Phase I 1948-1951 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |