On September 1, as part of the "Remember Naka-no-Se" safety promotion campaign,* NYK conducted a response drill based on an assumed scenario that had an NYK-owned LNG carrier collide with a ferry outside Ise Bay. In this drill, NYK worked with the vessel and many external stakeholders to minimize the accident's impact, thus reaffirming the importance of safe operation, which is the mission and the basis of business continuity by the NYK Group.

NYK conducted the drill with the cooperation of external stakeholders, including the Maritime Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the 4th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, and the Japanese Shipowners' Association. In the training, NYK promptly established a crisis management center after receiving an accident notification from the vessel. NYK worked with external stakeholders to rescue people who had fallen from the ferry and ensure the safety of other ships passing in the vicinity. In addition, NYK practiced appropriate information disclosure as the situation progressed and held a mock press conference that featured the same tension expected during an actual accident.

The NYK Group will continue to work together on ship and land to ensure safe operation, which is our top priority.

On March 10, 2023, the NYK Group released its medium-term management plan “Sail Green, Drive Transformations 2026 — A Passion for Planetary Wellbeing. ” The NYK Group is promoting growth strategies with ESG at the core, based on the Group’s mission statement of “Bringing value to life” and a new corporate vision for 2030, which reads, “we go beyond the scope of a comprehensive global logistics enterprise to co-create value required for the future by advancing our core business and growing new ones.”

* Since 1998, NYK has conducted the "Remember Naka-no-Se" safety promotion campaign every year from July 1 for two months to ensure that the lessons learned from the Diamond Grace oil spill on July 2, 1997, remain fresh. This campaign, which was held for the 26th time in 2023, includes the crisis-response drill and visits by many executives and employees to ships to further deepen communication between ship and shore. During this year’s campaign period, 565 NYK Group executives and employees visited 263 vessels.