Aerospace & Ship Division | Marubeni Corporation

Transportation & Industrial Machinery, Financial Business GroupAerospace & Ship Division

Major Products and Areas

Aircraft & Engine Parts Trading Business, Asset Management, Development Investment
Sales representatives for commercial aircraft and defense equipment, space-related projects, and the air mobility field
Business Jet Sales Agency and Operation Service Business
Airport ground handling businesses, airport autonomous vehicles business
Sale and purchase, chartering, and ownership of merchant ships
Shipping pool business, ship fund business
LNG and other liquefied gas carriers business
Autonomous ship projects, wind propulsion system installation projects, and digital platform business for ship crews

Our Strengths

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

The division has expanded the “value up” capabilities of aircraft assets through business development in all stages of the aircraft lifecycle such as aircraft and engine parts trading business and maintenance services, asset management business, engine development investment, airport ground handling business, and autonomous airport vehicles. In the business jet sector, Marubeni, as a leading company in the industry, is providing the solutions to expand the business jet service market in Japan, leveraging its long experience as the exclusive representative for Gulfstream Aircraft and the exclusive dealer for HondaJet in Japan. Marubeni is also promoting a charter and ground handling services business jointly with Japan Airlines.

Magellan Aviation warehouse
HondaJet Elite
Airport ground handling work by Swissport Japan

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

Marubeni has gained ground through distribution agent operations for aircrafts, helicopters, various types of defense equipment, engines, composite materials, and satellite sensors. Marubeni is also making new entries into such industries as sales of space monitoring systems and satellite data, conducting a capital and business alliance with such companies as Interstellar Technologies, a Japanese company that develops, manufactures and offers a launching service for small rockets, as well as Phase Four, a U.S.-based company that develops and manufactures thrusters for small satellites, and 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 future means of transportation.

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.

EVER SHINING: a bulk carrier brokered for Taiwan's First Steamship (81,400 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 business. This division is proactively developing and creating new business areas that provide solutions to problems. Some of our projects include a Panamax-type bulker shipping pool jointly established and promoted with Norwegian shipping company, Torvald Klaveness; a wind propulsion system installation project in collaboration with Bound 4 Blue, Spain; and the demonstration test of autonomous passenger boats in Sarushima, Yokosuka City. 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.

Ship that was used for a Proof of Concept of autonomous operation in Sarushima, Yokosuka City
Smartphone app MarCoPay
Image of Bound 4 Blue’s wind propulsion system on a Panamax bulk carrier