Phase I 1948-1951

Build 100 ships for Japan’s fishermen!

Build for country’s coastal shipping!

Build 50 ships suitable to import iron-ore in Japan!

Build for the ocean-going Japanese fleet!

A clear nationalistic approach

Phase II-1952-1979

Phase III-1980-?

· Build ships for exports

· Ask a low price

· Use low quality (*) materials etc., except for steel; import foreign exchange

Learn improvements by allowing ship-owners to submit their specifications; negotiate;

Respect your customer!

Listen to ship-owners’ problems (for a dear oil or for a high stevedoring cost, etc.); provide: solutions;

finance;

subsidies; build fuel-economy main engines; produce hydrodynamic ship designs!

Achieve a fast delivery; follow faithfully the shipbuilding contract; have 3 daily shifts, use: pre-fabrication, mechanization,

standardization, proper transportation

Innovate à place ship’s bridge back; propose new designs (Freedom); build ULCCs, VLCCs with double hull, Aframax, LPG; LNG; Suezmax, Panamax, Fortune; Chemical tankers; ECO designs; unmanned engine room during night!

Phase IV-1990?

All phases

Select your customers among those having a long-term relationship; celebrate in every delivery as a vessel has to be a unique achievement; show her to children to be proud of their parents & copy them!

Introduce automation, robots, cutting machines, marking machines, face weather conditions

Establish standard designs; have proper cranes, land, coasts & sea depth for a tantamount “production &

launching” of many vessels at the same time; achieve a perfect melting

Prevent labor accidents; supervise labor, train it, care for it; provide shelter, care for their families, etc. offer fringe benefits; feel that a ship is an art work of many sculptors!

Adopt series & mass production; prepare 7 “blocks” for one handy sized ship etc.; build a ship for which to be proud of