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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
439,330
Summed over 7 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (川崎汽船株式会社, Kawasaki Kisen Kabushiki gaisha; branded as "K" Line) is a Japanese transportation company. It owns a fleet that includes dry cargo ships (bulk carriers), container ships, liquefied natural gas carriers, Ro-Ro ships, tankers, and container terminals. It used to be the fourteenth largest container transportation and shipping company in the world, before becoming part of Ocean Network Express in 2017.
Origin
K Line was founded in 1919 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder
Kōjirō Matsukata
1865–1950
Japanese businessman (1865–1950)
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · file
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Subsidiaries and units (1)
Fleet on record
Composition of the 7 vessels this registry attributes to K Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 1 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 49,888 | 6 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 6 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 6 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9229439 | Oil tanker | Marshall Islands | — | 160,229 | — | 329.9 m | Imabari Shipbuilding | |
| 9302140 | Container ship | Panama | 2006 | 98,747 | — | 336.0 m | IHI Corporation | |
| 9667344 | Car carrier | Panama | 2013 | 59,525 | 18,549 | 199.0 m | Imabari Shipbuilding | |
| 9851311 | Unclassified | Japan | 2019 | 49,888 | 88,703 | 229.9 m | Imabari Shipbuilding | |
| 9205964 | Car carrier | Panama | 1999 | 49,212 | — | 179.2 m | Tsuneishi Shipbuilding | |
| 9470753 | Container ship | Panama | 2009 | 17,211 | 21,927 | 171.9 m | Imabari Shipbuilding | |
| 9482354 | Unclassified | Norway | 2010 | 4,518 | — | 94.9 m | Trosvik Verksted |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 7 vessels attributed to it here, K Line is the 123rd 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 K Line ranks 5th 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 1919, K Line is 107 years old. This directory holds 60 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.
Same country
COSCO Shipping Lines
#4 by capacity · 2 on record · est. 1964
Ocean Network Express
#6 by capacity · 42 on record · est. 2017
Nippon Yusen
14 on record · est. 1885
Japanese National Railways
9 on record · est. 1949
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
8 on record · est. 2004
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
7 on record · est. 1964
JR Kyushu Jet Ferry
5 on record · est. 2005

Shinnihonkai Ferry
4 on record · est. 1969
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q425880, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from K Line on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.