Shipping & Marine Services News in Japan
| 9/13/2022 - Shift Clean Energy (Shift) announces that it has received Type Approval from both the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) and Japanese Marine Standards (NK) for its energy storage system. Shift energy s... |
| 9/8/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. cooperated an LNG bunkering trial in Tomakomai Port, jointly conducted by Tomakomai Port Authority and Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. . The trial involved the LNG-fuel... |
| 9/5/2022 - Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and DNV have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish energy-saving wind assistance propulsion technology. Wind-assisted propu... |
| 9/2/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) announced that its AR navigation system (Note 1), jointly developed with FURUNO Electric CO., LTD. (President: Yukio Furuno; Headqua... |
| 8/26/2022 - Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” LINE) is pleased to announce that we have conducted a trial use of marine biofuel which was supplied by pioneering marine biofuel supply company GoodFuels on Supramax ... |
| 8/8/2022 - NYK Group company MTI Co., Ltd., Japan Marine United Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group company Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Furuno Electric Co., Ltd., Japan Radio Co., Ltd., B... |
| 8/2/2022 - NYK and Astomos Energy Corporation have participated in a marine biofuel demonstration project launched by the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD), a non-profit organization aiming to pr... |
| 7/12/2022 - On July 11, NYK Line and IHI Power Systems Co., Ltd. (IPS) obtained AiP (Approval in Principle) from Japanese classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) for an ammonia-fueled tugboat current... |
| 7/8/2022 - ClassNK has released the "Guidelines for Ships Using Alternative Fuels (Edtion 2.0)," which sets forth safety requirements for ships fueled by methanol, ethanol, LPG, and ammonia. In particular, speci... |
| 7/4/2022 - ClassNK has released the latest version 2.0.0 of “PrimeShip-PSC Intelligence”, a mobile app to assist the improvement of Port State Control (PSC) performance and ship management systems, provided free... |
| 6/30/2022 - In Cascais, Portugal, at the UN’s Sustainable Blue Economy Investment Forum held on June 28, 2022, NYK joined 150 major companies* having a combined market capitalization of 1 trillion euros in taking... |
| 6/24/2022 - A documentary following the DFFAS consortium’s efforts over one and a half years to realize a fully autonomous ship has just been released on YouTube. From February 26 to March 1, the DFFA... |
| 6/20/2022 - Leading Classification Society ClassNK has granted its Innovation Endorsement for Products & Solutions to the Octamar Combustion Catalyst Series of Innospec Limited, a subsidiary of Innospec Inc. and ... |
| 6/9/2022 - BHP and NYK have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand and deepen their existing business relationship and to support the decarbonisation of ocean transportation across their shared sup... |
| 6/9/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced that three vessels, managed by its group companies MOL LNG Transport Co., Ltd. (MOLLNG) and MOL Ship Management Co., Ltd. (MOLSHIP), received the Ministry Awa... |
| 6/7/2022 - The MOU, signed at Posidonia 2022, will see collaboration that brings major improvements in Autonomous Ready Ship Design. LR and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have signed a Memorandum of U... |
| 4/13/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced that its proposed survey aimed at establishing a system to collect plastic debris and other marine debris using debris collection ships was selected for the J... |
| 4/11/2022 - Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” LINE) has been selected as a constituent of FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index. Created by FTSE Russell, a global index provider, the FTSE Blossom Ja... |
| 3/31/2022 - Leading Classification Society ClassNK has systematically organized certification schemes to support the development and implementation of new technologies and released them as "Guidelines for Approva... |
| 3/23/2022 - Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K”Line), has applied for the Specified Vessel Introduction Plan with Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU), as a shipping company working on the Introduction of Vessels w... |
