New MOL executive team to succeed CEO

Stuart Chirls

Wed, February 11, 2026 astatine 10:24 AM CST 1 min read

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) said that it had appointed a caller enforcement squad to win Takeshi Hashimoto atop the Japan-based water instrumentality carrier.

Jotaro Tamura volition win Hashimoto arsenic president and main executive, effectual April 1, arsenic portion of what MOL presumption a Cooperative Management System, with caller Chief Operating Officer Hisashi Umemura and existent Chief Financial Officer Kazuya Hamazaki.

Hashimoto had served arsenic president and CEO since 2021, and led implementation of the multi-phase Blue Action 2035 absorption plan. He volition present service arsenic president of the company’s committee of directors.

MOL is portion of associated task Ocean Network Express (with NYK and K Line.

“Having successfully navigated Phase 1 (to FY 2025) and established a wide way for large-scale strategical investments, I judge present is the cleanable clip to modulation to a caller enactment squad for Phase 2 (FY 2026–2030),” Hashimoto said successful a LinkedIn post.

Tamura had worked arsenic elder managing enforcement serviceman successful planetary instrumentality and liner businesses successful Singapore and London. Umemura antecedently was elder managing enforcement serviceman successful the vigor sector.

“Jotaro has earned heavy spot some wrong the institution and crossed the industry,” said Hashimoto. “I americium assured that his enactment volition beryllium instrumental successful enhancing our quality superior and organizational capabilities – the precise halfway of our group’s maturation – and driving the adjacent signifier of our transformation.”

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