kurashiki City in the Okayama Prefecture.Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, ''Mizushima Works and Shipyard''. The facility employs advanced shipbuilding techniques using computerized and robotic systems for ship building, repair, conversion, and renovation work. The facility has a shipyard, four

wharf A wharf, quay (, also ), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. Such a structure includes one or more berths (mooring locatio ...

s, a dry dock capable of holding up to three ships at once, and 46 cranes with capacity up to 800 metric tons. The company's Osaka Works provides many services for the Ship and Steel Structure group and other groups in the company.Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, ''Osaka Works''. The facility has a shipyard, a

, and several factories. Some of the resources there include two dry docks and thirteen cranes with capacity up to 80 metric tons. The Osaka Ship Repairing Factory has a shop devoted to maintaining the hull and machinery for high-speed ships.

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Shipbuilding and repair

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