Japanese container shipping company
Ocean Network Express Holdings, Ltd.
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Company type
| Joint venture
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Industry
| Maritime transport
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Founded
| 2017
; 7 years ago
(
2017
)
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Headquarters
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Area served
| Worldwide
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Key people
| Jeremy Nixon
[1]
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Owner
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Number of employees
| 14,000
[2]
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Subsidiaries
| Ocean Network Express Japan (Japan)
Ocean Network Express Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
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Website
| one-line
.com
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Ocean Network Express Holdings, Ltd.,
branded as
ONE
, is a Japanese
container
transportation and
shipping
company jointly owned by the Japanese shipping Lines
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
,
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
, and
K Line
. Launched in 2017 as a joint venture, ONE inherited the container shipping operations of its parent companies, corresponding to a combined fleet capacity of about 1.4 million
TEU
.
[3]
History
[
edit
]
ONE was founded in 2016 as a joint venture between
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
(NYK),
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
(MOL), and
K Line
.
[4]
The company was formed as part of a larger process of consolidation that was occurring in the container shipping industry at that time, affected by poor profits and surplus capacity.
[5]
It merged the container shipping divisions of the three companies, forming the sixth-largest container shipping company in the world at that time. NYK controls a 38% stake of the joint venture, while MOL and K Line own 31% each.
[4]
After starting corporate and sales activities in October 2017, the company began trading in April 2018, with headquarters in
Japan
,
[6]
business operation headquarters in
Singapore
and regional headquarters in
United Kingdom
,
United States
,
Hong Kong
, and
Brazil
,
[7]
[8]
[9]
and local offices in 90 countries.
[10]
On 2 April 2018,
ONE Minato
(ordered by
K Line
, and originally named
Minato Bridge
) was launched from
Imabari Shipbuilding
as trial. The vessel has a capacity of 14,000 TEU, and has been re-painted in magenta.
[11]
On 15 May 2018, the first magenta painted vessel was delivered and added into the fleet.
ONE Commitment
(formerly known as
MOL Commitment
, built in 2013), started her maiden voyage at
Singapore
and reached
Yantian International Container Terminals
in
China
. Sailing under
Japanese flag
, the vessel operates on THE Alliance PN2 service calling
Japan
,
China
,
US
and
Canada
with a total capacity of 8,560 TEU.
[12]
On 12 June 2018, the newly built
ONE Stork
was delivered and launched from
Hiroshima
, Kure Shipyard in
Japan
. This vessel was originally intended as
NYK Stork
, as part of the 8
Bird-class container ship
sister ships, ordered and owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and chartered to ONE. The ship has a capacity of 14,000 TEUs and is magenta painted. The first deployment was instructed towards North America East Coast, after calling several loading ports in
China
,
Hong Kong
and
Singapore
.
[13]
On 7 July 2018,
ONE Competence
made fast at the
Port of Oakland
. The vessel was built in 2008 as
MOL Competence
, to carry over 8000 TEUs. She has recently been repainted in
magenta
, following the intended plan to rebrand over 240 vessels in the fleet.
[14]
In August 2018, ONE ordered more than 14,000 refrigerated containers.
[15]
In December 2018, ONE and
PSA International
signed an agreement to form a joint venture at
Pasir Panjang
Terminal in
Singapore
to conduct container operations in the terminal, starting in the first half of 2019.
[16]
On 30 November 2020, the
container ship
ONE Apus
lost an estimated 1816
containers
overboard during severe weather while traveling from
Yantian
in
China
to
Long Beach, California
,
USA
. Among these were 64 containers of dangerous goods. Removing collapsed containers from the deck took 3 months after the ship docked in
Kobe
,
Japan
.
[17]
On 14 April 2021, ONE is added to ISO9001 certification registry of ClassNK.
[18]
On 19 April 2021, ONE has announced the formation of a new Green Strategy Department, that will be involved in environmental sustainability projects, such as the successful trial of bio-fuel to power the
MOL Experience
container ship.
[19]
Color Scheme
[
edit
]
ONE 40ft container.
ONE decided to paint all its newly launched ships and containers in a recognizable and eye-catching
magenta
shade (refrigerated containers have the opposite coloring: white with magenta lettering).
[20]
The magenta colour scheme was inspired by the
cherry blossom
trees, one of the
national symbols of Japan
, where the mother companies are located.
[21]
Other owned ships will also be painted magenta.
[22]
THE Alliance
[
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]
Along with
Hapag-Lloyd
,
HMM Co. Ltd.
, and
Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation
, ONE is a member of THE Alliance. THE Alliance is a group of container shipping companies intended to provide 34 shipping services, directly calling at 81 different ports around the world on a monthly basis.
[23]
Fleet
[
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]
At establishment, the fleet counted 240 container vessels, including 31
container ships
with a capacity of around 14,000 TEU or higher, of which 6 have 20,000 TEU capacity.
As a result of the merger, it also inherited container ship orders from its predecessors, with one ultra-large 20,000
TEU
vessel and twelve 14,000 TEU vessels due to be delivered (the
Millau Bridge-class container ships
).
[24]
A tonnage review was scheduled to happen within 18 months from the operations beginning, in order to be competitive on all services by using the most recent, technological and efficient
ships
available to be built.
[25]
Container ship classes of Ocean Network Express
Ship class
|
Built
|
Capacity (TEU)
|
Ships in class
|
Notes
|
NYK Vega
-class
|
2006?2007
|
9,012
|
4
|
NYK Line
|
Hannover Bridge
-class
|
2006?2009
|
8,212
|
8
|
K Line
|
NYK Oceanus
-class
|
2007?2008
|
8,628?9,040
|
4
|
NYK Line
|
MOL Creation
-class
|
2007?2008, 2013?2014
|
8,110?8,560
|
10
|
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
|
MOL Maestro
-class
|
2010?2011
|
6,724
|
10
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
|
NYK Adonis
-class
|
2010?2011
|
9,592
|
3
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NYK Line
|
MOL Globe
-class
|
2011?2012
|
5,605
|
10
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
|
MOL Bravo
-class
|
2014?2016
|
10,100
|
10
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
|
Millau Bridge
-class
|
2015?2018
|
13,900
|
10
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K Line
|
NYK Bird
-class
|
2016?2019
|
14,000
|
15
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NYK Line
|
MOL Triumph
-class
|
2017?2018
|
20,170?20,182
|
6
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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
|
Zenith Lumos
-class
|
2020?onwards
|
14,952
|
4
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Long-term charter from
Zodiac Maritime
|
ONE Freedom
-class
|
2022-onwards
|
15,200
|
9
|
Long-term charter from
Seaspan
|
ONE Innovation
-class
|
2023?onwards
|
24,000
|
6
|
Long-term charter from
Shoei Kisen Kaisha
[26]
|
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2025?onwards
|
13,700
|
10
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5 to be built by Nihon Shipyard and 5 to be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries
[27]
|
ONE Readiness
-Class
|
2023-onwards
|
7,000
|
10
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Long Term Charter From
Seaspan
|
See also
[
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References
[
edit
]
- ^
"ONE appoints Jeremy Nixon as CEO"
.
splash247.com
. 10 July 2017
. Retrieved
3 July
2023
.
- ^
"Ocean Network Express"
.
about.att.com
. Retrieved
26 March
2019
.
- ^
Chambers, Sam (31 May 2017).
"Japan's big three lines christen new merged container entity Ocean Network Express -"
.
splash247.com
. Retrieved
3 January
2019
.
- ^
a
b
Wackett, Mike (3 October 2017).
"Creation of Ocean Network Express will be a turning point for NYK, says president"
.
The Loadstar
. Retrieved
3 January
2019
.
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Liang, Lee Hong.
"Japan's K Line, MOL, NYK to merge container shipping business"
.
www.seatrade-maritime.com
. Retrieved
8 January
2019
.
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"Organization Structure | ONE"
.
www.one-line.com
. Retrieved
1 April
2021
.
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"Japan's big three reveal Ocean Network Express"
.
TradeWinds
. 1 June 2017.
- ^
Berman, Jeff (1 June 2017).
"NYK, K-Line, MOL team up to form the Ocean Network Express"
.
logisticsmgmt.com
. Retrieved
3 January
2019
.
- ^
"Ocean Network Express: 'Large enough to survive, small enough to care' -"
.
splash247.com
. 17 July 2017
. Retrieved
3 January
2019
.
- ^
"All Offices | ONE"
.
www.one-line.com
. Retrieved
1 April
2021
.
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"ONE launches its first container ship"
.
Marine Sight
. 2 April 2018
. Retrieved
8 July
2019
.
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"ONE's New Livery Debuts at Port of Tacoma"
.
The Maritime Executive
. Retrieved
19 April
2021
.
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"ONE Stork launch"
.
Ship Spotting
. 12 June 2018
. Retrieved
8 July
2019
.
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"Oakland welcomes ONE"
.
Port Technology
. 7 July 2018
. Retrieved
8 July
2019
.
- ^
"One Orders 14,000 Reefers"
.
Maritime Executive
. 20 August 2018
. Retrieved
3 January
2019
.
- ^
"Ocean Express and PSA Joint Venture"
.
IHMA
. 22 December 2018
. Retrieved
3 January
2019
.
- ^
"ONE Apus Containership Returns to Sea After Three Month Recovery"
.
The Maritime Executive
. Retrieved
1 April
2021
.
- ^
"ONE is added to ISO9001 certification registry of ClassNK | Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide"
.
www.hellenicshippingnews.com
. Retrieved
7 May
2021
.
- ^
Berry, Rhys.
"GLOBAL: ONE launches green strategy department"
.
Bunkerspot - Independent Intelligence for the Global Bunker Industry
. Retrieved
19 April
2021
.
- ^
"ONE takes delivery of first new magenta boxship"
.
The Maritime Executive
. 12 June 2018
. Retrieved
21 March
2019
.
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"Cherry blossom colored container ship arrives"
.
SFGate
. 7 July 2018
. Retrieved
21 March
2019
.
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"Port of Oakland eye popper: magenta container ship in town Monday"
.
Port of Oakland
. 5 July 2018
. Retrieved
24 May
2021
.
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"THE Alliance"
.
Joc.com
. Retrieved
3 January
2019
.
- ^
Andersen, Ole (29 November 2017).
"Jeremy Nixon: ONE must find its place among the mega-carriers"
.
ShippingWatch
. Retrieved
3 January
2019
.
- ^
"ONE unveils eco friendly vessel"
.
Port Technology
. Retrieved
12 July
2019
.
- ^
"ONE inks long-term charters for six 24,000 teu containership newbuilds"
.
Seatrade Maritime
. 24 December 2020
. Retrieved
7 April
2021
.
- ^
"ONE orders 10 new container ships"
.
Container News
. 31 May 2022
. Retrieved
3 June
2022
.
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Active
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Ocean Alliance
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THE Alliance
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Others
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