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MOL Group to Install Simulator with Dynamic Positioning System at MOL Head Office
Simulator will provide sophisticated Dynamic Positioning Training for special purpose DP ships for various Offshore Development Projects such as Cable-laying Ships and Offshore Wind Power Projects. TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi...
MOL Signs Charter Contract for A Newbuilding Ice-Breaking Tanker to Serve Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 Project ~ Participating in Japan’s 1st Condensate Transport Project Using Ice-breaking Tanker ~
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that on January 26, it agreed to participate in cargo transport for the Arctic LNG 2 Project on Russia’s Gydan Peninsula, and signed, through an MOL subsidiary, a charter...
MOL Group Bunkering Vessel Successfully Operated Using Biodiesel Fuel
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that the bunkering vessel Techno Star, owned and operated by its group company MOL Techno-Trade, Ltd. (MOL Tech; President: Hirokazu Hatta) has been successfully operated...
MOL and PETRONAS Sign MoU on Liquefied CO2 Transportation for CCUS
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto ; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) today announced that it concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), the state-owned energy company of Malaysia,...
Wood Chip Carrier “STELLAR SYMPHONY” Delivered -Will Serve Marusumi Paper Company Limited
TOKYO- Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that on February 8, the wood chip carrier STELLAR SYMPHONY with a cargo capacity of 3.6 million-cubic feet, was delivered at Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (Imabari...
Completion of Concept Study of Floating Storage and Regasification Unit for Ammonia
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced the completion of a concept study on floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for ammonia fuel, in collaboration with Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (President:...
NAPA and MOL have rolled out digital Navigational Risk Monitoring Solution on over MOL’s 700+ ships
Following joint development and testing with ClassNK, NAPA and MOL have rolled out cloud-based solution on over 700 of MOL’s ships to intelligently monitor and mitigate navigational risks Helsinki, Finland and Tokyo, Japan January 26, 2022: NAPA, the leading maritime...
World’s First Successful Sea Trial of Autonomous Sailing on a Commercial Container Ship Voyage
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that together with its two group companies and the following consortium partners have successfully concluded the world’s first sea trial of unmanned ship operation from port...
MOL and CNOOC Sign Long-term Charter Deal for Six Newbuilding LNG Carriers
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that on January 7, through a subsidiary, it signed a long-term charter contract for six newbuilding LNG carriers with CNOOC Gas & Power Singapore Trading & Marketing...
MOL Acquires AIP for Ammonia Bunkering Vessel ~ Toward Realizing Ammonia Bunkering Business in Singapore ~
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that the company, along with ITOCHU Corporation (ITOCHU, President & COO: Keita Ishii; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) acquired Approval in Principle (AIP) from the...
“Wind Hunter Project”Zero Emission Ship Sailing by Wind and Hydrogen succeeded in the demonstrationexperimentby the Yacht “WINZ MARU”
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo), together with Ouchi Ocean Consultant, Inc., the National Maritime Research Institute (NMRI) of National Institute of Maritime, Port, and Aviation Technology...
‘Kurotakisan Maru III’ Delivered ~ 1st Ship of Next-generation Coal Carrier ‘EeneX’ Series ~
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President: Takeshi Hashimoto; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) today announced that on December 2, the next-generation coal carrier, Kurotakisan Maru III, which will serve Electric Power Development Co., Ltd (J-POWER; President;...
MOL Establishes Authorized Public Trust ‘MOL Mauritius International Fund for Natural Environment Recovery and Sustainability’ in Japan ~ Aims to Promote Recovery and Sustainability of Environment and Local Communities ~
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) today announced that in November, it established the authorized public trust “MOL Mauritius International Fund for Natural Environment Recovery and...
MOL President & CEO Hashimoto Addresses Company’s Entrance Ceremony
Responding to Changing Social Need MOL President & CEO Takeshi Hashimoto today announced that the company welcomed 33 new employees (new graduates working at sea: 9; career recruits working on land: 24) on October 1. President & CEO Hashimoto delivered the...
MOL accelerates Digital Transformation by introducing Support System for Car Carrier Allocation Planning
TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) today announced that MOL and its group company MOL Information Systems, Ltd. (President: Tsuyoshi Yoshida; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) have started...
MOL President & CEO Hashimoto Addresses Company’s Entrance Ceremony
Moving Toward a New Era Together TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that the company welcomed 57 new employees (new graduates at sea: 20; new graduates on land: 29; career recruits on land: 7; career recruit...
Message from President and CEO on MOL Foundation Day, “Heading for a Quantum Leap Forward in the Next Decade”
We are pleased to bring you a message from Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. the new President & CEO Takeshi Hashimoto. Today, as I take the helm from former President & CEO Junichiro Ikeda, I begin steering the management of the MOL Group, and I’m looking forward to...
MOL Establish Chief Country Representatives for U.S.A. and Russia
Aiming to Enhance Ties within MOL Group TOKYO—Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Junichiro Ikeda) today announced to establish the “Chief Country Representative of United States of America” under the “Chief Executive Representative of North America,...
CYBERSECURITY WILL REMAIN A MARITIME THREAT IN 2021
The maritime industry will remain a target of cyber-criminals in 2021 and the world’s shipping fleets will need to be on high alert for cyber-attacks as the industry recovers from the damage caused by the global pandemic, according to Mr Ionut Paris, Managing...
Rolls-Royce acquires leading supplier of ship control systems Servowatch
• Power Systems division modernises and strengthens MTU portfolio of platform management systems and ship control systems. • 46 employees in the United Kingdom and India deliver integrated marine automation solutions for navies, commercial vessels and large yachts....