Outline The Osaka Branch was established in September 1920 as the Osaka Branch
of the Shipping Administration Bureau, Ship Equipment Inspection Station,
under the prewar Communications Ministry. It was established in April 1963
as the Ship Research Institute under the Ministry of Transport, and moved
to the present location in April 1971. Then it made a new start in April
2001 as the Osaka Branch of the National Maritime Research Institute,the
Independent Administrative Institution,and becoming present.
There are a lot of dockyards,marine application factories in the western
Japan and they become the accumulation place of the shipbulding industry
in our country.
The Osaka Branch makes efforts to implement the reseach to technically
support many ship-related industrial plants in the western Japan region
and to be able to contribute to the society.For example,the Branch conducts
research about the testing, development and improvement of the ship equipment,research
for the anti-corrosion on piping, research for corrosion test of ballast
water management system using activity substance, and others.
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