OREANDA-NEWS. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced plans to further expand its group-wide logistics services to meet a range of customer needs.

Customers around the world count on MOL Group logistics services, which draw on group companies' unique functions and capabilities. It has enhanced networks in Japan and overseas. In recent years, particularly in the Mekong region, the group has aggressively developed its networks, and providing a wide variety of competitive service options in Thailand and Vietnam.

Currently the group companies are working in complete solidarity with others under the leadership of MOL by further sharing information, knowledge, technologies, and experience that each company has accumulated. It is driving forward to strengthen collaboration and synergy, focusing on the following three key issues, for example:
* winning more plant project business,
* kaizen (small changes for the better) in trucking and warehousing operations, and
* aggressively expanding business in Southeast Asia.

Through networks spreading all over the world and effective use of each company's distinctive services, some of them have already secured new cargo transport contracts through collaboration. The effects of cost reduction are beginning to pay off as well.

MOL has confidence in the future growth of the logistics business and positions it as a business domain that will yield stable profits. The MOL Group is taking a more proactive stance in increasing investment, expanding investment businesses, and enhancing services, while building upon the advantages of its group companies.