CategoryMaritime
Overview
Kawasaki Shipbuilding (formally Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ship & Offshore Structure Company) is the shipbuilding division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, producing LNG carriers, LPG carriers, container ships, bulk carriers, oil tankers, submarines for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and jetfoils. With origins dating to 1878, it operates shipyards in Kobe and Sakaide, Japan, and is collaborating with NVIDIA on a next-generation AI-powered digital shipyard.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Parent
Parent company
KHI CEO
KHI Chairman
Shipyards
Products
Military customers
Nvidia partnership
NACKS JV
Status
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Kawasaki Shipbuilding has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1COSCO Shipping1× joint
- 2NVIDIA1× joint132 total
Most recent
- Kawasaki x NVIDIA Digital Shipyard2026-07-16with NVIDIAoperating
- with COSCO Shippingoperating
Kawasaki Shipbuilding on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Yasuhiko Hashimoto President & CEO (KHI)secondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Shozo Kawasakicofounderno longer at company
later founded Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Former / Previously (1)
- Shozo Kawasaki Foundersecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Kawasaki Shipbuilding.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Kawasaki Shipbuilding in third-party press
Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 model
Mentioned on (1)
Registry pages whose text names Kawasaki Shipbuilding.
Robots and products (1)
Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company Kawasaki Shipbuilding has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Kawasaki x NVIDIA Digital Shipyard2026-07-16with NVIDIAoperating
- with COSCO Shippingoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1COSCO Shipping1× joint
- 2NVIDIA1× joint132 total
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- NACKS Joint Venture (Kawasaki x COSCO Shipping)withCOSCO Shippingjoint venture1995-01-01operating
- development2026-07-16announcedoperating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Kawasaki Shipbuilding’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipKawasaki x NVIDIA Digital Shipyard
2026-07-16Kawasaki Heavy Industries and NVIDIA are collaborating to build a next-generation digital shipyard at Kawasaki's Sakaide Works, using NVIDIA's physical AI stack (Cosmos, Omniverse, Isaac, Metropolis, Jetson) to integrate robotics, AI, autonomous systems, and digital twins into commercial shipbuilding.
PartnershipNACKS Joint Venture (Kawasaki x COSCO Shipping)
1995-01-01NACKS (Nantong COSCO Kawasaki Ship Engineering Co.) is a joint venture between Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation and COSCO Shipping for container ship construction in China, recently launching a 24,000 TEU containership.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Kawasaki Shipbuilding.Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Kawasaki Shipbuilding from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Chips to ships: Nvidia plans new shipbuilding investment with Kawasaki
Chips to ships: Nvidia plans new shipbuilding investment with Kawasaki
Nvidia is making an approximately million investment connected to Kawasaki's shipbuilding business as part of a collaboration to integrate AI and robotics into shipyard…
Kawasaki Launches Collaboration with NVIDIA to Realize a Next-Generation Digital Shipyard
Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to build a next-generation digital shipyard at its Sakaide Works, using physical AI, digital twins, and robotics to…
Kawasaki May Quit Shipbuilding
Kawasaki Heavy Industries indicated it may pull out of its shipbuilding business due to worsening profitability, citing a stronger yen and declining operating profitability.
Kawasaki Receives Large-Scale LNG Carrier Order
Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation received a large-scale LNG carrier order, selected for its superior LNG carrier technology and highly reliable construction capabilities.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/kawasaki-shipbuilding.md
- RSS feed: /companies/kawasaki-shipbuilding/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/3367f3a4-b56e-475f-98d8-3b7d9f6f44e3
- Revision history: /companies/kawasaki-shipbuilding/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Cellula Robotics3 models
- HavocAI2 models
- Huntington Ingalls Industries2 models
- Kraken Technology Group2 models
- Ukrainian Armed Forces2 models
- ABB Marine & Ports1 model
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Kawasaki Shipbuilding draws attention at the 14th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among maritime robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 4, 2026