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water transport

Shinnihonkai Ferry

新日本海フェリー株式会社

Headquarters: Osaka Prefecture
Founded: 1969
Employees: —

Official website

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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

76,656

Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Shinnihonkai Ferry is

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Shin Nihonkai Ferry Co., Ltd. (新日本海フェリー株式会社, Shin Nihonkai Ferry Kabushiki-gaisha) is a marine transportation company based in Japan.
Shin Nihonkai Ferry collaborated with Mitsubishi Shipbuilding in demonstrating the first successful sea voyage using an unmanned, fully autonomous navigation system on 17 January 2022, ferrying 240 kilometres, from Shinmoji in Northern Kyushu, to the Iyonada Sea, over seven hours, with a maximum speed of 26 knots.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: 新日本海フェリー株式会社
Industry: water transport
Legal form: kabushiki gaisha
Country of registration: Japan
Headquarters: Osaka Prefecture
Formed in: Otaru
Founded: 1969
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 34.6863, 135.5199

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 8.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2004
Newest vessel on record: 2026
Largest vessel by tonnage: 31,389
Average tonnage: 19,164
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Shinnihonkai Ferry. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works3

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries1

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. 3 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	1	31,389	2
2018	0	—	2
2019	0	—	2
2020	0	—	2
2021	0	—	2
2022	0	—	2
2023	0	—	2
2024	0	—	2
2025	1	14,157	3
2026	1	14,300	4

Vessel records

Ships on record

4 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Lavender	9810824	Unclassified	Japan	2017	31,389	—	198.0 m	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works
Akashia	9288617	Ferry	Japan	2004	16,810	—	224.0 m	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Hamanasu	1028750	Ferry	Japan	2026	14,300	—	199.0 m	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works
Keyaki	1028748	Ro-Ro	Japan	2025	14,157	—	199.0 m	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works

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 Shinnihonkai Ferry compares

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

With 4 vessels attributed to it here, Shinnihonkai Ferry is the 213th 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 Shinnihonkai Ferry ranks 8th 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 1969, Shinnihonkai Ferry is 57 years old. This directory holds 115 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.