■Corporate
History ■ |
| 1988
Mar. |
Orient
Marine Co.,Ltd was estabished on 29th March,1988 by way of
separating the then called ''Ship Operation Business Dept''
within Ship and Marine Project Division of Mitsui & Co.,Ltd
to become an independent entity as an shipowning, managing
and chartering arm of Mitsui.
The company was established by
7-8 people and an office opened in Kanda-Ogawacho; the company’s
first president was Hirofumi Munakata. |
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| 1989
Apr. |
Relocated
to Kanda-Jimbocho.
Concurrently, the Ship Machinery and Component
Group of the Ship and Marine Project Division of Mitsui & Co.,
Ltd. was spun off and merged with Orient Marine. |
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| 1991
Oct. |
Second
Hand Sales and Purchase Group of the Ship and Marine Project
Division of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. was spun off and merged
with Orient Marine.
At this point, Orient Marine had 28 employees. |
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| 1992
Apr. |
The
Ship Machinery and Component Group was spun off from Orient Marine,
and Toyo Ship Machinery Co., Ltd. founded as a fellow subsidiary.
Following this, Orient Marine’s business operations have focused
on its four functional pillars: supervison of new building vessels
and consulting, ship management, chartering and broking of owned
and client vessels, second hand vessels' sales and purchase broking. |
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| 2001
Nov. |
An
Orient Marine office was established in Amsterdam and began
offering chartering operations and post fixture accounting
services to European shipping firms. |
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| 2003
Nov. |
Relocated
to the Hibiya Dai Bldg., Uchisaiwacho, Chiyoda-ku |
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| 2005
May |
An
Orient Marine office was established in Singapore as a branch
of the Ship Management Department; it currently provides ship
management services for some 10 bulk carriers and tankers. |
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| 2006
Dec. |
An Orient Marine
office was established in Hamburg thus reinforcing our provision
of shipping-related services to European shipping firms. |
