MOL Moves Kansai Branch Office; Holds Opening Ceremony
- Moves Sumiyoshitaisha Shrine to New Location -

May 20, 2025

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that it relocated the Kansai Branch Office from the 25th floor of the Nakanoshima Daibiru Building to the fourth floor of the Daibiru-Honkan Building, which spans nearly 100 years of history, and held an opening ceremony on May 20.
One of our predecessor companies, Osaka Shosen Kaisha (OSK Line), relocated its headquarters to this location "the Daibiru-Honkan Building" 100 years ago in 1925. Now, exactly a century later, the Kansai Branch Office has returned to the very same place.

Shrine interior finishing

Reassembling the shrine

The Kansai Branch Office, which is descended from OSK Line, has many occasions to host visitors from companies and government agencies in the Hanshin region. The Branch Office was renovated and relocated to serve as a "touchdown" office for executives and employees and to promote broader communication, as part of the MOL Group's human capital initiative.

Since its establishment in 1884, OSK Line revered Sumiyoshitaisha shrine, which enshrines the god of the sea, affectionately called "Sumiyossan" by local residents. It has long served as a standing representative of the shrine, maintaining a branch shrine in its head office. The MOL Kansai Branch Office has taken over the branch shrine. In this relocation, the shrine was restored by Kongo Gumi Co., Ltd., the world's oldest corporation, dating back more than 1,400 years.

Special guests on hand to celebrate the new voyage of the Kansai Branch Office included Lord Chief Shinto Priest of Sumiyoshitaisha Shrine Yasushi Oka, Kongo Gumi Co., Ltd. President Junichiro Otsuki, and government officials.

In the Kansai region, our group operates a wide range of businesses, including real estate services provided by Daibiru Corporation, ferry services offered by MOL Sunflower Ltd., as well as logistics, port operations, tugboat services, maritime consulting, and trading operations.

In addition to the zero-emission vessel interactive attraction exhibited at the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, the MOL Museum "Funeshiru," featuring hands-on and interactive displays, is scheduled to open in Osaka on July 19, creating new ways for people in Kansai to learn more about MOL and the shipping industry.

Taking this relocation as an opportunity, MOL will proactively pursue the three basic policies of its domestic regional strategy-strengthening existing businesses, developing new customers and businesses, and contributing to the local community-in the Kansai region, the birthplace of the company.

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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 "Human & Community -Contributing to the growth and development of people and communities-".