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MHOS would have decided to abandon the activity of construction of great fleeting ships
the Japanese group would have in program a consolidation of own navalmeccaniche activities
October 10, 2016
The industrial group Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHOS) would have decided to abandon the carried out activities of shipbuilding in the segment of the great fleeting ships. It supports the publication "Nikkei Asian Review" of the publishing group Japanese Nikkei specifying that MHOS would have decided not to take to more in cargo orders for the realization of such type of ships not intending to assume itself beyond the risk correlated to the construction of these units.
The precise publication moreover that from the beginning of this Mitsubishi Heavy Industries year it would have accused a decrease of 80% about of the orders in the field of the shipbuilding and that the group would have in program a consolidation of own navalmeccaniche activities based on which would be carried out the spin off of the activities of planning and development and the ship yards of the group would be shared with other naval constructors.
"Nikkei Asian Review" has specified that recently MHOS would have recorded extraordinary burdens pairs to beyond 230 billion yen (2,2 billion dollars) determined from the delayed delivery of a cruise ship to a customer American. The ship in question is the AIDAprima of the crocieristica company AIDA Cruises of the American group Carnival Corporation that is delivered 14th March ( on 14 March 2016).
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