"K" Line

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” Line) and shipbuilding companies have reached agreements to build four next generation car carrier vessels.

Participating shipbuilders are Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co. Ltd and Japan Marine United Corporation, each company to build two vessels, respectively.

“We have spent considerable length of time studying and investigating the most suitable next generation car carrier with shipyards. We have appointed two shipyards and are adopting state of the art design in terms of top notch fuel efficiency and flexibility on cargo handling that will be far better than our existing fleet”, says Yoshiyuki Aoki, Executive Managing Officer, Car Carrier Sector. “These vessels will be the widest beam ever built, around 37-38 meters with 7,500-unit capacity. Length of the vessel is kept at 200 meters, considering ability to call at any port.”

“37-38 meter beam has come as a result of a series of simulation tests, exploring both better stability of the vessel and better fuel efficiency at the same time. Thanks to full support from the Shipyard, we are confident that we will have success in optimizing those two factors. These new vessels will be equipped with “CAUL” to mitigate wind pressure for optimum fuel consumption. Another technical point being addressed with these new ships is cargo loading equipment inside of the cargo hold and loading ramp as well in order to be best suited for not only passenger cars but also other RORO cargoes.”

“These four ships will replace existing aged tonnage. It is our estimation that the car transport market and RORO cargo market will steadily grow, so we will continue to develop our fleet to deliver value added efficiency and capability of handling an even wider variety of cargo mix to assure our services successfully meet the needs of our valued customers,” Aoki added.

Delivery of this quartet of new ships will take place in 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

For further information please contact:

Toru Otoda

Group Manager, Car Carrier Planning & Development Group

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.  Tel: +81-3-3595-5471

Takamasa Soejima

Manager of Planning & Co-operation Team, Car Carrier Planning & Development Group

August 8, 2013

“K” Line Zhenhua Logistics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter KLZH-Shanghai), a joint venture between “K” Line and a Hong Kong company, holds opening ceremony for new warehouse which was constructed in Logistics Park of Shanghai Lingang New Town and starts operation on August 8, 2013. The Logistics Park is an economic development zone which has been ratified by State Control of the PRC. This area which expects continuous future development is located on Shanghai City side of the bridge connecting Shanghai City and Yanshang deep-water port, now ranked as one of the largest trading ports in the world.

This new modern facility is a 2-story warehouse having 43,890 square meters of total floor space with first phase constructed on about 140,000 square meters land area. KLZH-Shanghai deals with a wide variety of cargo such as daily necessities, apparel, electronic parts and automobile parts and provides excellent service utilizing a most-advanced inventory system. It can be used for CFS warehouse for export cargo, devanning and interim storage warehouse for import cargo, also as distributive processing warehouse for domestic cargo with vanning and devanning operations between 1^st floor and 2^nd floor provided speedily by using rail crane. KLZH-Shanghai can examine lease of the warehouse space upon request. It is provided with sprinkler system as a disaster prevention measure and a monitoring system by CCTV and security personnel 24 hours daily as anti-crime measures.

The “K” Line Group provides tailor-made warehouse services to meet a variety of customer needs especially targeted for export and import cargo in Shanghai port where an increase in future transaction volume is being expected.

The name of warehouse: “K” Line Zhenhua Logistics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Lingang Warehouse (named as Yanshan International Logictics Center)

Address: 668 Qiuxian Road, Logistics Park, Lingang New Town, Pudong District,

Shanghai, PRC

Contact information: Tel: +86-21-6327-2200, Fax: +86-21-3330-2006

Total floor space: 43,890 square meters

For further information, please contact

Goichi Tsuruta

General Manager, Business Promotion Group

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. Tokyo

TEL: +81-3-3595-5272  FAX: +81-3-3595-5175

August 6, 2013

“K” Line (India) Private Limited (hereinafter KLIN), “K” Line’s subsidiary company in India, has started marine management services (vessel inspections, port captaincy, port and terminal investigations, recruitment of marine professionals) in the city of Mumbai, India.

KLIN is steadily expanding operations in this region while experiencing a considerable increase in vessels in port, including not just containerships but also car carriers and bulk carriers. KLIN has operated and managed over 20 vessels in Mumbai. The Indian subsidiary of “K” Line Ship Management Co., Ltd., “K” Line’s subsidiary company for ship management, operates a well-equipped facility in Mumbai for manning vessels and providing marine technical training. Moreover with KLIN’s joint venture partner J. M. Baxi Group having employed top-class Indian seafarers for many years, “K” Line has accumulated considerable in-depth know-how. Leveraging these human resources and the experience within KLIN’s group, KLIN will now have four ship Captains and one Chief Engineer working full-time to deliver these new additional marine management services.

With India continuing to experience remarkable growth, and with expected future expansion of both Middle Eastern and African markets, being in a position to deliver such a full range of marine management services from India is geographically advantageous. The first introduction of these services began at the beginning of July when we carried out vessel inspection for a Supramax bulk carrier visiting port on India’s east coast.

KLIN is dedicated to providing the high quality services of the “K” Line brand in all its operations in India; not only to our own group’s vessels, but to our many business partners as well.

For further information, please contact

Goichi Tsuruta

General Manager, Business Promotion Group

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. Tokyo

TEL: +81-3-3595-5272  FAX: +81-3-3595-5175

July 31^st, 2013 

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. is delighted to announce the foundation of a new subsidiary company, “K” LINE RORO SERVICES LTD., effective October 1, 2013. The business outline of the new company is Sales and Marketing of so-called RORO cargo, including construction machinery, agricultural machinery and static cargo, as well as used automobiles and used construction machinery.

RORO cargo team, Car Carrier Business Group of Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. has been handling this role previously, which will be wholly shifted to the new company. The new company will expand its customer base of such cargo and will further enhance sales activities to customers dealing with such cargo.

We recently see more and more diversification of cargo mix being loaded, or susceptible for loading, into our car carriers. The new company, composed of a group of specialists in the handling of this above-designated cargo, will promote its activities through communication with present and potential customers, analyzing their needs

and offering reasonable and personalized solutions, and will also provide them with reliable, well-established, service utilizing the extensive fleet of car carriers operated worldwide by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.

Outline of the new company:

Name  :  “K”LINE RORO SERVICES LTD.

Foundation  :  October 1, 2013

Offices  :  Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima

Business  :  Sales and marketing of RORO cargo and used cars and equipment.     Marine technical support for RORO cargo.

July 31^st, 2013

“K” Line (India) Private Limited (hereinafter KLIN), “K” Line’s subsidiary company in India, has started Milk Run of automobile parts in the suburbs of Delhi, India for DENSO India Limited.

“Milk Run” refers to a logistics service for making a circuit of several automobile parts manufacturers at a set time, collecting products aiming for “just-in-time” delivery to customers. Milk Run is the ideal logistics method to perform consecutive circulation of returnable boxes designated by customer.

Until now auto parts manufacturers delivered their products individually, whereby using Milk Run method they can improve their efficiency in collecting products in small lots from several manufacturers using just one truck, and in this way DENSO India Limited can drastically reduce traffic within the factory. Milk Run also has the advantage of being an eco-friendly logistics service that reduces the overall operational process, traffic jams around factory and carbon-dioxide emissions.

KLIN is introducing Milk Run service around Delhi for DENSO India Limited from July 2013 by utilizing 6 trucks. A “K” Line subsidiary company in Thailand has already been providing Milk Run service to automakers and auto parts manufacturers for more than 10 years, currently utilizing about 300 trucks. The “K” Line group has accumulated extensive knowhow regarding logistics that it is anxious to share by providing comprehensive logistics services to meet customer needs that utilize strong local ties.

31^st July 2013

“K” Line announce Financial Highlights for 1st Quarter of F2013

On behalf of our client Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd, (“K” Line) we are pleased to send you notification of their Financial Highlights for the 1^st quarter of F2013.

English version

• Financial Highlights for 1^st Quarter of F2013   –  http://bit.ly/15v4H7l

These are also available to download from their website : http://www.kline.co.jp/en/

July 4, 2013

“K” Line is pleased to announce the rotation change of North East Asia Australia service (ESACO), together with partners Mitsui O.S.K. Line, NYK, Orient Overseas Container Line (Hong Kong) and Evergreen Marine Corp. (Taiwan).

This rotation change will not only improve the schedule integrity, but also provides a direct linkage from Qingdao to Australia and shorten the transit time from Shanghai and Ningbo to Australia. The first vessel of the new rotation will be MV OOCL Nagoya V.042 calling Yokohama on Aug 4. Our present ESACO-B service remains unchanged.

ESACO’s new rotation

Yokohama – Osaka – Pusan – Qingdao – Shanghai – Ningbo – Melbourne – Sydney – Brisbane – Yokohama

ESACO-B’s present rotation

Ningbo – Shanghai – Xiamen – Shekou – Hong Kong – Sydney – Melbourne – Brisbane – Ningbo

We will continue to make every effort to further strengthen our service network.

For further information, please contact:

Keijiro Kurisaki

Europe, Australia and Africa Team, Containerships Business Management Group

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.

Tel: +81-3-3595-5675　Fax: +81-3-3595-5288

The Long Beach Board Port Authority announced top ocean carriers in compliance with its voluntary ship speed reduction program in designated coastal zone for the purpose of reducing exhaust gas from their vessels as “Green Flag” commendation ocean carriers in 2012.

On 30 May 2013, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” Line) received the prestigious Green Flag award from the Port Authority based on its total of 248 annual port callings meeting 99.2% compliance rate within 20 nautical miles from the port and 98% compliance rate within 40 nautical miles during 2012. Reducing fuel-oil consumption rate helps decrease CO2 emissions.

The Port Authority is asking calling vessels to comply with the speed limit of 12 knots within 20 miles (about 37 kilometers) from the port in order to reduce emissions of exhaust gas, with the same speed limit within 40 miles (about 74 kilometers) from the port. The Green Flag is awarded to shipping lines that have achieved high rates of compliance with this program and had a large number of ships call at the port. “K” Line actively participates in this program, achieving an extremely high rate every year. In this year, we were awarded the “Green Flag” from the port authority for eighth consecutive year.

The “K” Line Group is making every possible effort to successfully implement its own environmental program, as well as cooperate with any other environmental preservation objectives being introduced by other parties, and will continue to actively contribute to protection of the global environment.

“K” Line (India) Private Limited (hereinafter KLIN), “K” Line’s subsidiary company in India, is further expanding its services in India by entering into coastal shipping operations.

KLIN commenced its coastal transportation in India with the movement of iron ore cargo, having shipped about 55,000 Metric Tons of iron ore from the East coast to Mumbai on the West coast of India utilizing a one-spot chartered vessel.

This transportation was introduced to meet an increase in demand for coastal transportation of bulk cargo such as iron ore and coal. We plan to further expand into the coastal transportation business in other areas of Asia.

In India, satisfactory progress has been made in the transportation of motorcycles by Triple Decker Motorcycle Carriers and land transportation of steel materials. These services are in line with our desire to provide comprehensive logistics services to meet customer needs that utilize strong local ties.