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Passsend zu Kawasaki Heavy Industries habe ich in der englischen Wirtschaftszeitung "The Economist"
in der Ausgabe vom 23.03.2025 einen Artikel über japanische und südkoreanische Rüstungsfirmen gefunden.
Hier die wichtigsten Aussagen des Artikels, in dem auch Kawasaki erwähnt wird:
Japanese and South Korean armsmakers are now among the fastest-growing in the world. The combined annual revenues of the two countries’ defence-focused firms have risen by 25% since 2022, to $63bn, outpacing even Europe’s resurgent armsmakers. Although America’s defence giants, with total revenues exceeding $200bn, remain dominant, their growth has been a more modest 15% since 2022.
One reason why Japanese and South Korean defence firms are doing so well is that their governments, which have long been net importers of arms, want more domestically made weapons with which to protect their territories, rather than relying on American military backing. That has been a “turning-point”, says Kanehana Yoshinori, the chairman of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Japan’s second-largest aerospace-and-defence company.
In 2022, amid rising regional tension, Japan expanded its defence budget and began its biggest military build-up since the second world war. In 2023 defence-related domestic orders at Japan’s biggest arms manufacturers were two to four times their level in the preceding year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a think-tank.
Orders have kept coming: at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan’s biggest defence firm, they were up by a fifth, year on year, in the last quarter of 2024. Mr Kanehana says Kawasaki used to get orders for up to two military helicopters annually; this year it is “six to seven”. This month the firm delivered an advanced submarine worth $470m to Japan’s ministry of defence.
(Quelle: The Economist, 23.03.-28.03.2025, Business Section, Artikel "Boom time")
Gruß, Pramax
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