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There has always been a very strong connection between the process of economic growth and changes in energy usage. Household energy usage has also changed greatly. Even in the immediate postwar period, the lifestyle of the average person involved using firewood for cooking, frying or cooking fish over a charcoal brazier, while coal briquettes were burnt for heating, and people went to the local bathhouse to take a bath. Even if you had a bath, firewood and coal were still used to heat the water. Those forms of energy underwent rapid change with the increasing use of oil. Then with the subsequent emergence of LPG , a marked division in the way energy was used in households developed. Now, kerosene is used for heating, electric rice-cookers are used for cooking rice, boiling and frying is done with LPG , and the bath uses LPG. These usage patterns have become entrenched.
Compared to the traditional way of using firewood or coal, LPG made it easier to light or extinguish flames or heat. Provided you protected against the risk of gas leaks, LPG proved to be an easy and clean form of energy that rapidly came to be used widely in households.
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Then in 1962, when the Japanese shipping industry did not yet have such a thing as an LPG carrier, a cargo owner requested that we ship LPG. The founder of Nippon Gas Line, Shigehisa Ishizaki, who was at that time working as a shipbuilder, saw the potential for the widespread use of LPG, and believed that LPG would grow in the future and that ships would be needed to transport it in large volumes. He recognized that the most important factor in shipping LPG had to be safety. Using his shipbuilding skills, he looked for ways to make the transportation of LPG as safe as possible, and this culminated in the completion of the first LPG carrier, the Izumi Maru. Subsequently, as demand expanded rapidly, the stable supply of LPG became a major issue, and Nippon Gas Line grew in step with the growing demand for LPG. |
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Japan (Asia) tanker NIPPON GAS LINE: Clean energy LPG2
