Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced the completion of a tabletop drill done in cooperation with the 5th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters. The scenario entailed a containership operated by MOL Liner Division (Hong Kong) and managed by an MOL Group ship management company (Hong Kong) colliding with a coastal freighter in Osaka Bay, Japan. The [...]
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced the conclusion of a contract for a long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) transport with Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. and Kyushu Electric Power Co., Ltd. As MOL has concluded the contract with Osaka Gas and Kyushu Electric Power, it will soon sign a contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. [...]
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) today announced its new Asia‐Mexico Express Service, departing Ningbo on June 24,2013. MOL will offer a new weekly service operated by Hapag-Lloyd. In addition to the present CWL services calling Manzanillo, MOL will be able to enrich direct coverage for emerging Mexican ports of Ensenada and Lazaro Cardenas. MOL is [...]
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Pacific International Lines (Pte) Ltd. (PIL) today jointly announced their new Indian Ocean Island Express Service (“IOX”/“IOI”) departing Singapore on June 7, 2013. IOX/IOI is a weekly service jointly operated by MOL and PIL, and each will provide 2 ships of 1100 teu effective capacity. MOL and PIL will [...]
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Today, MOL has confirmed that the company participated in both the ownership of six new LNG ships to be built in China by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co.,Ltd. (Hudong) and the associated ship-management agreements through the relevant joint ventures that are already formed in Hong Kong with MOL’s participation stake of 20 % for each joint [...]
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced completion of work to install a ballast water treatment system on the very large crude oil carrier (VLCC) Libra Trader at Keppel Shipyard in Singapore. On January 10, the company announced plans to install the system on a VLCC ahead of IMO installation compulsion. MOL is the first Japanese [...]
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. yesterday announced the launch of a campaign targeting all MOL-operated vessels, starting on April 15. MOL forges ahead to become the world leader in safe operation. As part of these efforts, President Muto, executives, and other personnel will visit MOL-operated vessels to meet on-board employees and exchange information and opinions about [...]
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. on Friday announced the first container CADET training vessel have called Tokyo with 4 cadets in the new training program. On March 6, MOL announced the launch of a training program called Cadet Actual Deployment for Education with Tutorial (CADET Training). The program covers not only safety education and basic/proficiency training, [...]
MODEC, Inc., Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. and Marubeni Corporation have agreed that Mitsui, MOL and Marubeni will invest in a long-term charter business (“Project”), operated by MODEC, for the purpose of providing a floating production, storage, and offloading system ( FPSO) for the use in the Iracema Norte area of a [...]
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. yesterday announced the presentation of the MOL Safety Conference 2013 at the following four cities around the world from mid-February through early March: The event opened with a strong message from MOL Chairman Akimitsu Ashida and President Koichi Muto, who said, “Safe operation is key to winning credibility and trust from [...]
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