Yusuke Hongo is a general manager, Corporate Marketing Division of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and is responsible for global marketing strategy and business intelligence.
He joined MOL in December 2008 from manufacturing industry and started his career in the Tanker Division. He engaged in LPG carrier business until 2016, including secondment to subsidiary in Singapore responsible for chartering and operation.
In 2016, he returned to MOL Tokyo headquarters to take a role of research and business development in Energy Business Strategy Division. He carried out business development about a field which conventional energy organizations don’t covers (at that time), such as ethane carrier, off-shore wind turbine installation, etc.
In 2019, he started leading a LNG carrier team mainly in charge of Chinese business. In 2022, he took a role of deputy general manager of Liquefied Gas Unit2 which handles overseas projects. Then in April 2023, he was appointed as head of Corporate Marketing Division.
He graduated from the Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo in March 2000.