Mitsui O.S.K. Lines

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.

MOL headquarters in Toranomon, Tokyo
Native name	株式会社商船三井
Company type	Public (KK)
Traded as	TYO: 9104
Industry	Transport
Founded	1884; 141 years ago (1884)
Headquarters	Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo , Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Number of employees	8,547
Website	www.mol.co.jp

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (Japanese: 株式会社商船三井, romanized: Kabushiki-gaisha Shōsen Mitsui; abbreviated MOL) is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.^[1] It is one of the largest shipping companies in the world.

MOL fleet includes dry cargo ships (bulk carriers), liquefied natural gas carriers, Ro-Ro Car Carrier ships, oil tankers, container ships (among which mv MOL Triumph is the 4th largest containership in the world), and container terminals. The company's container shipping operations were merged with those of NYK Line and K Line and rebranded as Ocean Network Express in April 2018, with MOL holding a 31% stake in the joint venture.^[2]

MOL is also active in passenger shipping. MOL Cruises [ja] operates cruise ships such as the MS Nippon Maru [ja] and MS Mitsui Ocean Fuji, with three more large vessels expected to join the fleet by the end of the 2020s. MOL's subsidiary, MOL Sunflower [ja], operates daily domestic ferry routes between Greater Tokyo and Hokkaido, as well as between Kansai and Kyushu.

Founded as a key part of the Mitsui zaibatsu (family-owned conglomerate) during the early industrialization of Japan, the company remains part of the Mitsui keiretsu (group of aligned companies) after the dissolution of the zaibatsu in the post-war period.^[3]