Japan’s Shipbuilding Industry: Three Challenges on the Road to Recovery　ニッポン造船　復活への3つの課題

(Series)①Persistent Orders by Japanese Shipowners for Chinese Shipbuilding, Trading Houses as Intermediaries, and Regional Bank Financing

（連載）①止まらない日本船主の中国造船への発注、商社仲介、地方銀行融資

Expectations for the revival of “Shipbuilding Nippon” are rising by the day. At the same time, what challenges must now be overcome? This series focuses on three themes: “Japanese shipowners placing orders with Chinese shipyards,” “the shortage of workers in shipyards,” and “whether the revival of LNG carrier construction is possible.” The first instalment examines “persistent orders by Japanese shipowners for Chinese shipbuilding, trading houses acting as intermediaries, and financing by regional banks.”

Key points of this article

→ Can Japan’s shipbuilding industry regain the brilliance it achieved in the 1970s? The Japanese government will invest a combined total of ¥1 trillion from the public and private sectors to support the introduction of large cranes, digitalisation programmes, and the construction of next-generation fuel-powered vessels.

→ The Sanae Takaichi administration, in a comprehensive economic package formulated on 21 November, designated ship hulls as “specified critical materials” under the Economic Security Promotion Act and decided to establish a 10-year fund aimed at fundamentally strengthening shipbuilding capacity. Behind this lies the fact that the Trump administration in the United States has expressed expectations that “ally Japan’s” shipbuilding industry will establish “dual shipyards” capable of constructing both commercial vessels and naval ships.

“You can read the rest of the article in both English and Japanese.” (Readers may continue in the full bilingual version of the article.)

（連載）ニッポン造船、再生・復活への3つの課題

①止まらない日本船主の中国造船への発注、商社仲介、地方銀行融資

　「造船ニッポン」の復活にかける期待は日に日に増している。同時に、今後克服すべき課題は何か。「日本船主の中国造船への発注」「造船所のワーカー不足」「LNG船建造の復活は可能か」という3つのテーマに焦点を当てる。第1回目は「止まらない日本船主の中国造船への発注、商社仲介、地方銀行融資」を取り上げる。

この記事のポイント

→日本造船は1970年代の輝きを取り戻せるのか―。日本政府は官民総額1兆円規模の投資を行い、大型クレーン導入、デジタル化支援、次世代燃料船建造などを支援する。

→高市早苗政権は11月21日に策定した総合経済対策で、船体を経済安全保障推進法の特定重要物資に指定し、造船能力の抜本的強化を目的とした10年間の基金創設を決定した。背景には、米トランプ政権が「同盟国の日本」の造船業に対し、民間商船、軍事用の艦艇の「デュアル造船所」確立への期待を示していることがある。

“You can read the rest of the article in both English and Japanese.”（続きは英語と日本語で書かれた本文でお読みください）

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