FERRY KYOTO to Serve on Osaka-Shinmoji Kitakyushu Route from December 2021- Interior design concept "atmosphere of an ancient city" evokes feeling of Japan.- Hybrid-type propulsion system with azimuth
Christening and Launch Ceremony of FERRY KYOTO . Photo courtesy Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding held a christening and launch ceremony May 13, 2021 for the first of two large ferries being built for Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT) and Meimon Taiyo Ferry Co., Ltd.
The ceremony took place at the Enoura Plant at MHI’s Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The handover is scheduled for December 2021 following completion of interior work and sea trial. The new vessel will replace the Ferry Kyoto II, in operation since 2002, and enter service from December 2021 on a regular route between Osaka and Shinmoji in Kitakyushu.
Scrubber-Fitted Ferry Launches in Japan
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Thursday May 13, 2021
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding has held a launch ceremony for a new scrubber-fitted ferry set to commence operations in
Japan later this year.
Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency and
Meimon Ferry Company, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding said in a statement on its website on Thursday. The new ship is due to enter service in
December and operate between 675 people, and will be the largest ship ever operated by Meimon ferry. As well as being equipped with a scrubber system, the ship includes an air lubrication system and has fuel consumption about
Learning from Megadisasters: A Decade of Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake
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Authors: Shoko Takemoto, Naho Shibuya, and Keiko Sakoda
Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), a mega-disaster that marked Japan and the world with its unprecedented scale of destruction. This feature story commemorates the disaster by reflecting on what it has taught us over the past decade in regards to infrastructure resilience, risk identification, reduction, and preparedness, and disaster risk finance. Since GEJE, the World Bank in partnership with the Government of Japan, especially through the Japan-World Bank Program on Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries has been working with Japanese and global partners to understand impact, response, and recovery from this megadisaster to identify larger lessons for disaster risk management (DRM).