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Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha's board has resolved to cancel the 44,429,000 treasury shares it bought back under a ¥130bn program, cutting its total issued shares by 6.95% to 594,743,067 when the cancellation takes effect on October 2, 2026.
The number: K Line spent ¥50.7bn buying back its own shares on June 2 alone, out of a ¥130bn program that runs through September 30. It then kept clearing roughly ¥1bn a day in purchases through June 8.
Effissimo said it held 229,086,900 Kawasaki Kisen shares, equivalent to a 35.84% holding ratio, as of June 3. The filing says the trigger was a change to important contracts, not a change in the headline stake, and details pledges, prime-brokerage lines, lending and a 30 million-share trust arrangement around the position.