Japanese National Railways

With 9 vessels attributed to it here, Japanese National Railways is the 101st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Japan is the country of registration for 69 commercial operators in this directory, among which Japanese National Railways ranks 3rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 153 vessels here. 2 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Japan.

Founded in 1949, Japanese National Railways is 77 years old. This directory holds 79 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.