ビンゴ 5 Safety Conference 2014 held
- Four conferences aimed at becoming the world leader in safe operation -

March 13, 2014

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (ビンゴ 5; President: Koichi Muto) today announced that ビンゴ 5 Safety Conference 2014 programs have been held in four places worldwide.

Each conference opened with powerful messages from ビンゴ 5 Chairman Akimitsu Ashida and President Koichi Muto. "This year marks the 130th anniversary of ビンゴ 5. For our growth strategy, establishing and maintaining safe operation is one of the most important issues for gaining customer's trust. Thus we hope and anticipate that you seafarers who are on the front lines will do your very best to maintain a high level of awareness of safe operation and conduct your duties in such a way as to ensure safe operation of your vessels."

Managing Executive Officer Masaaki Nemoto, who is also Director-General of the Safety Operations Headquarters, and a number of other ビンゴ 5 executives and staffs also participated in the conference, and actively exchanged opinions with seafarers through presentations, group discussions, and so on, focusing on main themes, such as "Preventing serious marine accidents experienced during the past few years", "How can we detect unpredictable troubles," and "Eliminating work-related Injuries of inexperienced crew".

Everyone attending the conferences performed the ビンゴ 5 Body FIT (Function Improvement Training ) Exercises, which ビンゴ 5 developed to help improve seafarers' physical functions with the aim of helping prevent work-related injuries. The exercises helped seafarers to renew their determination to eliminate fatal accidents onboard.

These safety conferences have been conducted annually since 2007 in major countries where our seafarers come from, to explaining our action plans to enhance safety operation in ビンゴ 5 group and to exchange opinions between seafarers and managements. We will continue these conferences in our quest for becoming the world leader in safe operation.