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water transport

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines

Headquarters: Tokyo
Founded: 1964
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Ajwaldrop at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

498,464

Summed over 6 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Mitsui O.S.K. Lines is

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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (Japanese: 株式会社商船三井, romanized: Kabushiki-gaisha Shōsen Mitsui; abbreviated MOL) is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the largest shipping companies in the world and the largest tanker owning and operating company in the world.
Founded as a key part of the Mitsui zaibatsu (family-owned conglomerate) during the early industrialization of Japan, the company remains part of the Mitsui keiretsu (group of aligned companies) after the dissolution of the zaibatsu in the post-war period.

MOL fleet includes dry cargo ships (bulk carriers), liquefied natural gas carriers, Ro-Ro Car Carrier ships, oil tankers, container ships (among which mv MOL Triumph is the 4th largest containership in the world), and container terminals. The company's container shipping operations were merged with those of NYK Line and K Line and rebranded as Ocean Network Express in April 2018, with MOL holding a 31% stake in the joint venture.

MOL is also active in passenger shipping. MOL Cruises operates cruise ships such as the MS Nippon Maru and MS Mitsui Ocean Fuji, with three more large vessels expected to join the fleet by the end of the 2020s. MOL's subsidiary, MOL Sunflower, operates daily domestic ferry routes between Greater Tokyo and Hokkaido, as well as between Kansai and Kyushu.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: kabushiki gaisha
Country of registration: Japan
Headquarters: Tokyo
Formed in: —
Founded: 1964
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Listed on: Tokyo Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: JP3362700001
Legal Entity Identifier: 353800P8O843TMAZ6S09
Head office coordinates: 35.6839, 139.7744

Ships on record here: 7
Vessel types operated: 6
Flag states used: 4
Average vessel age: 27.7 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1985
Newest vessel on record: 2010
Largest vessel by tonnage: 160,596
Average tonnage: 83,077
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 7 vessels this registry attributes to Mitsui O.S.K. Lines. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Japan Marine United Corporation2

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries1

Mitsui Chiba Shipyard1

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding1

Shin Kurushima Dockyard1

Shinkurushima Toyohashi Shipbuilding1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

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. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	6
2018	—	6
2019	—	6
2020	—	6
2021	—	6
2022	—	6
2023	—	6
2024	—	6
2025	—	6
2026	—	6

Vessel records

Ships on record · Research / survey

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
ARV Mirai Ⅱ	9990208	Research / survey	Japan	—	—	—	—	Japan Marine United Corporation

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

How Mitsui O.S.K. Lines compares

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, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines 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 Mitsui O.S.K. Lines 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 1964, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines is 62 years old. This directory holds 88 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.