November 22, 2008

MHI Delivers 300th ship to Mitsui OSK Lines

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd has delivered the MOL COMPETENCE a large size container ship to Mitsui OSK Lines, Ltd at the Koyagi Plant of MHI's Nagasaki Shipyard and Machinery Works. The container ship marks the 300th vessel delivered from MHI to MOL.

The 8,100 TEU, MOL COMPETENCE is the largest container ship built by MHI. It is one of a series of ships targeting reduced weight and improved transportation efficiency through features including the world's first adoption of higher tensile strength steel with yield stress of 47 kgf/mm2 for longitudinal strength members, the most important parts of a container ship's hull. The HTSS was jointly developed by MHI and Nippon Steel Corporation.

MHI believes that the customer's high appraisal of the company's technological expertise in shipbuilding and the reliability of the ships it has delivered resulted in the delivery of 300 vessels to MOL, which includes many historic ships with their innovativeness.

The 300 ships delivered to MOL are vessels of various types, ranging from oil tankers to passenger ships and cargo ships. As a front runner in respective industries maritime and shipbuilding, MOL and MHI have built many ships that are famed in maritime and shipbuilding history, titled as Japan's first, the largest and the fastest.