Completion of TESS58-class ship at overseas shipyard is 100th in just four years and ten months of operations

Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (headquarters at 1083, Tsuneishi, Numakuma-cho, Fukuyama, Hiroshima; Takao Kawamoto, president and CEO) announces completion of the Tsuneishi Group's 100th TESS58-class ship, the 58,000-ton bulk carrier Toucan Bulker, on October 13, 2011 at Tsuneishi Heavy Industries (Cebu), Inc. (THI) in the Philippines. Since completion of its first vessel in December, 2006, THI and Tsuneishi Group (Zhoushan) Shipbuilding Inc. of China have built 100 ships in four years and 10 months.