2024/11/05 MOL (Asia Oceania) Invests in Joint Development/Investment 'Logistics Infrastructure' Projects in Southeast Asia Accelerating Business Development Centered on State[...]

November 05, 2024

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that MOL (Asia Oceania) Pte. Ltd. (Managing Director: Jotaro Tamura; Head Office: Singapore), MOL's regional headquarters for Southeast Asia and Oceania, is taking part in a joint project to develop and invest in several "logistics infrastructure" ^{(Note 1)} projects centered on multi-tenant advanced automated warehouses in the Southeast Asia region. MOL (Asia Oceania) is teaming up with CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI; Head Office: Singapore), the real estate investment management arm of the CapitaLand Group, one of Asia's largest diversified real estate groups, to invest in the projects through its CapitaLand SEA Logistics Fund (CSLF).

Together with CLI and the partners of CSLF - Pruksa Holding Public Company Limited, a leading real estate developer in Thailand and Ally Logistic Property Co., Ltd. (ALP), a warehouse developer in Taiwan, MOL (Asia Oceania) will develop and invest in "logistics infrastructure" projects targeting Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. These projects include high value-added logistics warehouses, centered on the "OMEGA"^{(Note 2)} multi-tenant advanced automated warehouse model developed by ALP.

The first project, OMEGA 1 Bang Na Thailand Warehouse, is already under construction. MOL (Asia Oceania), CLI and the partners, will continue to invest in "logistics infrastructure" to meet market demand in each of their target regions.

CG rendering of OMEGA 1 Bang Na in Thailand

Overview of Omega 1 Bang Na Thailand

Location	Samut Prakan, Bangkok, Thailand (Bang Phil Noi, Bang Bo District, Samut Prakan 10560, Bangkok, Thailand)
Structure	2 ambient warehouses and 1 refrigerated and frozen warehouse
Scale	Total site area: About 200,000 m2 / Capacity with about 169,000 Automated Storage and Retrieval System pallets
Completion date of all warehouses	February 2027 (estimated)

Concurrently with this project, MOL Group company Daibiru Corporation (President & CEO: Takashi Maruyama; Head Office: Kita-ku, Osaka), has also decided to participate in the development of a business park in Chennai, India, through a fund led by CLI ^{(Note 3)}. The MOL Group and CLI will further deepen their cooperative relationship in a wide range of fields across different regions or asset types.

Under the BLUE ACTION 2035 management plan, the MOL Group has pursued business portfolio reforms to enhance stable profit-earning businesses and ensure profitability even during ocean shipping recessions, and these projects are a part of the initiatives to expand the logistics business, which includes the growth of the "logistics infrastructure" business. In line with the management plan's promotion of Regional Strategy to shift to a global business structure, these business investment projects are led by the Regional Organization for Southeast Asia and Oceania.

(Note 1) This is to specialize in owning logistics facilities such as warehouses which we lease to cargo owners and forwarders. This is distinct from our core logistics business, which is forwarding services that handle sea and air freight.

(Note 2) OMEGA: Designed by ALP, this is a large-scale automated warehouse model that centralizes warehouse systems. The warehouse is divided into a multi-story ramp-type handling area (truck lanes leading to the upper floors are provided for loading and unloading cargo on each floor) for warehousing and dispatching, and a completely unmanned area for storage of pallets board-shaped cargo platforms used for transporting and storing goods). This area features a vaulted ceiling structure equipped with automated cargo handling equipment such as electric cranes, automatically controlled racks, and automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The vaulted ceiling is intended to ensure the most effective use of space; multiple customers' cargoes can be handled simultaneously, making it possible to expand and contract storage space in pallet units according to each customer's actual cargo supply and demand.
OMEGA introduction page on the ALP website: Automated Logistics Center in Asia | OMEGA ALP

(Note 3) Please refer to the Daibiru Corporation press release below.
Participation in "International Tech Park Chennai, Radial Road" Business Park Project in Chennai, India

MOL Group 5 Sustainability Issues
MOL Group identifies "Sustainability Issues" (Materiality) as our key issues for sustainable growth with society through realization of the Group Vision.
We anticipate this initiative to contribute especially to the realization of "Safety & Value -Provide added value through safe transportation and our social infrastructure business-".

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