Tokyo - Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is consolidating its ship management businesses under a single brand and location, aiming to streamline operations and enhance service quality across all vessel types.

The Tokyo-headquartered shipping giant has renamed its Singapore-based LNG management arm, MOL LNG Ship Management, to MOL Global Ship Management (MOLGSM). The move marks the beginning of an internal integration process that will see MOL’s previously segmented in-house ship management functions—currently split by vessel type—combined under one structure.

MOLGSM will eventually oversee more than 200 ships, including LNG . . .