Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Japan started to operate in 1957, and its Chilean subsidiary, Mitsui & Co. (Chile) Ltda. was created in 1969.

Mitsui's essential business model is trading business for exports, imports and local transactions , providing our customers with comprehensive services to facilitate local business transactions, including searching and analyzing information related to business trends and market conditions, different financial products and best logistical solution. Mitsui's other relevant business model is investment. We have contributed to increase business value through investments in areas where future growth is expected, proposing business management solutions and developing opportunities inherent thereto, making use to leveraging Mitsui's know-how strengths.

Mitsui currently combines its five core functions (Marketing, Financing, Logistics, Risk Management, and Information Technology) with a set of capacities in engineering business through extensive business knowledge. Said capacities account for a wide range of business range to provide high value-added solutions and services meeting customer needs around the world.

For over 55 years in this country, Mitsui & Co. (Chile) Ltda. has developed different kinds of businesses, from exports and imports between Chile and other world markets such as salmon, marine resources, agro-industrial produce, cars, chemicals and plastics, rock salt, copper concentrates and cathodes, molybdenum concentrates, semi-finished steel products and wood chips, as well as large investments in the areas of mining, machinery, agroindustry, fish farming and forestry, in an amount of about 4 billion US dollars to date. Throughout its presence in Chile, Mitsui Chile has dealt with the challenges and needs posed in Chile by developing different businesses and creating new values. Our history is one of challenge and innovation; a track record of growth together with the Chilean society within an ever-changing and growing global economy.

Our business areas are organized in four departments to provide better solutions for our customers' growth and development in such industrial sectors as Energy and Mineral Resources, Foods, Chemicals, and Infrastructure Projects.