History: Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works
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Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works
1891
Yokohama Dock Co., Ltd. Established.
1896
Started ships repairing business.
1897
Completion of No. 2 Dry dock.
1899
Completion of No. 1 Dry dock.
1917
Started shipbuilding business
1923
Total number of manufactured marine engines exceeded 100.
1929
Hikawa Maru launched.
1930
The first diesel engine completed.
1935
Company merged with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
1952
The first "Mitsubishi Yokohama-CE" (Note1) Boiler delivered.
1961
The first "Mitsubishi Yokohama" turbine completed.
1966
Opening of Honmoku Plant.
1971
Completion of the largest ship renovation project ever conducted.
1979
Yokohama Machinery Works launches its last ship ever, the TABRIZ.
1983
Yokohama Works was moved to Honmoku Plant and Kanazawa Plant.
Terminated Yokohama Works.
Renamed Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works.
1991
100th Anniversary Party.
1989
Mitsubishi MAN diesel engine completed as the main engine of the luxury cruise ship "Crystal-Harmony".
1986
The first Mitsubishi KU30 diesel engine completed.
2000
The world's largest-class refuse incineration plant delivered.
World's highest-class efficient and low-emission gas engine MACH30G developed.
2001
The world's largest-class LNG (Note2) tank delivered.
2008
Production of world's largest-class 2.4 megawatt wind turbine nacelle started.
- 1Combustion Engineering
- 2Liquefied Natural Gas