Investigation And Analysis Of The Current Development Situation Of Japanese Shipbuilding Industry

Affected by the continued downturn in the world's shipping industry,the demand for shipbuilding around the world is very low.In 2016,the world new ship orders decreased rapidly,reaching the lowest point of the latest 10 years.Hand-held orders of each country continue to decline.Under the circumstances like these,Japan has spared no effort to promote the development of maritime and shipbuilding technology.With all kinds of the intense market competitions,the Japanese shipbuilding industry is trying to find a way to drive the innovation of modern shipbuilding industry with technology.At the end of the 19 th century,Japan made a series of modern maritime policy systems,with which Japanese modern shipbuilding industry began to develop.After the Second World War,Japanese shipbuilding industry imported a great amount of advanced American shipbuilding technology,and rapidly took in and applied it.It took only seven years for Japan to become the world's largest shipbuilding country.Under the circumstances of the world shipping industry's recession,followed with the rapid development of the China and South Korea,Japanese shipbuilding orders are no longer as large as before.In order to get rid of this situation,Japanese major shipyards began to restructure the company and upgrade the technology.At the same time,the government also introduced various incentive systems to stimulate the development of advanced shipbuilding technology,in order to improve the comprehensive competitiveness.Japanese MLIT(Ministry of Land,Infrastructure,Transport and Tourism)are planning to promote the "Marine Productivity Revolution",which is based on i-Shipping and J-Ocean.i-Shipping is for improving the productivity of all stages,including design,construction to trial run and so on.J-Ocean is for improving the development capacity of the ocean resources.They interact and promote each other.Promoted by relevant policies,a large number of advanced concepts and technologies have emerged,some of which have been successfully implemented into the application stage,such as IoT(Internet of Things technology),automatic welding robot,AR management system of pipe and offshore wind turbines.The future of Japanese shipbuilding industry should not be underestimated.The history of Chinese shipbuilding industry is not long,but it has many similarities with Japanese shipbuilding industry.The history,current situation and future development trend of Japanese shipbuilding industry are worthy of reference for Chinese shipbuilding industry.Restructuring and upgrading of Chinese shipbuilding industry will be the top priority.