THE Japanese people must make a
concerted effort and raise their voices to a significant level to again have an
impact on world shipping, said a prominent Tokyo banker at a Sea Japan Webinar during
Digital Maritime Week.
"Japan must go with a new
motto - All Japan - people should not be too selfish about themselves. Make
sure everybody goes in one right direction, consolidation is something we
cannot avoid," said Tokyo
Century Corporation's shipping general manager Jigo Hayashi.
"We all have to work
together, I am strong advocate of All Japan, the shipping community must all
form as one community," he said.
"Japan's presence in
shipping has been diminishing and the reason is this country is not taking one
single approach," Mr Hayashi said.
"The Japanese government
will need to take a holistic approach and it's the shipowners who are taking a
step-by-step fragmented approach and is not coming as one big voice," he
said, reported Colchester's Seatrade Maritime News.
"This is one key challenge
to the Japanese shipping community - they must work together to make each
fragmented voice into one concerted voice in order to have an influential
impact on [those] who are asking for rescheduling."
Webinar
moderator and Japan Maritime Daily president Hirofumi Yamamoto said the country's shipyards would soon have no LNG
carrier orders on their books while yards in Korea and China have 100 LNG
orders to date.
Said Mr Hayashi: "The
Japanese must awaken themselves to the reality that the Koreans have Korean
government backing, the Chinese have One
Belt, One Road. The Japanese must
start to wake up - you need to have a caffeine dose, a double expresso."
Source : HKSG.
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