Representative shipping company in Japan. Offers scheduled, unscheduled and tanker services. Participates in airfreight and passenger ship businesses.
Scheduled shipping has about half of sales.
Core member of Mitsubishi Group. While about half of operating revenues derive from regular liner services, tramp lines and oil tankers yield a well-balanced revenue structure for Mitsui, one of the world's leading international intermodal transportation companies. To counter a strong yen and maintain global competitiveness, the company is aggressively expanding overseas operations. Mitsui formed an international regular liner consortium with U.S.-based APL and other companies. Major firm in tankers and unscheduled shipping, tonnage in both is Japan's largest.