NYK and YLK Jointly Hold Seminar for National Staff from Offices around the World

From October 7 to 11, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK; head office: Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo; president: Yusumi Kudo) and Yusen Logistics Co., Ltd. (YLK; head
office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; president: Hiromitsu Kuramoto) jointly conducted
their 2013 Global NYK/YLK Week, a training seminar targeting NYK and YLK
national staff from around the world. Twenty-eight staff members ? 14 from
NYK and 14 from YLK ? were selected from the Group’s global business bases
to attend the seminar.

The seminar was held in Tokyo and Kyoto and aimed to foster a sense of
solidarity among the Group members by promoting mutual understanding across
national, company, and divisional boundaries. Since last year, the seminar
has been jointly organized by NYK and YLK, aiming to further strengthen
linkages and networks within the Group.

This year’s seminar was held under the theme, 塗ichWhat will be the key
challenges for the NYK Group over the next five years?罵och Participants
actively exchanged opinions during various programs designed to deepen
understanding of the business and initiatives of the NYK Group. The
programs included discussions on the NYK Group values of integrity,
innovation, and intensity; lectures on each divisional strategy based on
the medium-term management plan; and workshops focusing on quality and
workplace skills that are the basis of the Group’s competitiveness. The
participants were divided into five groups, and each group made a
presentation about the seminar’s theme. This raised members’ consciousness
of the importance of active participation in the Group’s business
management.

Moreover, to promote better understanding of Japanese culture, the members
visited various cultural sites and took part in Zen meditation in Kyoto.

It is expected that all participants will take their experiences from the
five-day seminar back home to share with their colleagues. The NYK Group
will continue to foster national staff members working at the Group’s
global business bases to promote NYK’s continuing growth as a global
company.