Tsuneishi appoints new president

摘要

Japanese shipyard Tsuneishi has appointed Kenji Kawano president of the company with effect from January this year. Kawano, who was recently in London meeting clients, has worked with the company for 30 years. He says that he has taken over the leadership of the company at challenging times, with shipbuilding in recession and the global economic climate unfavourable for shipbuilders in general Tsuneishi, which has subsidiaries in China that opened in 2003 and Cebu in The Philippines, which opened in 1994, is drawing up a plan that Kawano says will help the yard to maintain its operations until a calmer global economic outlook is achieved. Development of the Cebu yard 21 years ago was to help Tsuneishi compete with Korean shipbuilders as the value of the Yen increased. A similar situation exists now, but Kawano believes that the Filipino yard is well placed to produce vessels for the local market and for other South East Asian markets.