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'MOL Ambassadors', the Future Leaders of the Shipping Industry, Visit Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai

June 27, 2025

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that it invited a group of 10 MOL Ambassadors (Note 1)- elementary, junior high and high school students who will lead the next generation-to the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, and at the MOL exhibition booth in the "Future City Pavilion", provided hands-on learning using a large model of the Wind Hunter (Note 2), a next-generation zero-emission vessel that utilizes wind power to generate hydrogen. The MOL Ambassadors also visited the MOL-supported Mauritius pavilion (Note 3), and learned about the country's nature and culture, including a donated aquarium that recreates the seas of Mauritius, raising their awareness of environmental conservation.

Group photo in front of the Future City Pavilion
Ambassadors experiencing the MOL booth

MOL pursues "BLUE ACTION MOL", striving to balance corporate growth with a sustainable society, and has incorporated "for ALL", its intention to pursue social contribution activities, into these words, setting the MOL Group's social contribution activities as "BLUE ACTION for ALL". Activities like welcoming the LMS students represent MOL's initiatives on "next-generation human capital development".
While conveying to the children, who are our future leaders, the importance of protecting the ocean and the appeal of the shipping industry, MOL also provides opportunities to learn about the various technologies that MOL group is developing to address environmental issues and its initiatives to realize a sustainable future, and continues its activities to open up a prosperous future from the blue ocean.

For more details of the day's events and the impressions of the MOL ambassadors, visit our official YouTube and the following websites.

(Note 1) MOL Ambassadors are students who learn about the importance of protecting the oceans and the appeal of the shipping industry and play a role in communicating what they learn to their peers who will shape the future. Currently, 10 elementary, junior high, and high school students have been appointed as MOL Ambassadors and are actively engaged in their roles. For more details, please refer to the "MOL Information" below.
- November 24, 2023: MOL Holds Inauguration Ceremony for 2023 'MOL Student Ambassadors' and 'Presentation of Proposal for Creating the Ship of the Future' - Creating the Future with Tomorrow's Leaders -

(Note 2) MOL Group is sponsoring the 2025 Expo Osaka, Kansai, Japan's Future Showcase Project "Future Life Expo: Future City" as a bronze partner and exhibiting "Wind Hunter". The actual exhibition features a 4m x 3m model of the Wind Hunter, allowing visitors to enjoy a hands-on attraction where they can intuitively learn how the Wind Hunter navigates using the wind, and how it produces and supplies hydrogen.
For details on the Wind Hunter exhibition at the Expo, please refer to the following.
WIND VISION ("Future Life Expo: Future City", one of the Future Society Showcase Projects at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japa) | Mitsui O.S.K. Lines

(Note 3) Please refer to the following URL for details of MOL activities in Mauritius to date.
Support for Mauritius: The ocean: connecting people, connecting to the future | BLUE ACTION MOL | Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
MOL for Mauritius | Mitsui O.S.K. Lines

"BLUE ACTION MOL" is a general term for the Sustainable Action by MOL Group that balance corporate growth and a sustainable society. We have incorporated the intention "for ALL" to promote social contribution activities as a group for all environments and creatures on earth into this word and have set MOL Group's social contribution activities as "BLUE ACTION for ALL", as the group's social contribution activities to promote activities based on priority areas.
Social Contribution Activities | Sustainability | Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.