Detailed information of merchant ship mitsui

The merchant ship Mitsui, together with Japanese steamboat and Kawasaki Steamboat, is known as Japan's three major shipping companies. Its net profit and total market value rank first in Japan, and its sales volume is second only to Japanese steamboat. There are two main sources of merchant mitsui, namely Osaka merchant ship established in 1884 and mitsui ship established in 1942, belonging to Sumitomo chaebol and Mitsui chaebol, two Japanese consortia. 1964, osaka merchant ship and mitsui ship merged into osaka merchant ship mitsui ship co., ltd, which initiated the merger of large chaebol companies in Japan. 1In April, 1999, Osaka Merchant Marine Mitsui merged with Navix Line, the fourth largest shipping company in Japan at that time, and was renamed Merchant Marine Mitsui.

Unlike shipping companies such as Maersk, which mainly transport containers, Mitsui's business scope involves all kinds of ships. By the end of March 2008, * * * had 845 merchant ships of various types, with a load of 54.34 million tons, making it the largest fleet in the world. At the same time, the merchant ship Mitsui has the largest LNG fleet in the industry, as well as powerful dry bulk carriers and automobile ro-ro ships, while the container transportation field ranks around 10 in the world. It is an obvious and interesting feature that the container of Mitsui, a merchant ship, is marked with crocodile carrying containers.

In the Fortune Global 500 ranking in 2008, merchant ships Mitsui and Maersk, Japan Post and COSCO were selected as the only four international shipping companies.