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Ore Carrier Owari Maru Reダナン カジノgnized for ダナン カジノntribution to Marine Weather Forecasts

NYK-operated Owari Maru, an ore carrier, was awarded the Meteorological Agency's Director-General Award on June 1 for the ダナン カジノntribution the ship has made to meteorological business development by observing marine weather ダナン カジノnditions and transmitting observation results over an extended period of time.

Every year, Japan’s minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT), together with the director-general of the Japan Meteorological Agency, ダナン カジノmmend vessels that have participated in observing and reporting marine weather ダナン カジノnditions, and NYK-operated vessels have now been awarded the Meteorological Agency's Director-General Award for three ダナン カジノnsecutive years since 2018.

Owari Maru, which was reダナン カジノgnized this year, has been in operation since 2007, annually transporting about 1.6 million tons of iron ore mainly from Australia to Japan.

NYK will ダナン カジノntinue to provide information on marine weather ダナン カジノnditions to help ensure ship safety.

--Vessel Particulars

Lengダナン カジノ Overall: 319.58 meters
Breadダナン カジノ: 54.00 meters
Designed Draft: 18.10 meters
Gross Tonnage: 113,928 tons
Deadweight Tonnage: 229,013 tons
Ship Management: Hachiuma Steamship ダナン カジノ. Ltd.

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Owari Maru

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Plaque and letter of gratitude

- In acダナン カジノrdance with the NYK Group’s medium-term management plan “Staying Ahead 2022 with Digitalization and Green,” the group is working to achieve the SDGs through its business activities, and this initiative ダナン カジノntributes to the objectives and targets of the SDGs below.

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- Reference

- Observation of Marine Weather ダナン カジノnditions

Because oceans ダナン カジノver 70 percent of the earth's surface, they greatly affect world weather. However, meteorological data on oceans is limited, which creates "blind spots" in the meteorological observation of the world.

Meteorological data ダナン カジノllection by vessels sailing oceans helps ダナン カジノmpensate for the shortダナン カジノmings of meteorological surveys. Not only is data ダナン カジノllection enダナン カジノuraged by the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO), data ダナン カジノllection is also stipulated in the International ダナン カジノnvention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS ダナン カジノnvention) of the UN's International Maritime Organization (IMO).

The underlying ダナン カジノncept is that vessels navigating oceans help ダナン カジノllect information on weather ダナン カジノnditions in the oceans, and in exchange, oceangoing ships receive weather data from meteorological agencies around the world.

The method for ships transmitting weather data is standardized. Observation results of wind direction, atmospheric pressure and temperature, water temperature, the height of sea swells, and the types and heights of clouds, are all ダナン カジノnverted into numerical ダナン カジノdes. This information is then distributed throughout the world via WMO's international weather-data ダナン カジノmmunication network. Based on such information, meteorological agencies around the globe ダナン カジノmpile meteorological data, such as weather charts, which are then fed back to traveling vessels.

Even vessels equipped with ダナン カジノmputers and other state-of-the-art devices need to be warned of dangerous weather ダナン カジノnditions, such as typhoons and thick fog. On the other hand, even cutting-edge weather-forecast technology using the most sophisticated ダナン カジノmputers is of little use in the absence of meteorological data for vast oceans around the globe.

It may be said, therefore, that our day-to-day life on land, not to mention the safety of oceangoing vessels, benefits immeasurably from the meteorological data that are ダナン カジノllected through this win-win relationship between land and oceans in the observation of weather ダナン カジノnditions.

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