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.