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MOL Establishes ‘MOL Auto Carrier Express’ as a Global Brand

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced the establishment of “MOL Auto Carrier Express (MOL ACE)” as global brand in the car carrier service, which is one of its major business fields. MOL will start to use “MOL ACE” beginning July 1, 2015. MOL’s car carrier service network includes offices and agencies in about 140 nations around the world, and the MOL Group operates about 120 car carriers to meet its customers’ global transport needs. These vessels transport other large cargoes such as machinery and trailers used in construction as well as automobiles, buses and trucks. MOL also provides a broad range of related services such as overland transport of completed vehicles, coastal transport, and terminal operations in 6 nations, mainly in rapidly growing Asian markets. MOL launched the world’s first newbuilding hybrid car carrier, the Emerald Ace, in 2012, marking a significant advance in environment-friendliness. And in April of this year, it announced the next-generation of car carriers, the FLEXIE series, which adopt a new deck design. The “MOL ACE” brand recalls MOL’s long history of vessels with “Ace” in the name, reflecting decades of innovation in environmental concern and higher levels of safety and technology. The global brand established today embodies the company’s determination to build on these traditions as it continues to grow in the global market. MOL will market its car carrier services making a full use of its global network under the “MOL ACE” brand, built on the themes of “safety” and “reliability”, and continue to meet ever more diverse customer needs. Source: Mitsui O.S.K. Lines

World’s first hybrid car carrier Emerald Ace completed

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. on June 29, 2012 announced the completion of the hybrid car carrier Emerald Ace, designed to generate zero emissions while berthed, at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; President: Hideaki Omiya), Kobe shipyard. The Emerald Ace was built as world’s first newly built hybrid car carrier, and is equipped with a hybrid electric power supply system that combines a 160kW solar generation system(*) - jointly developed by MHI, Energy Company of Panasonic Group (President: Masato Ito), and MOL - with lithium-ion batteries that can store some 2.2MWh of electricity. Conventional power generation systems use diesel-powered generators to supply onboard electricity while berthed. On the Emerald Ace, electricity is generated by the solar power generation system while the vessel is under way and stored in the lithium-ion batteries. The diesel-powered generator is completely shut down when the ship is in berth, and the batteries provide all the electricity it needs, resulting in zero emissions at the pier. More at http://www.bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=105167