Offshore Construction News in Japan
| 11/15/2024 - · After handover in June 2025, new vessel will service Toyofuji Shipping's Asian routes · High-performance dual-fuel engines reduce CO2 emissions by 25% and cut SOx emissions to near zero compare... |
| 10/17/2024 - ClassNK has granted the class notation "a-EA (GRS)" to "BRIGHT QUEEN", the bulk carrier operated by NYK Bulk & Projects Carriers Ltd., certifying the use of green steel. This is the world’s first case... |
| 9/25/2024 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) announced that its group company MOL Cruise, Ltd. (President and CEO: Tsunemichi Mukai; Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo) has held hand... |
| 9/17/2024 - ClassNK has granted its Innovation Endorsement for Products & Solutions to monitoring service for ocean vessel motors, “V-MO” developed by Asahi Kasei Engineering Corporation. ClassNK has confirmed th... |
| 9/12/2024 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) announced that 11 MOL Group-managed vessels have received commendations from the Commandant of the Ja... |
| 9/4/2024 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that on September 4, the naming and launching ceremony was held for the LNG-fueled ferry Sunflower Pirka, under cons... |
| 8/27/2024 - "K" LINE (President: Yukikazu Myochin, Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), MOL (President: Takeshi Hashimoto, Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo), and NYK Line (President: Takaya Soga, Headquarters: Chiyoda... |
| 8/19/2024 - On August 1, NYK Bulk & Projects Carriers Ltd., an NYK Group company, concluded a basic agreement with Kambara Kisen Co., Ltd. (Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan) for the time charter of a methanol dual-fue... |
| 7/9/2024 - It is an important signal for Papenburg as a shipbuilding location: the Oriental Land Company (OLC) has commissioned MEYER WERFT to build a Disney Wish-class cruise ship for the Japanese market. Berna... |
| 7/8/2024 - ORIX Corporation (“ORIX”) announced that it has placed an order for two Methanol Dual Fuel KAMSARMAX Bulk Carriers (“KAMSARMAX”), the latest environmentally friendly ships from TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING ... |
| 5/30/2024 - Today, the 210,000-dwt ton capesize bulker fueled by LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) "CAPE
HAYATE" which had been under construction at Tsu shipyard of Japan Marine United Co., Ltd.,
has been delivered ... |
| 4/4/2024 - In a ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan today, the world's second large methanol-enabled container vessel was named "Astrid Mærsk". Mrs. Liza Uchida, spouse of Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida served as godmoth... |
| 3/21/2024 - ClassNK has granted its “SCCS-Full”*1 class notation to “EVER TOP”, a Neopanamax container vessel owned by EVERGREEN. The notation signifies that the vessel is now equipped with an onboard CO2 capture... |
| 2/28/2024 - ClassNK has awarded an approval in principle (AiP) for the design of a multi-functional floating offshore windfarm support vessel (MFSV) developed by “K” Line Wind Service, Ltd., a joint venture of Ka... |
| 1/18/2024 - Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” LINE) and NIHON SHIPYARD CO., LTD. (NSY) have entered
into a contract for the construction of three post-Panamax bulkers which NSY had newly
developed and designed a... |
| 1/12/2024 - · New ship to replace current Koyo Maru, built at MHI's Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works and in service since 1998, with handover scheduled for June 2024 · Vessel has one of the highest pul... |
| 12/22/2023 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) has been awarded an approval in principle (AiP) by Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) for a design of Floating Storage and Regasification... |
| 12/20/2023 - Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” LINE) has decided to employ JGreeX, *1
the green-steel
product manufactured by JFE Steel Corporation (JFE Steel), for the ultramax bulker to be built
by Imabari Shi... |
| 12/19/2023 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL: President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) announced that it has decided to expand its fleet with the additional five Newbuilding Dual-fueled Capesize bulkers, which can burn ... |
| 12/12/2023 - MEYER WERFT and NYK Cruises celebrated the traditional keel-laying ceremony for the new cruise ship ASUKA III. With the lowering of the first steel block into building dock I (hall 5), the assembly of... |
