Shipping & Marine Services News in Japan
| 3/23/2022 - Leading Classification Society ClassNK has granted its Innovation Endorsement for Products & Solutions to Marlink’s CyberGuard Threat Detection, the service for detecting cyber security threats and he... |
| 3/23/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. announced the introduction plan of large-scale dry bulk vessel with a hard sail system was certified as "Introduction plan of vessel w... |
| 3/16/2022 - ClassNK granted the Approval in Principle (AiP) for the world’s first concept design of the methane oxidation catalyst system*1 jointly developed by Hitachi Zosen Corporation (Hitachi Zosen), Mitsui O... |
| 3/15/2022 - Leading Classification Society ClassNK granted the Approval in Principle (AiP) for a fully autonomous ship framework (development code “APExS-auto”*1) jointly developed by Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaish... |
| 3/10/2022 - Leading Classification Society ClassNK has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PowerX, Inc. (PowerX) for a collaboration on the development of the Power Transfer Vessel (Power ARK). |
| 2/15/2022 - On January 28, NYK and PowerX, Inc. (Power X) agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly study the possibility of collaboration on development of marine batteries for ships, in addition ... |
| 2/7/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), together with its two group companies and the following consortium partners, announced the completion of a successful sea trial of autonomous sailing using a large com... |
| 2/1/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. announced the completion of the hard sail system jointly developed under the "Wind Challenger" project at the Oshima shipyard. ... |
| 1/26/2022 - NAPA, the leading maritime software, services, and data analysis provider, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), one of the largest shipping companies in the world, and class society ClassNK have jointly d... |
| 1/25/2022 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) 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 oper... |
| 1/17/2022 - The Nippon Foundation, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, and Shin Nihonkai Ferry Co., Ltd., have successfully completed a demonstration test of the world’... |
| 1/13/2022 - Aconsortium consisting of Marubeni Corporation, Tryangle Inc., Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., and the City of Yokosuka applied to and secured a place in the “Joint Technological Development Progra... |
| 11/11/2021 - ? Sharing of knowledge and information necessary for realizing CO2 shipping will boost development of CO2 transport technologies and achievement of CCUS value chain business ? Collaborating with ... |
| 8/23/2021 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and MELTIN MMI Co., Ltd. announced the signing of memorandum of understanding (MoU) for installation of remotely controlled robots (Note 1) in ocean shipping operations... |
| 8/11/2021 - Taylor Maritime Investments Limited (TMI / TMIP), the specialist dry bulk shipping company, announces that it has successfully contracted to acquire seven Japanese-built geared Handysize bulk vessels,... |
| 8/10/2021 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced that on August 10, the wood chip carrier VANGUARDIA with a cargo capacity of 4.3 million-cubic feet, was delivered at Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. MOL will operate... |
| 8/2/2021 - As reported earlier, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) concluded an agreement in March with Mitsui E&S Holdings Co., Ltd. under which MHI will take over the Naval and Governmental Ships busines... |
| 7/27/2021 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced that MOL, MOL Drybulk, Ltd., Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Iknow Machinery Co., Ltd. have reached an agreement on joint research and development (R&D) of the "I... |
| 7/21/2021 - Globus Maritime Limited has taken delivery of the M/V “Power Globe”, a 2011-built Kamsarmax dry bulk carrier it acquired for a purchase price of $16.2 million, of which the Company had previously anno... |
| 7/20/2021 - JFE Steel Corporation announced has signed long-term deals with NYK Line, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines to charter three 210,000-ton LNG-fueled bulk carriers for transporting iron ore ... |
