 Today's containerships transport a wide variety of cargoes - from completed products, parts and components, raw materials, foods, and other general consumer products. This sector shows continual, steady growth in step with changes in the international division of labor and rising global population. MOL offers its own high-quality services and works closely with other major carriers, particularly through The New World Alliance (TNWA) with APL and Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) on the east-west trade. We also provide stable, reliable services on trades serving emerging nations in Asia, South America, and Africa, meeting customer needs through an extensive network developed over long period of liner operation.
In the logistics business, MOL customers can count on our ever-expanding worldwide network and decades of accumulated expertise. By fully understanding customer needs, we can offer optimum solutions and a full range of services.
<Business Performance during FY2010>
Regarding Containerships, since FY2009, we have continued effecting various measures such as cutting costs through fuel savings by slow steaming as well as reducing other cargo expenses, improving efficiency through the optimization of our organization both in Japan and overseas, etc. all in an effort to enhance our cost competitiveness. Regarding principal cargo trade lifted by the economic recovery, it improved considerably from the previous fiscal year for East-West trade route and South-North trade route, and improved slightly from the previous fiscal year for Intra-Asia trade, which was fast to recover from the Lehman Shock...more |