January 30, 2025
TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that on January 30, 2025, the multi-purpose vessel (Note) Prima Verde, operated by its group company MOL Drybulk Ltd. (President: Koichi Hirata; Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) and effectively owned by Daishin Shipping Co., Ltd (President: Takayoshi Manabe; Headquarters: Osaka-shi, Osaka), was delivered at Onomichi Dockyard, Co., Ltd. (President: Takashi Nakabe; Headquarters: Kobe-shi, Hyogo Prefecture).
The vessel has a range of environmentally friendly features, and is the world's first vessel of any type to use green steel materials, an engine that can run exclusively on marine gas oil (MGO) and a wind assisted vessel propulsion system.
<Features of the vessel>
The MOL Group aims to achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2050 as stated in the "MOL Group Environmental Vision 2.2" through environmentally friendly transport such as this project.
(Note) The term "multi-purpose vessels" refers to vessels that transport steel products, construction machinery, heavy machinery, plants, railroad vehicles, bulk cargoes, etc.
<Outline of the vessel>
LOA/Breadth | 129.66m/23.6m |
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Deadweight tonnage (summer draft) | 17,611 tons |
Registry | Liberia |
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 "Environment -Conservation for Marine and global environment-" and "Innovation -Innovation for development in marine technology-".