Shipping & Marine Services News in Japan
| 7/20/2021 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced the signing of a long-term contract with JFE Steel Corporation for long-term transport using an LNG-fueled bulk carrier. Also, MOL and Nihon Shipyard Co... |
| 7/15/2021 - Methanex Corporation and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) are pleased to announce that the parties have concluded Key Commercial Terms for the purchase and sale of an equity position in, and the establ... |
| 6/7/2021 - DuPont Personal Protection, RecoveryPRO and BELFOR Group teamed up to conduct a deep cleaning aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship following an outbreak of COVID-19 among its passengers and crew in... |
| 5/12/2021 - TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd. starts to collect actual operation data for a new ship under construction by IoS-OP*1. The data to be collected includes the draft and shaft horsepower as w... |
| 3/29/2021 - On March 1st, 2021, Marubeni Corporation and Unseenlabs SAS (hereinafter, “Unseenlabs”) signed a commercial partnership agreement to provide the entire Japanese market with Unseenlabs’ high added-valu... |
| 3/29/2021 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has reached a final agreement with Mitsui E&S Holdings Co., Ltd. under which MHI will take over the Naval and Governmental Ships business of Mitsui E&S Shipbuil... |
| 3/25/2021 - Leading classification society ClassNK has begun joint investigative research with Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Sompo Japan) on risk assessment of autonomous ships. ... |
| 3/12/2021 - Leading Classification Society ClassNK has granted its Remote Survey (RMSV) notation for CENTURY HIGHWAY GREEN, an LNG-fueled PCC operated by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” LINE). This is the first ... |
| 3/8/2021 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced an upgrade to the AR navigation system (Note 1), jointly developed with Furuno Electric Co., Ltd., that enables the system to automatically display borders be... |
| 3/1/2021 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. and Ship Data Center Co., Ltd. have agreed to share the data of about 180 MOL’s ships in operation targeted for MOL’s “FOCUS Project”*1 through IoS Open Platform (IoS-OP)*2, ... |
| 1/5/2021 - Leading Classification Society ClassNK has been analyzing the retrofitting status of ballast water management systems (BWMS) on its registered ships periodically since 2018. The status has been update... |
| 10/19/2020 - Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, was granted Approval in Principle (AIP)(Note1) from the French Classification Society, Bureau Veritas (BV), for a ... |
