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automotive industry

Nissan

日産自動車株式会社

Headquarters: Yokohama
Founded: 1933
Employees: 136,134

Official website

Photo: Akonnchiroll · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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

1,140

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Nissan is

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Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The company sells its vehicles under the Nissan and Infiniti brands, and formerly the Datsun brand, with in-house performance tuning products (including cars) under the Nismo and Autech brands. The company can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century with the Nissan zaibatsu, or Nissan Group.
Since 1999, Nissan has been part of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance (with Mitsubishi joining in 2016), a partnership between Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors of Japan, with Renault of France. As of November 2023, Renault holds a 15% voting stake in Nissan, while Nissan holds another 15% stake in Renault. Since October 2016, Nissan held a 34% controlling stake in Mitsubishi Motors. In November 2024, Nissan reduced its stake in Mitsubishi Motors from 34% to 24%.

In 2017, Nissan was the sixth largest automaker in the world, after Toyota, Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor Group, General Motors, and Ford. With a revenue of $78 billion in 2022, Nissan was the ninth largest automobile maker in the world. After making a ¥671 billion loss in the 2024/2025 financial year, new CEO Ivan Espinosa announced that Nissan will by 2027 close seven factories with the loss of 20,000 jobs, and reduce car models from 56 to 45 to focus investment on more profitable models.

Origin

Who founded it

Nissan was founded in 1933 in Yokohama by 3 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Yoshisuke Aikawa

1880–1967

Japanese entrepreneur and businessman (1880-1967)

Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · file

Founder

Den Kenjirō

1855–1930

Japanese politician (1855-1930)

Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · file

Founder

William R. Gorham

1888–1949

Japanese engineer (1888–1949)

Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · file

People

Leadership on record

Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.

Chief executive

Makoto Uchida

1966

Japanese businessman

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: 日産自動車株式会社
Industry: automotive industry
Legal form: kabushiki gaisha
Country of registration: Japan
Headquarters: Yokohama
Formed in: Yokohama
Founded: 1933
Dissolved: —
Employees: 136,134
Listed on: Tokyo Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: JP3672400003
Legal Entity Identifier: 353800DRBDH1LUTNAY26
Head office coordinates: 35.4503, 139.6342

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 14.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2012
Newest vessel on record: 2012
Largest vessel by tonnage: 1,140
Average tonnage: 1,140
Market share: —
Parent company: Renault
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Reported financials

Financial year 2018

All figures in GBP

Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.

Revenue

12.0tn GBP

Reported for 2018

Operating income

575bn GBP

Reported for 2018

Net profit

764bn GBP

Reported for 2018

Total assets

18.7tn GBP

Reported for 2018

Corporate structure

Ownership and holdings

Parent company

Renault

Owned by

Mercedes-Benz GroupRenault

Services and products

cartruck

Subsidiaries and units (24)

Nissan Motor Car Carrier2 shipsDatsunInfinitiNissan ShataiAichi Machine IndustryAutomotive Energy Supply CorporationNissan Motor Manufacturing UKRenault–Nissan–Mitsubishi AllianceNismoNissan Motor IbéricaRenault Nissan Automotive India Private LimitedCalsonic KanseiNissan Motor IndonesiaNissan Motor KyushuNissan New ZealandNISSAN TRADING CO., LTD.Nissan Technical Center North AmericaNissan FranceJatcoAutoTechnicJapan CO.,LTDNissan Car Rental SolutionsNissan Network HoldingsNissan Financial ServicesNissan Kohki

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Nissan. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified1

By flag state

Japan1

By shipbuilder

Shin Kurushima Dockyard1

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	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Nichioh Maru	9609184	Unclassified	Japan	2012	1,140	—	170.0 m	Shin Kurushima Dockyard

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 Nissan compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Nissan is the 492nd 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 Nissan ranks 22nd 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 1933, Nissan is 93 years old. This directory holds 42 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.