Reportage: Japanese Shipowners, Part 47　第47回ルポルタージュ日本船主

Shipowners’ In-house Management and a Reassessment of Shipping Operations

船主のインハウス管理、海運のオペレーション業務の再評価

29 October, central Tokyo.

I arranged to meet a Japanese shipowner who had attended a ship management seminar hosted by a major shipping company in the lobby of a hotel near Shimbashi.

The shipowner began to speak.

“People talk about in-house ship management, but its definition varies from one shipowner to another. In particular, major shipping companies have recently been consolidating their operating subsidiaries. Much of the attention is focused on the integration of commercial divisions, but are there not cases where the essential task of aligning and integrating ship management operations has failed to keep pace?” (A medium-sized shipowner based in Ehime Prefecture)

■What You Can Read in the Full Article (Approximately 3,000 Japanese Characters)

→ The reality behind the label of “in-house management”: a Japanese shipowner reveals how its vessels are actually managed

→ Marine superintendents without seafaring backgrounds: who really maintains control over masters and chief engineers?

→ A former RightShip inspector explains the differences in ship management capabilities between Japanese and Greek shipowners

→ Major shipping groups consolidate their businesses, while ship management integration brings confusion to frontline operations

→ Talent and capital gravitate towards ship investment, as the concerns of those responsible for vessel operations struggle to be heard

(Read the full article in the paid edition, available in both English and Japanese. The Japanese version follows the English article.)

第47回ルポルタージュ日本船主

船主のインハウス管理、海運のオペレーション業務の再評価

　10月29日、東京都心。

　大手海運主催の船舶管理セミナーに出席した日本船主と新橋付近のホテルロビーで待ち合わせた。

　船主が口を開く。

　「インハウスの船舶管理というが、その定義は船主によってまちまちだ。とくに最近は海運大手の事業会社の統合が進んでいる。営業部門の統合ばかりに注目が集まるが、肝心の船舶管理のすり合わせ、融合が追い付いていないケースもあるのではないか」（愛媛県に拠点を置く中堅船主）

■記事本文では以下の内容を読むことができます（記事全文約3,000文字）

→「インハウス管理」の看板と実態、日本船主が明かした自社管理の内情

→海技者不在の海務監督、船長・機関長を誰が本当に掌握しているのか

→元RightShip検査官が語る、日本船主とギリシャ船主の管理能力の差

→海運大手の事業統合、その陰で進む船舶管理体制の融合と現場の混乱

→船舶投資に集まる人材と資金、置き去りにされる運航現場の切実な声

（続きは英語と日本語で書かれた有料版の本文でお読みください。日本語の記事は英文記事に続いて掲載されています）