TOKYO KISEN
Commitment to Maritime Safety

Greetings
Ensuring Maritime Safety: Tokyo Kisen’s constant mission.
Tokyo Kisen’s Service Areas

Tokyo Kisen, as a towage company, considers maritime safety to be its
primary mission. Since first being established in 1947 as Japan’ s firstcommercial tugboat operator we have been assisting with the navigationalsafety of ships throughout Tokyo Bay, the center of Japanese maritime

Port of Tokyo

transportation, and one of the busiest global sea traffic areas.
Port of Chiba

Our company services are available 24 hours every day of the year in
thereby flexibly accommodating the maritime safety needs of clients. We
provide a wide range of towage services from harbor towage in which we

Port of Kawasaki

assist ships to safely berth and unberth at ports in Tokyo Bay, an escort
tug service that safeguards the routes of large ships transporting
hazardous materials along the Uraga Channel-Nakanose route, aPort of Yokohama
Nakanose routedisaster-prevention service that includes berth patrols and providing
Port of Kisarazu

assistance with oil-spills, and emergency support services that include
immediately responding to the need for ships to be rescued andlife-saving operations in the event of an accident occurring in Tokyo Bay
and the surrounding area. Fundamental to our business is undertaking tofulfill any possible request involving tugboats.

Port of Yokosuka
Uraga channel route

Tugboats equipped with state-of-the-art technology as well as
extremely experienced crews allow us to perform these towage services ina safe and reliable manner. Our onshore support system also enables
swift action to be taken in the event of emergencies and disasters at sea.
As a professional maritime safety company we are trusted by our clientsand various other maritime community parties, including ship operators
and agents, shipyards, terminals, LNG-related parties, pilots, and theJapanese Coast Guard.
In addition to towage services in Tokyo Bay we also operateinternationally through joint ventures in Hong Kong and mainland China,
where we make full use of the our accumulated expertise. We also have a
network of local towage companies at ports throughout Japan available
through capital investment.
We are a leader in the industry with the largest tugboat fleet in Japan,
where we are also the only listed towage company. We intend to continue
to serve clients with a safe, swift and efficient towage service in thereby
ensuring the safe navigation of their vessels. We also believe our towage
services contribute to the efficiency of maritime traffic and conservation of
the marine environment.

Harbor towage services
Ship assists in the berthing and unberthing of vessels
Towage services at shipyards

We assist with the berthing and unberthing of large vessels in a timely, safe,and precise manner through use of state-of-the-art tugboats
and an array of techniques.

Our tugboats assisting an ore carrier berthing

The role of our harbor tugboats is to assist in the safe and smooth
berthing and unberthing of both small and large vessels. We provide
h a r b o r t o w a g e s e r v i c e s a t p o r t s t h ro u g h o u t To k y o B a y. O u rstate-of-the-art tugboats boast a bollard pull of over 50 tons and swift
maneuverability, both of which are essential in the berthing andunberthing of large vessels.
We offer this service in Yokohama Port where a wide variety of shipsthat include container ships, oil tankers, LNG and LPG carriers,
specialist car carriers and ore carriers, are constantly calling, along with
Kawasaki Port where vessels carrying hazardous materials enter anddepart oil tank sea berths, LNG tank berths, and gas terminals. Our highperformance tugboats are constantly on guard in thereby ensuring thesafety of ports.
Around Chiba and the surrounding area our state-of-the-art tugboats
are equipped with powerful fire-extinguishing and oil recovery equipmentin thus allowing them to play a major role in assisting in the safe berthing
and unberthing of ships at one of Japan’ s largest sea berths, along with
the numerous LNG stations and petroleum plants around the area.
In the Yokosuka area we have tugboat services available at New
Yokosuka Port, and berths for specialist car carriers at Oppama.
Toko Service Co., Ltd., a group company, provides harbor towage
services at Tokyo Port, which handles a large volume of containers.
We also provide towages at shipyards in Tokyo Bay, along withservices that require both experience and technical capabilities, such as
assisting in the quick movement of ships under construction or repair.

Izumo-maru assisting a heavy lift ship berthing

Our tugboats assisting in a shipyard

Kashima-maru assisting a container ship berthingEscort tug services
Safeguarding the route of vessels carrying hazardous materials and large vessels
Pilot boats

Ensuring the safety of vessels along the Uraga Channel-Nakanose route,one of the busiest global sea lanes, is at the essence of our business.
High-speed escort tugboats based in Yokosuka guide large vessels, vessels
carrying hazardous materials, and vessels towing long objects along theUraga channel-Nakanose route. The Uraga channel-Nakanose route is oneof the worlds most congested, and often crowded with large numbers ofvessels of all kinds, including fishing boats and pleasure craft, thus exposing
them to extremely high risk.
Our proprietary design escort tugboats feature high speed and are very
powerful and mobile, thus enabling them to operate in stormy weather even.
Our tugboats are essential in ensuring the safe navigation of vessels as they

are capable of avoiding any danger when escorting, assisting vessels toanchor, or towing vessels crippled by engine or helm failures. These
operations are supported by the expertise and knowledge the crews
possess on the relevant sea areas.
In addition to escort tug services we also provide pilot services, thus making
maritime safety operations in the Uraga Channel and Tokyo Bay more
effective and efficient. Our pilot boat operation, which involves pilots bothboarding and disembarking from ships at the entrance to Tokyo Bay, has
never resulted in a single accident, although the area can be very rough.

Kanto-maru escorting a LNG carrier

Uraga-maru escorting a LNG carrier

Emergency Support
Disaster Prevention

Ship rescue
Watch boats
Oil-spill recovery
Fire extinguishing
Life saving

Our round-the-clock response system is supported by both sea and shore based staff,
thus enabling us to take swift action in the event of an accident at sea.
Emergency support
Our round-the-clock response system is supported by both sea and shore based staff members, who
are fully capable in the event of an accident at sea. Should a ship run aground or experience engine
trouble in Tokyo Bay our tugboats are immediately available for dispatch upon request of ship operators
and agents or the Japanese Coast Guard. Over the years we have amassed a number of numerous
successful emergency rescues.

Disaster prevention
Watch boat
We also safeguard Tokyo Bay in a variety of ways against any disasters
and pollution. Our fleet of tugboats has powerful fire extinguishing andoil-spill cleanup equipment available for use in thereby preventing theoccurrence or spread of disasters at sea by recovering oil spills andextinguishing fires. We also safeguard vessels carrying hazardous materials
while they unload their cargoes at berths.
Disaster prevention depot
On shore we have been designated by the Japan Maritime Disaster

Prevention Center as its Yokosuka Base, with our branches in Yokosuka
acting as the central depot for oil spill cleanup materials and an oil fence
barge.
We have also been commissioned to maintain oil dispersants and sprayequipment at Yokohama by the Center. Furthermore, we have beencommissioned by the Daikoku Kanagawa Joint Disaster Prevention Centerto conduct marine services throughout the Tokyo/Yokohama seaside area.
Oil-fence deployment vessels stationed at Yokohama Port are always oncall and ready to counteract any spills.

Amagi-maru in an emergency rescue

Oil fence barge

Shinano-maru discharging water during a disaster prevention drill

Tokyo Kisen
Tugboats
Tugboat technology

Our state-of-the-art, high-performance tugboats support
safe towage services.

Our tugboats are deployed in the Yokohama, Kawasaki, Chiba, andYokosuka areas. Our fleet consists of two types of tugboats: harbortugs, mainly for harbor towage, and escort tugs, mainly for escort tug
services. Both types are equipped with Z-pellers that ensure highmaneuverability and a strong bollard pull. All the tugboats in our fleet
also feature not only fire-extinguishing equipment but also
state-of-the-art navigation instruments and equipment such as AIS(Automatic Identification System), current indicators, daylight radar
units with built-in satellite compasses, collision prevention systems,
and computer-controlled warning devices. These all enable the positionof ships to be identified in any direction, and the movement of vessels
to be understood, operational performance improved, and thetugboats’ position to be recognized on shore, thus enhancing evenhigher the level of maritime safety performance.
We constantly develop and build new tugboats of the most suitablestructure for their various operational usages. With harbor tugs weare upgrading the horsepower of the fleet by constructing more andmore harbor tugboats that feature over 4,000 horsepower engines inthereby providing evermore safer and efficient services to vessels,
which have recently have started to increase in size.
With our escort tug service we have introduced ultra-high speed tugboats
that can travel at more than 16 knots through having a ‘Bulbos bow’ structure
which was designed in water tank experiments in a joint development with ashipyard, and 4,400 horsepower tugboats that have demonstrated theircapabilities in not only escort tug services but also ship assist operations forlarge vessels carrying hazardous materials or in emergency rescues.
To reduce their environmental footprint Tokyo Kisen has taken measures that
include vessel design changes and better maintenance in thus continuously
increasing fuel-efficiency. We are currently developing even more environmentallyfriendly tugboats in thereby reducing the emission of hazardous materials.

FLEET LIST (2019.02)
Tokyo Kisen Co., Ltd.
Name Of Tug Boat

G/T

Horse Power
(PS)

Speed
(knot)

Bollard Pull
(ton)

Built

Escort License

AMAGI MARUASAHI MARUOHGI MARU
GINGA
AWAJI MARUKASHIMA MARUTENRYU MARUTAMA MARUAKASHI MARU

263
263
263
276
227
227
228
191
179

4,400
4,400
4,400
Hybrid 4,400
4,400
4,400
4,000
3,600
3,600

15.10
15.20
14.90
14.80
14.80
14.80
14.80
14.20
14.20

57.0
57.0
57.0
57.0
57.0
57.0
55.0
48.0
48.0

2018.05
2016.122015.05
2013.09
2009.10
2009.072006.072018.112007.08

○
○
○
○
○
○
○
○
○

Pump
(l/min)
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000

URAGA MARU
NAGATO MARUSURUGA MARUAOBA MARUSAGAMI MARU
KANTO MARUNOSHIRO MARU
ARIMA MARUSHINANO MARU
ARASAKI MARUSHONAN MARU

199
197
213
214
198
193
185
198
178
177
162

4,400
4,400
4,400
4,400
4,400
4,400
3,600
3,600
3,600
3,600
3,600

15.50
15.50
15.50
15.50
16.00
16.00
15.50
15.50
15.50
15.50
15.50

57.0
57.0
57.0
57.0
57.0
57.0
48.0
48.0
48.0
48.0
48.0

2017.112014.012012.112012.04
2010.112009.012017.05
2015.10
2008.112008.09
2007.02

○
○
○
○
○
○
○
○
○
○
○

6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000

ATAGO MARU
KATORI MARUTOKACHI MARUTONE MARU

259
228
226
228

4,400
4,400
4,000
3,600

14.90
14.80
14.80
14.20

57.0
57.0
55.0
48.0

2016.04
2010.072008.022014.09○○○○

ISE MARU

239

4,000

14.80

55.0

2003.09○

ARIAKE MARU
MUSASHIASAHITOKYO MARU
OHI

262
232
232
241
241

4,400
4,000
4,000
3,600
3,600

14.90
14.70
14.70
14.60
14.60

59.0
56.0
55.5
52.0
52.0

Toko Service Co., Ltd.
2018.072015.022007.11
2002.04
2001.03-

Fire-fighting
Dry Chemical
(kg)
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000

Propulsion

Base Port

Main Task

Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller

Yokohama
Yokohama
Yokohama
Yokohama
Yokohama
Yokohama
Yokohama
Yokohama
Yokohama

HarborHarborHarborHarborHarborHarborHarborHarborHarbor

2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000

Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller

Yokosuka
Yokosuka
Yokosuka
Yokosuka
Yokosuka
Yokosuka
Yokosuka
Yokosuka
Yokosuka
Yokosuka
Yokosuka

Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor
Escort,Harbor

6,000
6,000
6,000
6,000

2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000

Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller

Chiba
Chiba
Chiba
Chiba

HarborHarborHarborHarbor

6,000

2,000

Z-Peller

Sodegaura

Watch,Harbor

3,000
3,000
-

-

Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller
Z-Peller

Tokyo
Tokyo
Tokyo
Tokyo
Tokyo

HarborHarborHarborHarborHarbor

Service quality andsustainability

ISO9001 :Tugboat Service at The Coast, Pilot Boat Service at Tokyo Bay,
Design and Development of Tugboat Service.
ISO14001 :Tugboat Service at The Coast,
Crew Transfer Vessel Service for Offshore Wind Farms.

Tokyo Kisen pursues safer and better quality towage services
while reducing the environmental load.

Safety and service quality
Tokyo Kisen has adopted a quality management system that ensuressafe, swift, efficient, precise, and careful towage services. Our quality
management system involves anintegration of the tugboat crews withshore staff and the aim of improving theservices we make available to clientseven more, while also incorporating
education for use in systematically
improving the techniques of the crews.
We have acquired ISO9001 certificate
and intend to constantly improve ourservices.

Environment
In order to minimize the burden on the marine and global environment
as a result of our business activities and to meet our clients’ needs forGreen Procurement, Tokyo Kisen is implementing an environmental
management system and has acquired ISO14001. Our environment
policies include energy conservation, reduced emissions of hazardous
substances, the recycling of waste, and the development andintroduction of eco tugs. In September 2013, we launched Ginga, adiesel-diesel electric hybrid harbor tugboat (non-battery type) at theport of Yokohama and Kawasaki.

Hybrid tugboat GINGAThe Network of Tokyo Kisen
Tokyo Kisen has been expanding its towage service network
both in Japan and abroad.
International businesses
Tokyo Kisen runs the South China Towing Company, which was established in 1987 as a joint venture towage company between Singapore’ s PSA
Marine, Mitsui O.S.K Lines, Ltd., and Tokyo Kisen in Hong Kong, one of the world’ s largest container ship ports. The company has established the positionin the Hong Kong harbor tug market of being the second-largest towage company in the region. The company in turn runs the Beibu Gulf Towing(Fangchenggang) Company in mainland China as a joint venture towage company with the local governmental port company at Fangchenggang in the
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, located at the entrance to inland China, and close to the border between China and Vietnam, thus meeting
significantly increasing demand for towage services within the rapidly developing port.
Fuji Kaiji Co., Ltd., another company we have invested in, has been brokering and exporting marine equipment and small vessels, including tugboats,since first being founded in 1969. The company has access to a wide network of towage companies throughout both Japan and abroad, and enjoys an
extremely good reputable with its clientele.

Network of towage companies
Toko Service Co., Ltd., a group company, provides shipping agent services, marine
disaster-prevention, and water taxis in addition to harbor towage services. Pacific Marine
Services Co., Ltd., in which we have invested, offers in association with us a watch boat
service through its high speed boats, a service that also constitutes part of our service
network coverage in Tokyo Bay.
Furthermore, Bosai Tokushu Eisen Co., Ltd. has a watch boat service available around
Chiba’ s sea-berths and hazardous-materials berths.
We also own other joint venture towage companies based in ports throughout Japan, andhave developed business ties with them through providing support and capital investment
when they are incorporated.

Location of Head office

BEIBU GULF TOWING(FANGCHENGGANG) Co., LTD.
Fangchenggang

KITANIHONTUG SERVICE CO., LTD.

Hong Kong

SOUTH CHINATOWING CO., LTD.

TOKYO KISEN CO., LTD.

NIHON
TUG-BOAT CO., LTD.

MIYAGI
MARINE SERVICE CO., LTD.

FUKUSHIMA KISEN CO,. LTD.
TOKO SERVICE CO,. LTD.
BOSAI TOKUSHU
EISEN CO,. LTD.
PACIFIC MARINESERVICES CO,. LTD.

Crew Transfer
Vessel Services

Tokyo Kisen is Japan’s pioneering operatorof crew transfer vessels for offshore wind farms.

Crew transfer vessels (CTVs) alternatively known as wind farm support
vessels (WFSVs); which are transfer vessels designed and built for the
specific purpose of safely transporting and transferring operation andmaintenance (O&M) technicians to and from offshore wind farm facilities
under rough metocean conditions. CTVs are indispensable for efficient andflexible O&M activities of offshore wind farms.
As Japan’s pioneering operator of CTVs, Tokyo Kisen have been operating
JCAT ONE, Japan’s first-ever CTV, since December 2013 at the Fukushima
Floating Offshore Wind Farm Demonstration Project.
Tokyo Kisen developed PORTCAT ONE, a smaller class of CTV that issuitable for inside the port or near-shore wind farms being planned in many

places throughout Japan.
From January 2016 to January 2017, Tokyo Kisen operated PORTCAT ONE
for a Wind Power Generation System project off the Pacific coast of Choshi.
The vessel has a record of operation in the Fukushima floating offshore wind
farm. Since October 2018, it has been used in the Next Generation Floating
Offshore Wind Power demonstration project in Kitakyushu.
Tokyo Kisen has gained knowledge in such areas as the CTV design, vessel
motions, ship maneuvering and O&M operations of CTVs. It is our intention tocontinuously conduct R&D in collaboration with experts globally and contributeto safe and efficient O&M and construction of offshore wind farms throughout
Japan. For this purpose, we will aim to establish locally rooted operations.

Marine Businesses ofGroup Companies

Tokyo Kisen’ s group companies provide a diverse range ofother marine businesses.

Marine logistic support
The Port Service Corporation provides ‘Business to Business’ logisticalsupport to maritime community customers through operating water taxis
24 hours every day of the year, thus connecting ports and harbors
throughout Tokyo Bay, while also providing mooring and watch boat
services.

Passenger ships
The Port Service Corporation also runs the sightseeing boats ‘Marine
Rouge’ and ‘Marine Shuttle,’ and the ‘Sea Bass’ water taxi within the
Port of Yokohama for the convenience and pleasure of both tourists
and local residents. The Tokyowan Ferry Co., Ltd. provides a regularcar ferry service between Kurihama in Kanagawa Prefecture andKanaya in Chiba Prefecture. The ferry service connects the Keihin
district and Southern Peninsula and is for use by the large number ofbusiness commuters and tourists in the region.

History of Tokyo Kisen
M a y 1947

Company founded with a capital of ¥150,000, registered head office in
Suginami-ku, Tokyo.

M a r . 1949

Commenced tugboat operations at Port of Yokohama.

F e b . 1956

Capital-participation with the harbor traffic boat service firm, Toko TsusenCo., Ltd. at Tokyo Port (present Toko Service Co., Ltd.)D e c . 1956

Commenced tugboat operations in Chiba Port.

J u n . 1957

Jointly established the Port Service Corporation at Yokohama Port andtransferred harbor traffic boat business to the company. .

J u n . 1957

Jointly established Yokohama Eisen Co., Ltd. (present Yokohama
Kawasaki Tug-Boat Co., Ltd.) at Yokohama Port and outsourced parts ofthe towage operation in the Port of Yokohama.

D e c . 1959

Commenced tugboat operations in Yokosuka Port.

S e p . 1962

Stock listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

D e c . 1963

Passenger ship business transferred to Tokyo Wan Ferry Co., Ltd., andjoined in on capital participation.

J u n . 1964

Commenced tugboat operations at Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding
Co., Ltd. in Chiba.

D e c . 1965

Jointly established Tohoku Eisen Co., Ltd. at Iwaki, Fukushima.
(Management integrated with another company in the same business inMarch 1978, and at present Fukushima Kisen Co., Ltd.)N o v . 1967

Jointly established Nishi Nihon Tug Service Co., Ltd. (present Nihon
Tug-Boat Co., Ltd.)D e c . 1968

Jointly established Sendai Wan Port Service Co., Ltd. at Shiogama,
Miyagi. (Management integrated with other companies in the samebusiness in July 1977, and at present Miyagi Marine Service Co., Ltd.)N o v . 1969

Japan’s first LNG vessel “Polar Alaska” called at Negishi.

D e c . 1969

Jointly established Fuji Kaiji Co., Ltd., ship exporter and broker.

D e c . 1969

Commenced operation of pilot boats at the entrance of the Tokyo Bay.

J a n . 1971

Jointly established Chiba Tokushu Eisen Co., Ltd. (present Bosai
Tokushu Eisen Co., Ltd.)F e b . 1972

First Z-peller tugboat "Akashi Maru" constructed.

A p r . 1972

Jointly established Kita Nihon Tug Service Co., Ltd. at Tomakomai Port,
Hokkaido.

J u n . 1972

Established Uraga Marine Service Co., Ltd., which was entrusted withthe joint dispatching of escort tugboats along the Uraga Channel andYokosuka bay pilots.

Jul.

1973

Maritime Traffic Safety Act implemented.

J a n . 1975

Entrusted with operation of the Marine Disaster Prevention Center at its
Yokosuka Base.

N o v . 1975

Head office moved to the Industry & Trade Center Building,Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama.

J a n . 1984

Commenced operation at the LNG berth of Higashi-Ohgishima Thermal
Power Station, Tokyo Electric Power Company.

D e c . 1986

Emergency dispatch for volcanic eruption at Mt. Mihara on Izu-OshimaIsland.

M a r . 1987

Jointly established South China Towing Company in Hong Kong fortugboat operations.

J a n . 2004

South China Towing Company established the joint venture company
Beibu Gulf Towing (Fangchenggang) Company at Fangcheng Port inGuangxi province in China and commenced operations.

S e p . 2013

Ginga, a diesel-diesel electric hybrid harbor tugboat (non-battery type),
launched at the port of Yokohama and Kawasaki.

D e c . 2013

Commenced operation of JCAT ONE, Japan's first crew transfer vesselfor offshore wind farm commenced for the Fukushima Floating Offshore
Wind Farm Demonstration Project.

D e c . 2015

Commenced operation of PORTCAT ONE, the first Japan-built crewtransfer vessel for Wind Power Generation System project off the coastof choshi.

South China Towing Company’s SHENYANG

Tugboats of Beibu Gulf Towing（Fangchenggang）Company

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