MOL to try robotics in ship operations

Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines is exploring a novel solution for the growing lack of seafarers as well as the need to improve safety and efficiency

MOL and K Line to develop liquid CO2 carriers

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), two of Japan’s largest shipping lines, are part of a team setting out to design

MOL to procure vessel for biomass transport

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) has announced that it plans to procure a new-building Panamax bulker to transport woody biomass for energy as its main

Ocean Carrier MOL to Cut Fleet on Shrinking Trade

Mitsui OSK Lines, Japan’s largest ship owner, is cutting its fleet by 5% over the next three years on expectations of a deep decline in trade

MOL introduces augmented reality-based navigation system

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced that, along with Furuno Electric Co. Ltd, it made a joint presentation of their advanced augmented reality (AR)-based Navigation

MOL in cooperation agreement for LNG transshipment projects

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and PAO NOVATEK signed a Cooperation Agreement for LNG transshipment projects in Kamchatka and Murmansk,

ABS & MOL to collaborate on up to 14 new VLECs & LNGCs

ABS and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on up to 14 new gas carriers. The agreement covers

MOL and Japanese shipyards design next-generation coal carrier

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced a vessel design it calls “EeneX”, for a 90-type (90,000 DWT) next-generation coal carrier, developed in cooperation with Japanese

MOL delivers Very Large Crude Carrier

MOL has announced the delivery of a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), Phoenix Jamnagar, on April 24, which was built at Japan Marine United Corporation