Sanoyas Hishino Meisho
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| Industry | Shipbuilding, Engineering, Construction Machines Group, Leisure |
| Founded | April 1911 |
| Headquarters | Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan |
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Key people
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Tatsuo Nagumo, Chairman, and Shinichi Kimura, President. |
| Website | http://www.sanoyas.co.jp/ |
Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation is a Japanese company that consists of four principal business groups and twelve affiliated companies. The business groups are: the Ship and Steel Structure Group, the Parking System & Engineering Group, the Construction Machines Group, and the Leisure Business Group.
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. 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.
The company was founded in April 1911 as the Sanoyas Shipyard. In June 1940, it was incorporated as Sanoyas Dockyard Co. with ¥1.5 million of capital. In 1967, it was listed on the . 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.
The company's shipbuilding efforts are headquartered at its Mizushima Works and Shipyard. 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 83,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT) able to pass through the Panama Canal. Other bulker designs by the company include Handymax-size general bulkers and 52,000 DWT woodchip carriers.
The company also makes a 115,527 DWT Aframax-size tanker.
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