MOL Europe
MOL Europe is part of the liner division of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, founded in 1884 in Japan. As a whole, MOL is one of the largest shipping companies in the world and liner operations count for some 40% of oversees shipping.
MOL distinguishes itself from its competitors by operating trades between all continents. The European Head Office is based in Poortugaal (the Netherlands) and manages all trades in and from the EMEA area, covering Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.
Global organisation
Like many multinational organisations, MOL has divided the world in three areas: Asia & Australia, Europe & Africa and North & South America. Each area has its own Area Head Office and is responsible for (part of) the Trades to and from their area and of course, for the Trades within the area. In addition, the area head offices coordinate the regional offices which take care of the operational and logistic activities in the ports and hinterland. Worldwide, over 8.500 people work in MOL.
Marine crew and vessels are managed centrally from Japan. MOL has its own marine education centres in Croatia, the Philippines and India.
MOL Europe
MOL Europe manages trades to Asia, Africa and North-America and coordinates six regions in Europe and three in Africa. In Europe, MOL employs nearly 600 people and in Africa approximately 250.
The head office holds general departments such as finance, hr, marketing and administration but also more specific functions like trade management, business process, yield management, cost & logistics and marine operations.
The regions typically have customer service for imports, exports, logistics and sales as their main functions.
The area organisation within Europe is divided into 6 regions: UK& Ireland, Nordic, Centre, West Med, South and West. Each region has its own management team which is lead by the Regional General Manager and the local management team. Regional head offices are located in Southampton, Goteborg, Poortugaal, Hamburg, Le Havre and Genova.
The European Head office is truly international. Aside from Japanese and Dutch colleagues you will find people from all over Europe and beyond, like India, South-Africa and Taiwan; they amount to almost fifty percent. Although the Regional offices have a more local flavour, they are an integral part of MOL’s international network.
MOL Information Technology
A couple of years ago, MOL decided to split the IT activities from the operational business division. The main purpose was to create a global IT organisation, which looks after the office IT environment and develops our own ERP system which is used to facilitate the operational processes.
Although the development centres are not based in Europe, the European branch of MOL-IT still has a wide range of positions ranging from EDI development to Helpdesk to System Administrators.