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 Sanoyas Hishino Meisho affiliated companiesNameEstablishedCapitalmln. yenBusiness linesYamada Industries Ltd.October 17, 1925¥M200Environmental controlsYamada Engineering Service Co., Ltd.March 5, 1981¥M10Engineering servicesK.S SANOYAS Co., Ltd.December 29, 1940¥M180Mechanical partsSANOYAS SANGYO Co., Ltd.April 11, 1979¥M60ServicesSANOTEC CorporationOctober 31, 1984¥M80Computer and softwareSANOYAS SHOJI Co., Ltd.August 30, 1956¥M48Shipping and shipbuildingSANOYAS TATEMONO Co., Ltd.June 29, 1972¥M200ServicesSanoyas Security Patrols Co., Ltd.November 25, 1983¥M20SecuritySanoyas Engineering Co., Ltd.April 1, 1986¥M30EngineeringKatoh Precise Machinery Co., Ltd.November, 1961¥M64Robotics and machineryMizuho Industrial Co., Ltd.May 7, 1960¥M60Processing equipmentMeisho Network Co., Ltd.July 1, 1989¥M80Leisure industryThe 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 Osaka Stock Exchange. 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 carriers 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. Other bulker designs by the company include Handymax-size general bulkers and woodchip carriers.
The company also makes a Aframax-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, tankers, car carriers, floating cranes, dredgers, 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 wharfs, 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 wharf, 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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External links Vessels Built List at Det Norske Veritas MOL orders "Handy Capes" for expanded Panama Canal Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation Expects the Occurrence of Extraordinary Losses & Profit and Issues Mixed Consolidated Outlook for FY Ending March 31, 2008
Sanoyas Hishino Meisho at ShipPhotos.co.uk MOL and Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Team up to Develop and Build New 116-Type Handy Cape Bulk Carriers Sanoyas Choses Sener Marine Safety Investigation Report No. 194