Dec. 25, 2025
NYK Group’s Top News Stories for 2025
Steadily executing the medium-term management plan centered on sustainability management
This year marks the third year since the formulation of our 2023 medium-term management plan. Aiming to further enhance corporate value, we have advanced the deepening of our core businesses and the development of new ventures — all anchored in sustainability management. We are steadily executing business investments in line with the plan’s business investment policy, including measures linked to our key materiality areas: Safety, Environment, and Human Resources.
In 2026, the final year of the medium-term management plan, we will continue to advance our growth strategy centered on sustainability as a unified group, driving initiatives toward the realization of a sustainable society.
Here are the top NYK Group news stories for 2025.
Sustainability Management
Safety
New DynaMoor Mooring Trial Begins
NYK Enhances NAV9000 Safety Standard
Environment
World's First Environmental Value Created through Operation of NYK Ammonia-fueled Tugboat
NYK Recognized by CDP as One of World’s Top Green Businesses for Sixth Consecutive Year
NYK to Invest in Northern Offshore Group AB to Strengthen Offshore Wind Collaboration
NYK Welcomes First Japan-made CTV: Alfonsino Arrow
NYK Conducts Biofuel Trial on Coal Carrier for Tohoku Electric Power
World’s First Commercial-Use Ammonia-Fueled Tugboat Completes Three-Month Demonstration Voyage
Successful Ship-to-Ship Transfer of 23,000 Tons of Liquefied Ammonia Achieved
Yara and NYK Conclude World’s First Time-Charter Agreement for Ammonia-Fueled Medium Gas Carrier
Memorandum of Understanding Concluded on Establishing a Standard Design Framework Utilizing MILES for Liquefied CO2 Carriers and Alternative Fuel Ships
Human Resources
NYK Promotes Woman to Chief Engineer for First Time
NYK’s Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Recognized for Third Consecutive Year with Best Workplace 2025 D&I Award
Core and New Businesses
NYK Line, NYK CRUISES, and Oriental Land Conclude Basic Business Partnership Agreement concerning Oriental Land’s Cruise Business
NYK Selected for JAXA's Space Strategy Fund
NYK Obtains Approval in Principle for Offshore Reusable Rocket Recovery System
Parties Sign MoU to Realize Offshore Floating Green Data Center Utilizing 100% Renewable Energy
NYK to Build and Operate Next-Generation Finished-Vehicle Logistics Terminal at Port of Barcelona
Europe's First Fully Automated Multilevel Parking System for Finished Vehicles to Be Constructed at the Port of Zeebrugge, Belgium
NYK Group’s Acquisition of Healthcare Logistics Business of the Walden Group
Three NYK Group Shipping and Ship-Management Companies to Merge
NYK Energy Ocean Sets Sail
NYK Reaches an Agreement on Acquisition of Kadmos, an Innovative End-to-end Salary Payments Platform for Seafarers
Other Important News
Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration
MTI to Participate in The University of Osaka’s Open Collaboration Laboratory for Enabling Advanced Marine Systems
MTI-led Collaboration Launches R&D in Support of Competitive Maritime Industry
DX
Implementing Advanced Cloud and Platform Technologies to Revamp Internal System Infrastructure
Sustainability Initiatives
Hikawa Maru to Undergo Long-Term Preservation
PR activities
NYK Launches Owned-Media Website -- Corporate Website also Renewed --
NYK Begins Airing Commercials Featuring New Slogan
The news on this website is as of the date announced and may change without notice.