Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Kentaro Tamura, hereinafter "MOL") and IBM Japan, Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Akio Yamaguchi, hereinafter "IBM Japan") have jointly developed an AI-powered platform (hereinafter the "Platform") designed to integrate diverse information related to ship operations and enhance decision-making. The Platform serves as the core of MOL's Safety Operation Supporting Center (SOSC) (Note 1), which supports the safe operation of MOL-affiliated vessels navigating worldwide. It achieves improvements in the quality and speed of operational decisions by centrally managing information that was previously dispersed, such as weather and sea conditions, navigation status, and geopolitical trends, and by rapidly extracting information that vessels should be wary of. [Image: MOL SOSC in operation] In recent years, the environment surrounding ship operations has become increasingly complex due to rapid changes in weather and sea conditions, and the growing impact of geopolitical factors. Under these circumstances, the SOSC faced the challenge of balancing the quality and speed of decision-making, which involved extracting critical events from vast and dispersed information, organizing them across multiple factors, and making crucial judgments simultaneously. The Platform, which commenced operation on July 1, combines the expertise in ship operations accumulated by SOSC, the AI technology of MOL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDIA PVT. LTD., and IBM Japan's specialized knowledge in AI and data utilization. It was developed using the IBM Garage (Note 2) methodology, which drives value creation from system design proposals tailored to customer needs through to development and implementation. [Key Features of the Platform] 1. Real-time Situation Awareness through Integration of Ship-Related Information A data management foundation that integrates real-time weather and sea condition d