Mitsui OSK Lines
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3362700001 |
| founding | 1872 |
| Seat | Minato , Tokyo , Japan |
| management | Junichiro Ikeda ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 10,508 |
| sales | 1,817.07 billion JPY 14.09 billion EUR |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | www.mol.co.jp |
| As of March 31, 2015 | |
The Mitsui OSK Lines, Ltd. ( Japanese 株式会社 商船 三井 Kabushiki kaisha Shōsen Mitsui ; MOL), listed in the Nikkei 225 , ISIN JP3362700001, is one of the largest shipping companies in the world based in Tokyo ( Japan ). Founded more than 120 years ago as part of the Mitsui - Zaibatsu (family-owned conglomerate), the company is now an independent part of the Mitsui- Keiretsu (group of companies).
In 1964 Mitsui Lines and Osaka Shosen Kaisha merged to form Mitsui OSK Line (MOL).
Together, MOL and its subsidiaries have a fleet of more than 700 ships. a. Includes container ships , bulk carriers , car carriers , cruise ships , ferries and tugs. The MOL includes a. also a logistics and a port operating company.
In Japan, MOL operates a dense network of ferry lines that connect all major ports in the country. In the field of container shipping, MOL is one of the 20 largest shipping companies in the world, with its ships serving numerous lines, primarily in East Asia , to Europe and to the American west coast . For this, u. a. currently the world's largest container ships, each with over EUR 20,000 thousand (as of May 2017).
Together with the shipping companies APL / NOL ( Singapore ) and Hyundai Merchant Marine ( South Korea ), MOL forms the consortium The New World Alliance (TNWA).
In May 2016, “The Alliance” was founded with Hapag-Lloyd , Nippon Yūsen , “K” Line , Yang Ming Line and Hanjin Shipping .
The three largest Japanese container shipping companies NYK , MOL and “K” Line agreed in October 2016 to merge their container activities and operate them as a joint company. NYK received a 38 percent share with a slot capacity of 592,000 TEU, K-Line with 358,000 TEU and MOL with 491,000 TEU each with 31%. On July 7th, 2017 the new company Ocean Network Express (ONE) was founded and started its work on April 1st, 2018. With a market share of 6.6% and a container capacity of 1,440,000 TEU, it ranks sixth among the largest container shipping companies.
In Germany , MOL is represented with branches in Bremen , Düsseldorf , Hamburg and Stuttgart .
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- ↑ a b MOL 2015 Annual Report ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 30, 2016.
- ↑ Converted at the rate on the balance sheet date, March 31, 2015.
- ^ The Alliance. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2017 ; accessed on May 31, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sebastian Reimann: Hapag-Lloyd founds large alliance , DVZ, May 13, 2016.
- ↑ Chris Cooper, Kiyotaka Matsuda: Japanese Shipping Companies to Merge Container Operations. In: gCaptain , October 30, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Shock for Japanese shipping lines as merger plan is rejected by US FMC . In: The Loadstar , May 3, 2017 (English).
- ^ Notice of Business Commencement of Ocean Network Express. Press release. Ocean Network Express, April 2, 2018, accessed April 3, 2018 .
- ^ Inauguration of Ocean Network Express. Ocean Network Express, accessed April 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Start of service at ONE , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung, April 3, 2018.
- ^ K Line, MOL and NYK name joint venture . In: Hansa - International Maritime Journal , May 31, 2017.
