{"id":8508,"date":"2025-07-02T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/?p=8508"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:19:56","slug":"ambassador-of-japan-to-romania-jetro-bucharest-office-manager-and-others-visit-self-propelled-cable-laying-vessel-under-construction-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/topics\/generalnews-8508","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador of Japan to Romania, JETRO Bucharest office manager and others visit self-propelled cable laying vessel under construction in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The self-propelled cable laying vessel by Toyo Construction Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director,<br \/>\nChairperson and CEO: Shinya Yoshida) currently under construction in the Vard Group AS (Head Office: Norway, COO: Erik Sandnes)<br \/>\nTulcea Shipyard (location: Romania), was visited by Japanese Ambassador to Romania Takashi Katae, Director General of<br \/>\nJETRO Bucharest office Sawaka Takasaki and others on June 4, 2025<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Katae and his delegation showed strong interest in the explanation of the construction situation, and a lively question<br \/>\nand answer session was held. Ambassador Katae commented, &#8220;The execution of the shipbuilding contract in Romania between<br \/>\nToyo Construction and Vard will lead to the further development of the relationship between Japan, Romania and Norway, and<br \/>\nis expected to play an important role in the spread of renewable energy in Japan and other countries in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Construction of Self-propelled Cable Laying Vessel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the vessel began with the steel cutting in July 2024, followed by the Keel Laying Ceremony in September of<br \/>\nthe same year. The Launching Ceremony will be held at the end of June 2025, and construction is progressing steadily toward<br \/>\nthe scheduled delivery of the vessel in June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The vessel will be able to operate at a high utilization rate in a wide range of sea areas, from shallow water to deep water for<br \/>\nfloating offshore wind power generation and DC power transmission projects, by optimizing the hull design to meet<br \/>\nthe environmental conditions and construction conditions of Japan. In addition, the high-performance crane and the large deck area<br \/>\nmake the vessel suitable for both fixed offshore wind foundation construction and floating offshore wind mooring installation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18050\" style=\"max-width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18050\" class=\"wp-image-18050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250626-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"285\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of completed vessel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18050\" style=\"max-width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18050\" class=\"wp-image-18050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250626-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"380\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipyard visit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our company aims to achieve the top market share in offshore wind construction, and will take on the challenge to contribute<br \/>\nto the realization of carbon neutrality by 2050, maximizing the potential of the ocean itself, and connecting it to the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n(Contact)<br \/>\nToyo Construction Co., Ltd.<br \/>\nPR Department<br \/>\nTelephone: +81-3-6361-2691<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self-propelled cable laying vessel by Toyo Construction Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director, Chairperson and CEO: Shinya Yoshida) currently under construction in the Vard Group AS (Head Office: Norway, COO: Erik Sandnes) Tulcea Shipyard (location: Romania), was visited by Japanese Ambassador to Romania Takashi Katae, Director General of JETRO Bucharest office Sawaka Takasaki and others on June 4, 2025 &nbsp; Ambassador Katae and his delegation showed strong interest in the explanation of the construction situation, and a lively question and answer session was held. Ambassador Katae commented, &#8220;The execution of the shipbuilding contract in Romania between Toyo Construction and Vard will lead to the further development of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[402,16,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-g","category-generalnews","category-topics","posttemplate-topics-typed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8508"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8520,"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508\/revisions\/8520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toyo-const.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}