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Ferry & Domestic Transport
Update: 4/27/09

MOL's ferry and domestic transport network links major consumer markets and industrial zones nationwide. We are strengthening our business base while strategically boosting group-wide power and competitiveness by proactive consolidation and restructuring of group companies. Thus, our Group plays an important role in Japan's domestic logistics. Amid growing concern about the environment, the Group also cotributes to environmental protection in respect of both people and cargo movements, by promoting the modal shift and providing an environmentaly superb transportation method with its confortable and graceful onboard service.

<Business Performance during FY2008>
In the ferry and domestic transport business, as part of our core business strategy, we have proactively consolidated and restructured group companies to enhance competitiveness, creating group-wide strength and synergy. Earnings in this sector were flat during the second half of the fiscal year, but skyrocketing bunker prices in the first half reduced profits and the slowdown of the global economy had a huge impact on the physical distribution business in Japan. Our group companies were acutely affected by these factors....more

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MOL Group Ferry Services and Capacity
Service Calling ports Operator Sailing /
week
Capacity /week (person/unit)
Passenger Passenger car Truck
Kanto /
Hokkaido
Oarai /
Tomakomai
Shosen Mitsui Ferry Co.,Ltd. 12 9,870 1,668 3,768
Kanto / Kita-Kyushu Tokyo / Tokuyama / Hakata / Iwakuni / Uno Shosen Mitsui Ferry Co.,Ltd. 12 144 3,012 1,920
Oihama / Omaezaki / Karita / Oita Shosen Mitsui Ferry Co.,Ltd. 8 80 480 1,128
Hanshin / Kyushu Osaka / Shin-Moji Meimon Taiyo Ferry Co.,Ltd. 13 19,022 2,600 4,440
Osaka / Shibushi The Diamond Ferry Co.,Ltd 14 10,948 1,960 2,450
Osaka / Kobe / Imabari / Matsuyama / Oita The Diamond Ferry Co.,Ltd 21 17,066 1,470 2,632
Osaka / Kobe / Imabari / Matsuyama / Oita/Beppu Kansai Kisen Co.,Ltd. 21 15,953 1,820 2,100
Shikoku /
Kyushu
Matsuyama /
Kokura
Kansai Kisen Co.,Ltd. 14 7,952 574 1,022
Major MOL Group Companies
  Company name Location Homepage
Consolidated MOL Naikou, Ltd. Japan http://www.mol-naikou.co.jp/
MOL Ferry Co., Ltd. Japan http://www.sunflower.co.jp/
The Diamond Ferry Co.,Ltd. Japan http://www.diamond-ferry.co.jp/
Sea-Road Express Co.,Ltd. Japan http://www.searox.co.jp/
Accounted for by
equity method
Meimon Taiyo Ferry Co.,Ltd. Japan http://www.cityline.co.jp/
Kansai Kisen Co.,Ltd. Japan http://www.kanki.co.jp/
MOL web site "MOL Services : Ferry and Domestic Transport"
Related Press Release
5/7/07   The Diamond Ferry Co., Ltd and Blue Highway Line West Japan Announce Merger
3/8/07   MOL Ferry and Kyushu Kyuko Ferry to Merge
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