Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe Shipyard

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works is one of the twelve works and plants operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., the Japanese industrial group founded in 1884 and headquartered in Tokyo. The scraped pages are corporate-level material and give little detail about the Kobe site itself; they indicate only that it is an MHI works whose head also serves as a Deputy Head of MHI's Nuclear Energy Systems business. At group level MHI spans energy systems, plants and infrastructure, commercial ships, marine machinery, naval ships and maritime systems, industrial machinery, and aircraft, defense and space. Buyers seeking specifics on Kobe's docks, berths or repair capability will need to contact MHI directly, as the available content does not describe them.

Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works is one of 12 works and plants within Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), a Japanese industrial group founded on 7 July 1884 and established in its present form in 1950. MHI reported consolidated revenue of ¥4,974.1 billion for FY2025, 78,793 consolidated employees and 246 consolidated group companies, with head offices in Marunouchi and Tamachi, Tokyo. The published material is corporate in scope and does not detail the Kobe site's docks, cranes or repair services.

Group Business Areas

Energy Systems — gas and steam power, nuclear power, compressors, aero engines and marine machinery, including energy-saving and fuel-conversion retrofits for shipping
Plants & Infrastructure Systems — commercial ships, engineering, environmental systems, metals machinery and machinery systems
Logistics, Thermal & Drive Systems — material handling, engines, turbochargers, HVAC and automotive air conditioning
Aircraft, Defense & Space — commercial and defense aircraft, missile systems, naval ships, special vehicles, maritime systems (torpedoes) and space systems

Marine-Related Activities (group level)

Construction of environmentally friendly vessels
LNG fuel supply systems, and handling systems for ammonia fuel and liquefied CO₂
Marine machinery, with retrofitting for fuel conversion toward decarbonization
Naval ships and maritime systems within the defense portfolio

Organisation

Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works is listed among MHI's works alongside Nagasaki, Shimonoseki, Hiroshima, Mihara, Takasago, Yokohama, Sagamihara, Hitachi and Kure
The Head of Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works, Kaname Shibato, is also Deputy Head of MHI's Nuclear Energy Systems business, indicating a nuclear-related role for the site

Location

Kobe, Japan; part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., registered office at 2-3 Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8332, Japan
MHI operates 8 domestic offices, 3 overseas offices (Middle East, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur) and a global network of some 300 domestic and overseas group companies