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 and Airport Autonomous Vehicles 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 expanding the “value up” capabilities 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 dealer business, airport ground handling business, and autonomous airport vehicle business. In the business jet sector, Marubeni is making comprehensive efforts to drive the industry as a leading company, such as providing a business jet operation and management service by JAL Business Aviation jointly with Japan Airlines, establishing the new business jet maintenance service company “JAMS” jointly with ShinMaywa Industries, in addition to the Gulfstream dealership business.

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

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

Marubeni has contributed to the safety of Japan through its sales agency business for aircrafts, helicopters, various types of defense equipment, engines, 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 has also started to work on the commercialization of air mobility, which are expected to be a mode of transportation in the future.

An Antarctic transport assistance helicopter (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, in addition to trading and financing businesses such as the trading of newly built and second-hand ships, ship asset management, 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.

OLYMPUS: a new crude oil tanker brokered for Greece’s Samos Steamship (301,000 DWT)
Federal Ibuki: a bulk carrier co-owned with overseas owners (63,000 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 an opportunity to create new businesses. This division is proactively developing and creating new business areas that provide solutions to problems. Some of our projects include the Panamax-type bulker shipping pool jointly established and promoted with Norwegian shipping company, Torvald Klaveness; the wind propulsion system installation project in collaboration with bound4blue, Spain; the MEGURI2040 autonomous ship project administrated by the Nippon Foundation; and the development of the situational awareness platform for vessels with Orca AI through a partnership agreement. Additionally, we are also taking on the challenge of new businesses in the industry that utilize new technologies. One example of this is the launch of a capital and business alliance with MarCoPay, a Philippine company that operates a digital platform for ship crews.

Smartphone app MarCoPay
Image of bound4blue’s wind propulsion system on a Panamax bulk carrier