Mitsui

APRIL 2, 2018 — Samsung Heavy Industries Co's Geoje, South Korea, shipyard last week hosted a naming ceremony for the 174,000 cu.m LNG carrier Marvel Falcon. The vessel is to be chartered by NYK Line to Mitsui & Co. Ltd. under a long-term contract and is the first in a series of new vessels that will be used by Mitsui ...

TOKYO, April 2 (Reuters) - Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co Ltd , Japan's biggest zinc smelter, plans to produce 105,900 tonnes of refined zinc during April-September in the 2018/19 financial year, flat compared with a year ago, it said on Monday. Zinc is used mainly as an anti-corrosive coating while making ...

At the ceremony, the ship was named “Marvel Falcon” by Mr. Tatsuo Yasunaga, president and chief executive officer of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and the ceremonial rope holding the vessel in place was cut by Mr. Yasunaga's wife. From NYK, Hitoshi Nagasawa, Representative Director, Senior Managing Corporate ...

Japan's Mitsui & Co has quietly bolstered its fleet with capesize bulkers and feeder containership newbuildings. Shipbuilding experts said the Japanese trading house has two 180,000-dwt capesizes on order at Singapore-listed Yangzijiang Shipbuilding. They were ordered last year but the deal went ...

TOKYO—Mitsui Chemicals Inc. is setting up a new production facility for its Milastomer-branded thermoplastic olefin elastomer in North America. Construction on the new unit, which will be built at the Sidney, Ohio, facility of Mitsui Chemicals' U.S. subsidiary Advanced Composites, will begin in January and ...

After making a cash takeover offer of $0.95 per share for all AWE issued shares, Mitsui has made its first supplementary bidder's statement since its original bidder's statement was issued on 9 February 2018. In the absence of a competing proposal, Mitsui has announced that it will not extend its offer unless ...

"The Japanese partners expressed interest in taking part in Russia's prospective LNG projects, and Baltic LNG in particular," the ministry said in a statement following deputy energy minister Kirill Molodtsov's meeting with Mitsui's general manager of Russia and Australia gas division, Kazuma Miyazawa, ...

Japanese trading house Mitsui is upping the ante in its efforts to gain control of listed oil and gas producer AWE. Street Talk can reveal Mitsui is preparing to declare its $602 million tilt at AWE "final," as early as Monday, putting pressure on shareholders to back the bid. This will put a key decision in front of ...

The U.S. subsidiary of Japanese corporate giant Mitsui has purchased a stake in New York City, U.S.A.-based Mark Foods. Founded in 2002, Mark Foods focuses on the import and distribution of premium seafood, with around 95 percent of its products being wild-caught. It is one of the leading U.S. ...

Developer EYA has put the final pieces together to fully fund its $185 million Robinson Landing project on the Potomac riverfront in Old Town Alexandria. EYA and JBG Fund IX — a private fund managed by JBG Smith Properties (NYSE: JBGS) — will be joined by Mitsui Fudosan America in the waterfront ...

Mitsui, JBG, and EYA close financing for $185 million Robinson Landing project in Alexandria ... said the joint venture, among affiliates of EYA, JBG Fund IX -- a private fund managed by JBG SMITH Properties -- and Mitsui Fudosan America (MFA), will provide all the capital required to complete the project.

“Mitsui also notes the Waitsia gas project is at an important juncture in its development and believes it is in the best interests of all stakeholders that the offer is completed as soon as possible.” The company said if the offer becomes unconditional it would accelerate payment terms to AWE shareholders.

The “Vladimir Rusanov» was jointly ordered by Mitsui and the China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited, and is the first of three new vessels for MOL and China COSCO Shipping's fleets in the Yamal LNG Project. It is slated to go into service at the end of March 2018, following delivery at the end of ...

Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., and PurThread Technologies, Inc., developer of next generation antimicrobial fibres and yarns, have entered into a distributorship agreement for Mitsui USA to bring PurThread's patented permanent antimicrobial fibres and yarns to textiles and soft goods across Mitsui & Co.'s vast ...

Vancouver apparel company Indochino recently raised a strategic investment from Japan's Mitsui & Co. No financial terms were disclosed. The funds raised and partnership will help the company expand across North America and invest in its global operations and supply chain. Founded in 2007 and led by ...

Mitsui has agreed to acquire JX Nippon Mining & Metals' 3.6% interest in Collahuasi, which takes its total stake in the mine to 11.03% and, according to the firm, would boost its overall annual copper volumes by about 15,000 tonnes to 140,000 tonnes. Mitsui's investments in Chile's copper industry date ...

Mitsui's aggressive investing of late has not been limited to resources. The trader spent about 400 billion yen in the nine months through December -- roughly double what domestic rival Itochu shelled out. In its medium-term management plan begun in fiscal 2017, Mitsui aimed to strengthen its income base ...

Japanese group Mitsui & Co has announced it will not extend the deadline on its $602 million takeover offer for AWE and confirmed its offer price of 95 cents per share is final. Mitsui made its bid for the Waitsia gas field operator in January and has received a unanimous recommendation from AWE's board.

Japanese conglomerate Mitsui has bolstered its interest in $600 million takeover target AWE to 29 per cent. The increase in the stake follows second-biggest shareholder Ellerston Capital accepting Mitsui's 95¢-a-share offer. Mitsui has set an April 6 deadline for shareholders to accept the bid for the Perth ...

Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced a major restructuring that will become effective from April 1. The changes involve the establishment of a Technology Innovation Unit and the creation of a new position: Chief Technical Officer. Last year, MOL announced that has signed an agreement with ...