the successor to the Nisshin Maru, has improved freezing and storage technology as well as sanitation features, such as being able to process whale carcasses indoors. “No other whaling ship in ...

Built at a cost of US$ 47 million, the 9,300-ton Kangei Maru has a slipway to haul up to 70- ton fin whales, and can store up to 600 tons of meat. Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet ...

president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony. He said the construction of the Kangei Maru means that offshore, mothership type ...

and now a new version of the ship debuts, bringing the promise of hope. On the surface, the Kobayashi Maru test may seem harsh. Cadets at the Academy dread it, and it inspired Kirk to do something ...

Japanese whaling mother ship, 9,000 tons Kangei Maru, which the CPWF foundation wants to intercept The Greenland police reported it had arrested environmental activist Paul Watson when his ship ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The Kangei Maru, a new whaling mother ship that will succeed the decommissioned Nisshin Maru, has been built here. A signing ceremony for its delivery was held ...

The Kangei Maru, a commercial whaling ship, leaves Shimonoseki port in western Japan on April 21, 2025. (Kyodo) SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi (Kyodo) -- A commercial whaling ship left a western Japanese ...

saying it had lobbed more than two dozen bottles of rotten butter at the Nisshin Maru, "sending a stench throughout the whale killing ship that will remain for days." Butyric acid is found in ...

The Kangei Maru has succeeded the world's only other whaling mother ship, the Nisshin Maru. Rather than carving up the carcasses on deck, often in bad weather, the workers will now be able to ...