Aerospace & Ship Division | Marubeni Corporation

Transportation & Industrial Machinery, Financial Business GroupAerospace & Ship Division

Major Products and Areas

Aircraft and Engine Parts Trading Business, Asset Management, and Development Investment
Sales Representatives for Commercial Aircraft and Defense Equipment, Space-related Projects, and Air Mobility Field
Business Jet Sales, Operation, and Maintenance Service Business
Airport Ground Handling Business, Airport Autonomous Vehicles Business, and Airport Operation Optimization Business
Sale, Purchase, Chartering, and Ownership of Merchant Vessels
Shipping Pool Business and Ship Fund Business
LNG and Other Liquefied Gas Carriers Business
Autonomous Ship Projects, Wind Propulsion System Installation Projects, Digital Platform Business for Ship Crews, and Situational Awareness Platform for Vessels

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.

Magellan Aviation warehouse
Assaia’s ApronAI system
Airport ground handling by Swissport Japan

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.

A mine sweeping and transport helicopter of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Ministry of Defense (photo source: Maritime Self-Defense Force Homepage)
“ZERO” Satellite Rocket Launching by Interstellar Technologies
Image of eVTOL by U.K.-based Vertical Aerospace

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.

M.T. OLYMPUS: a new crude oil tanker brokered for Greece’s Samos Steamship (301,000 DWT)
M.V. CRIMSON SAPPHIRE: a bulk carrier owned by MMSL PTE. LTD. (40,000 DWT)
LNG RIVER ORASHI: a 146,000 cubic meter LNG carrier jointly owned with BW Gas

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.

Orca AI camera “SeaPod”
Image of bound4blue’s wind propulsion system on a Panamax bulk carrier