Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), which has been hit by more than its fair share of accidents over the past decade has appointed a chief safety officer.
The new position will supervise the planning of strategies and conduct measures to ensure the safety and quality of operations of MOL and its entire fleet, and give necessary advice to executive officers responsible for business divisions.
Also announced today amongst a raft of group changes at the Japanese shipping giant MOL will integrate the supervising functions at its shipmanagement arm for tankers, dry bulkers, car carriers, and containerships to establish a new marine technical management division to manage the fleet, with the goal, the company stated in a release today, of establishing MOL as the “world leader in safe operation”.
