Shipping & Marine Services News in Japan
| 4/28/2023 - ClassNK has granted its Innovation Endorsement for Products & Solutions to a Ship Support Solution called MaSSA-One developed by BEMAC Corporation. In order to promote the spread and devel... |
| 4/3/2023 - Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. (headquarters: Tokyo, Japan, “SMM”) and Sumitomo Corporation (headquarters: Tokyo, Japan, “SC”), together with Teck Resources Limited (headquarters: Vancouver B.C., Cana... |
| 3/29/2023 - Belize, Japan and Portugal have become the latest countries to show their support for the safety of fishing vessels by becoming contracting parties to the fishing vessel safety treaty, the 2012 Cape T... |
| 3/7/2023 - ClassNK has issued four Approvals in Principle (AiPs) for GTT’s following latest development projects in alternative fuels, which were handed over during a ceremony in Tokyo on 6 March 2023. ... |
| 2/28/2023 - ClassNK has released "Guidelines for Container Stowage and Securing Arrangements (Edition 3.0)" and "Guidelines for Parametric Roll Countermeasures" to achieve and safer and more efficient marine tran... |
| 2/16/2023 - ClassNK granted the Class C Innovation Endorsement Provider Certification to VesselsValue Ltd., which provides daily updated ship values and data based on the latest market insights and intelligence.<... |
| 2/13/2023 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced its decision to integrate two wholly owned ferry and coastal RORO vessel operating companies, MOL Ferry Co., Ltd. (M... |
| 1/30/2023 - Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and GHELIA INC. (Ghelia) have entered into a business and capital alliance agreement that comes with an investment by NYK in Ghelia, according to the company's release. The t... |
| 1/16/2023 - CMA CGM deploys two 15,000-TEU Vessels, the largest containerships to call Japan on a regular service • CMA CGM Argentina is the first of two 15,000-TEU vessels on the Asia Central South ... |
| 1/16/2023 - The design of a Kamsarmax bulk carrier, jointly developed by Sumitomo Corporation and Oshima Shipbuilding, has achieved an Approval in Principle (AiP) from leading classification society DNV. ... |
| 12/15/2022 - Wan Hai Lines Ltd. held ship naming ceremonies for WAN HAI 356 , WAN HAI 358 and WAN HAI 359 accompanied by a charity donation (15TH December) at Japan Marine United Corporation TSU Shipyard. ... |
| 12/6/2022 - On December 5, Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), NYK Bulk & Projects Carriers Ltd. (NBP), and MTI Co., Ltd. (MTI) completed a 35-day experiment using IoT sensors* to measure the holds of dry bulk v... |
| 11/25/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. hereby announces that the Board of Directors today decided on a plan to build two new ocean-going cruise ships. Details of the announcement are as follows. 1. Ove... |
| 11/22/2022 - Fujitsu, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., SAP Japan Co., Ltd., and Skillnote Corporation plan to collaborate on the development of platform services supporting digital transformation (DX) in the manufa... |
| 10/28/2022 - • Primes the relocation of CMA CGM’s current container terminal operations at D4 to D5 by October 2026. • D5 terminal will accommodate shipments arriving on larger vessels of up to 15,000-TEU, pr... |
| 10/28/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and EnviroNor AS have signed a memorandum of understanding to discuss collaboration on a Floating Desalination Vessel and have begun collaboration toward commercializat... |
| 10/27/2022 - Following the increasing growth of NORDEN’s dry cargo activities in Japan, the company announces the opening of an office in Tokyo, effective 1 October 2022. “NORDEN has enjoyed strong rela... |
| 10/24/2022 - On October 21, NYK, the Chubu Maritime Public Relations Association, and the Chubu Transportation Bureau of Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism sponsored a general overview... |
| 10/13/2022 - ? Fourth training ship for the school, and the second built at MHI’s Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works, following the third-generation vessel currently in operation. ? Handover scheduled fo... |
| 10/6/2022 - NYK and NYK Bulk & Projects Carriers Ltd., an NYK Group company, will integrate the Veson IMOS Platform (IMOS) into their core system and begin operating IMOS as a unified platform for their shipping ... |
