Our Strengths

Expanding the Value-up Functionality of Aircraft Assets in the Commercial Aircraft Sector

The division will contribute to the growth of the private aviation market by enhancing the value of aircraft assets through the aircraft and engine parts trading business and asset management business, as well as by providing lifecycle services to aircrafts and airlines, including engine development investment, engine maintenance dealership, airport ground handling, autonomous airport vehicles, and AI-powered ground handling optimization. In the business jet sector, Marubeni is making comprehensive efforts to drive the industry as a leading company, such as managing the U.S. Gulfstream Aerospace’s dealership business, offering business jet operation and management service through JAL Business Aviation, a joint venture with Japan Airlines, and establishing a new business jet maintenance service company, “JAMS,” in partnership with ShinMaywa Industries.

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Providing Solutions Demanded by Society in Defense, National Security, Space, and New Business Sectors

Marubeni has contributed to Japan’s national security through our sales agency business for aircraft, helicopters, engines, various defense equipment, composite materials, and satellite sensors. Marubeni is also making new entries into industries such as sales of satellite data, conducting capital and business alliances with companies such as Interstellar Technologies, a Japanese company that develops, manufactures, and offers launch services for small rockets, as well as Phase Four, a U.S.-based company that develops and manufactures thrusters for small satellites, which has a capital and business alliance with D-Orbit, an Italian company that provides launch arrangement and deployment services for small satellites. Marubeni is also working towards the commercialization of air mobility, which are expected to be a mode of transportation in the future.

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Comprehensive Service Provider – Offering Diverse Functionality in the Ship Sector from Merchant Ships to LNG Carriers

Marubeni is engaged in fleet ownership and operation of merchant ships and LNG carriers as well as the bulker pool business and ship operation business through Klaveness, a Norwegian shipping company, in addition to trading and financing businesses such as the trading of newly built and second-hand ships, charter brokerage and the handling of marine equipment.
By providing hands-on, wide-ranging functions, from ownership structuring to ship management and securing operating income, we are aiming to evolve as a comprehensive ship service provider.

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Proactively Taking on Challenges in New Ship Related Businesses by Taking on Environmental Change as an Opportunity

We are taking the environmental changes surrounding the shipping and shipbuilding industries as opportunities to create new businesses. Our initiatives include GHG reduction, safe navigation, improvement of seafarers' living environments, and development of labor-saving and autonomous navigation technologies. Specifically, we are proactively pursuing new business opportunities by engaging in demonstration testing and sales support for a wind propulsion system installation project developed by bound4blue in Spain; joining a partnership alliance with Orca AI, which develops a situational awareness platform for vessels; joining a capital and business alliance with MarCoPay in the Philippines, which develops and operates electronic applications for ship crews; and participating in the autonomous ship project MEGURI2040 administrated by the Nippon Foundation.

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Construction & Mining Equipment Sales and Product Support Business

The Division’s trading business has a particularly long history with regard to its distributorship operations, which have been conducted for decades in the U.K., and Australia. Recently, the Division has also begun expanding its distributorship and product support operations in Asia and Latin America as an attempt to capture infrastructure demand in resource-producing nations and emerging countries.

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From Automotive and Aftermarket Parts Sales to EV Fleet Management and Next Generation Mobility-Related Businesses

This Division develops its business throughout the world, from automotive trading, wholesaling and retailing to aftermarket businesses. While using new, digital technologies to improve upon our existing business models, we are creating new businesses, such as EV fleet management and next generation mobility businesses.

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