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Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan Opens to Public: MOL Exhibit Offers Hands-on Experience at the Future City Pavilion

April 14, 2025

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced the opening of the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan started from April 13, which MOL sponsors as a Bronze Partner. Based on the concept of "Wind Vision," MOL is exhibiting a large-scale model of Wind Hunter (Note 1), a next-generation zero-emission vessel that produces and transports hydrogen by capturing wind, as a hands-on attraction for visitors, at the "Future City Pavilion" (Note 2), in the Future Life Expo, a Future Society Showcase Project.

MOL's exhibit space
Staff uniforms are imaged as future researchers' working clothes

[Highlights of the exhibit]

1. Hands-on "Wind Vision Attraction": When wind-generated by visitors waving traditional Japanese uchiwa fans-is blown through the 4-meter-long, 3-meter-high Wind Hunter model, a simulated voyage begins, and scenes of how hydrogen is produced, transported, and supplied are shown on the large screen in the back. Not only the sails of the model expand, contract, and rotate in conjunction with the wind, but the ending scene also changes depending on the amount of wind generated. This is one of the few visitor-participation attractions in the Future City Pavilion that allows visitors to play and learn as if they were enjoying a game, by linking models and images. Visitors can also take home the original uchiwa fans used for the demonstration as souvenirs of their visit.

An image projected at the hands-on "Wind Vision Attraction"

2. Original video: The 5images projected on the large screen at any given time are based on the themes of "Creating a Hydrogen Society," "Harnessing the Infinite Wind," "Connecting Manufacturing," "Creating Value in Daily Life," and "Moving the Future," expressing the relationship of vessels with society, industry, and people, and brings the shipping industry closer to the visitors. In addition, a collaborative video of the exhibits featuring the Wind Hunter, which produces hydrogen, and the hydrogen-fueled next-generation mobility,(Note 3) exhibited by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. will be both projected on a powerful 17-meter-long screen.

3. Integrated production with Kawasaki Heavy Industries: The exhibition will adopt a joint exhibition format with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. which shares the common theme of hydrogen, and will feature collaborative video projection to give visitors a sense of the evolution of a future hydrogen society and mobility on a larger scale.

Exhibit booth created in collaboration with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

[Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan Outline of MOL's Exhibit]

  • Dates: Sunday, April 13, 2025 – Monday (Holiday), October 13, 2025
  • Exhibit Zone: "Future Society Showcase" pavilion, "Transportation and Mobility" zone
Future City Pavilion Exterior
Future City venue floor

The MOL Group has positioned environmental strategy as one of a keys to its management plan "BLUE ACTION 2035" and pursues initiatives to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 and sustainable development of people, society, and the Earth.

(Note 1)
This project aims to achieve complete zero GHG emissions by adopting the technology of the Wind Challenger, a hard sail wind propulsion system, and the know-how of the Wind Hunter, a green hydrogen production vessel that can create, store, and transport hydrogen while sailing under offshore wind power.
Related website: WIND HUNTER Project - Shape the future with the wind and hydrogen

(Note 2)
"Future City" is the key element of the "Future Society Showcase," a joint exhibition project by the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition and 12 sponsoring companies and organizations, and one of the largest pavilions at the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai. The showcase includes the "Future Experience with 15 attractions." For more information about "Future City" and the sponsorship and exhibits, please see the links below.

*MOL Expo Special Page: WIND VISION "Future Life Expo: Future City" Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai

(Note 3) Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. website: https://www.khi.co.jp/expo2025/index_en.html

MOL Group 5 Sustainability Issues
MOL Group identifies "Sustainability Issues" (Materiality) as our key issues for sustainable growth with society through realization of the Group Vision. We anticipate this initiative to contribute especially to the realization of "Safety & Value -Provide added value through safe transportation and our social infrastructure business-", "Environment -Conservation for Marine and global environment-" ,"Human & Community -Contributing to the growth and development of people and communities-" and "Innovation -Innovation for development in marine technology-."