Professional Japan's Steel Industry Expects Great Demand From Ocean Development
Japan's steel industry expects a substantial
domestic steel market from development of
ocean resources and ocean space utilization,
according to the Japan Steel Information Cen-
ter in New York City.
In the next 10 years, Japan's development
of ocean resources and related activities are
expected to require a total of some 47-million
net tons of steel. Total requirement for 1970
is forecast to be about 550,000 tons. Rapid in-
creases are expected in the years ahead with
an average annual increase of about 45 per-
cent. Annual requirement of over 15-million
tons in 1979 is anticipated.
The Center cited a recent report of the
Kozai Club, a Japanese steel industry trade as-
sociation, summarizing the industry's partici-
pation in the country's massive efforts in ocean
technologies. The Kozai Club, made up of
virtually all leading steel makers and steel
trading firms in Japan, formed a Committee
for the Promotion of Ocean Development in
July 1969 with Takeo Hori, now auditor of
Nippon Steel Corporation, as chairman.
In its first progress report, the Hori com;
mittee noted that the Japan Iron and Steei
Federation and the Society of Steel Construc-
tion are leading elements of the joint effort
by the Japanese Government and private in-
dustry to develop ocean resources.
Japan's individual steel companies have par-
ticipated in their industrial group programs,
and have also invested in their own subsidi-
aries for ocean development. New ventures
on and under the oceans will require special
steel products to withstand the ocean environ-
ment, the Kozai Club pointed out. Technology
departments of the Japanese steel companies
are conducting extensive programs in that di-
rection. Some Japanese steel mills have also
concluded business of technical agreements
with United States and European corporations
to bring the most advanced ocean technology
to Japan. The report also noted that the move
into the oceanology field may further alter the
traditional role of Japan's steel mills as mere
suppliers of materials. The trend, it said, is
for Japan's steelmakers to extend their work
into new fabricating ventures of oceanology.
Governmental programs have been under
way since 1961, headed by the Council for
Oceanic Science and Technology. Several min-
istries and government agencies have develop-
ed special oceanology departments in the last
decade, and government budgets for these ac-
tivities reached $136 million in 1970. These ex-
penditures are expected to more than double
next year.
In the last two years, the Kozai Club re-
ports, six of the great private industrial groups
have formed special companies to perform dif-
ferent aspects of ocean development.
The Mitsubishi Group has organized the Ja-
pan Ocean Drilling Company, which now is
developing oil wells in Indonesia.
The Mitsui Group has Mitsui Ocean De-
velopment Company, specializing in ocean en-
gineering and marine services, with future
targets in the development of ocean energy
and utilization of offshore space.
The Sumitomo Group established Offshore
Equipment, Ltd., to provide machinery and
equipment for marine work, and Ocean Sys-
tems Japan, Ltd., for deep-sea diving services.
The Fuji Group formed the Fuyo Marine
Development Company to conduct research
and development of oceanic resources. The
Sanwa Group has the Sanwa Society for Re-
search into Ocean Exploration, and the Daiichi
Group has Daiichi Ocean Exploration Society,
both organizations engaged in gathering ma-
rine development information.
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