Two years on from quitting ship owning with the sale of its chemical tanker fleet to Mitsui OSK Lines, New York’s Fairfield-Maxwell is returning to the business of shipping, opening a new office in Tokyo aimed at participating in ship construction, ownership, investment and leasing. The new company – Fairfield Maritime Japan – will focus on being the tonnage provider of choice and offering a diverse range of vessel types, including chemical tankers, medium range tankers, gas carriers and newbuilds.
Fairfield Maritime Japan will leverage a highly experienced leadership team including Ryuichi Osonoe as president. Osonoe is a 40-year veteran executive formerly with Iino Kaiun Kaisha,
Fairfield Maritime Japan will be part of a newly formed Fairfield Maritime Group. The business will build on the significant 65-plus year legacy in the shipping industry which began in 1957 when Keiichi Sugahara founded Fairfield- Maxwell and began brokering maritime crude oil shipments to Japan.
This new business launch comes approximately two years after Fairfield-Maxwell’s divestiture of subsidiary Fairfield Chemical Carriers to MOL.
“With this reemergence, Fairfield Maritime Japan will build upon the Fairfield / Sugahara
tradition of excellence in shipping,” said Byron Sugahara, chairman of the board of Fairfield-Maxwell.
