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| 02/21/08 |
Kitakyushu and South Korean Company Ink Agreement for Moji-Busan Ferry Service |
The C&Cruise ferry company of South Korea, anxious to operate regularly scheduled ferry service between the Port of Busan and the Port of Moji, signed an agreement with Kitakyushu to begin such a service. The ferry trips will be inaugurated in June, and there will be six round trips per week. They project first-year passenger totals to reach 146,000.
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| 12/26/07 |
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Aisin to Build Research Facility in Fukuoka |
Aisin Comcruise, the vehicle software development company in the Aisin Seiki group, will build a research center in Fukuoka Prefecture in 2008. The objective is to enhance their development capabilities with the growing use of electronic devices on automobiles. The company already has research facilities in Aichi and Iwate prefectures, but their objective is to create greater dispersion to obtain skilled personnel.
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| 11/21/07 |
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UN Habitat in Fukuoka to Support Environmental Companies |
The Fukuoka City-based Asia-Pacific office of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN–Habitat), working to resolve urbanization problems in the world's developing countries, will offer support to companies and local governments in northern Kyushu working to provide environmental technology to people overseas. They expect to launch a project team within the year that make available information to local companies about overseas entities seeking Japanese technology. They hope their efforts will lead to an increase in overseas orders for northern Kyushu companies in the environmental field.
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| 11/21/07 |
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Institute on Kyushu U. Campus to Conduct Hydrogen Materials Research |
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has established the Research Center for Advanced Hydrogen Materials, which is involved with basic research into hydrogen, on Kyushu University's Ito Campus in Fukuoka City. They will be the first facility in the country to conduct research into the changes metals undergo in a high pressure hydrogen environment when used for fuel cell batteries. The facility will be used primarily by researchers from AIST and Kyushu University.
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| 11/21/07 |
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Softbank IDC Establishes Presence in Kitakyushu |
Softbank IDC of Tokyo announced in November 2007 that it would build the Asian Frontier data center for the operation of company servers on the site of the former Nippon Steel factory in Kitakyushu. Several companies have been locating its data centers and call centers in the city in recent years, further increasing the density of IT industry integration in the city.
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