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JAPAN SHIPBUILDING - TSUNEISHI, HIROSHIMA

39 images Created 17 Nov 2010

TSUNEISHI is a location by the sea which is part of Fukuyama city in Hiroshima prefecture. The shipbuilding company there that bears the same name is the biggest of the medium size shipbuilding companies in Japan. This photo-essay follows the works at the shipyard and the last stages of the building and the naming ceremony of a ship that was ordered by the Greek shipping company N.J. Goulandris Maritime Inc., one of the many foreign shipping companies that have been building their ships in Japanese shipyards since after WWII, when shipbuilding became one of the major Japanese industries.

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  • Every morning the workers practise 10 minutes exercises before they start working at Tsuneishi shipbuilding company.
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  • Every morning the workers practise 10 minutes exercises before they start working at Tsuneishi shipbuilding company.
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  • Workers go to the ship ATTALIA that was ordered by the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc, to prepare it for its launching and naming ceremony.
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  • Worker removing the supporting wooden blocks from under the ship ATTALIA that was ordered by the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc, to prepare it for its launching and naming ceremony.
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  • Workers in front of the ship ATTALIA that was ordered by the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc, before its launching and naming ceremony.
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  • Workers making preperations for the launching and naming ceremony of  the ship ATTALIA that was ordered by the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc.
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  • Children playing Japanese drums at the beginning of the launching and naming ceremony of  the ship ATTALIA that was ordered by the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc.
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  • Casey Gripari cutting the rope that will release a bottle of shampaign on the ship and will give the signal for it's launching, during the launching and naming ceremony of the ship ATTALIA that was ordered by the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc.
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  • Ship ATTALIA of the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc., sliding towards the sea during its launching and naming ceremony.
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  • Ship ATTALIA of the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc., sliding towards the sea during its launching and naming ceremony.
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  • Paul Gripari throwing "motsi" (Japanese rice-cake that is a local custom to throw in launcing ceremonies) to people who attented the launching and naming ceremony of the ship ATTALIA,
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  • Shipbuilding works continue on the ship ATTALIA of the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc.  for about a month after it's launcing ceremony, untill the delivery date.
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  • Shipbuilding works continue on the ship ATTALIA of the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc.  for about a month after it's launcing ceremony, untill the delivery date.
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  • Engine room. Shipbuilding works continue on the ship ATTALIA of the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc.  for about a month after it's launcing ceremony, untill the delivery date.
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  • Georgios Palmos, captain with Andriaki Shipping of the Greek shipping company N.J.Goulandris Maritime Inc., supervising the shipbuilding works that continue on the ship ATTALIA  for about a month after it's launcing ceremony and untill the delivery date.
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  • Workers leaving from the ship ATTALIA after a day's work.
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  • Ship ATTALIA as seen through ship parts at the Tsuneishi shipyard.
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  • Design office of Tsuneishi shipbuilding
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  • Design office of Tsuneishi shipbuilding
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  • Dock where large iron plates that will be used for making ships are delivered..(a ship's name has been digitaly removed  after a request by the shipyard, for confideciality reasons)
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  • Cutting of the iron plates.
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  • Workers operating an iron plates bending machine
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  • Welding works, connecting the parts that will make a ship
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  • Welding works, connecting the parts that will make a ship
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  • Welding works, connecting the parts that will make a ship
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  • Welding works, connecting the parts that will make a ship
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  • studying the plans for the welding works
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  • Worker gliding the plate's surface before applying painting on pieces that will be placed on a ship that is under construction.
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  • Worker bending an iron plate at Tsuneishi Iron Works, a part of Tsuneishi Holdings that prepares ship pieces that will be used at Tsuneishi shipbuilding. Complicated shapes of the iron plates can not be created by machines so workers have to work on each piece for up to 15 hours to give it the right shape. Because of the very high summer temperatures at the factory he has removed the safety helmet that all workers are required to wear at all times.
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  • Painting of the pieces before they are places on a ship that is under construction.
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  • A ship under construction
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  • A large part that was prepared in the shipyard, while being placed on a ship that is under construction.
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  • Workers on a large part that was prepared in the shipyard, working on it after placed on a ship that is under construction.
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  • Workers during their breack on a ship that is under construction.
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  • Worker cutting a metallic part that was used for lading the large block on the vessel by crane, on a ship that is under construction.
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  • Workers performing welding works on a ship that is under construction.
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  • Worker on a ship that is under construction.
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  • Vew of the shipyard from the top of a pi shaped crane. .(a ship's logo has been digitaly removed  after a request by the shipyard, for confideciality reasons)
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  • Vew of the shipyard from the top of a pi shaped crane.
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