Japan to create two hub ports

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Japan is to create two mega-ports - designated International Strategic Freight Ports (ISFP) - which will receive priority funding to ensure ...

Hanshin ports seek hub status

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Japan’s Hanshin ports - Osaka, Kobe, Sakai Semboku and Amagasaki Nishinomiya Ashiya - have asked the central government to designate them ...

Car terminals for NYK

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Japan’s NYK Line plans to build and expand car export terminals in India and China, the world’s two most populous and fastestgrowing cou...

Shibushi in the spring

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A new multi-purpose terminal being built at the Japanese port of Shibushi will open next spring, according to Akira Hagi, a spokesman for th...

Three Osaka Bay ports to merge

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The Japanese government is going ahead with plans to merge the central ports of Osaka, Kobe and Amagasaki-Nishinomiya-Ashiya into a superpor...

Hakata adds box berth

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A second container berth will open at Island City Container Terminal at the Japanese port of Hakata in spring 2008 to handle ultra-large shi...

Japan backs South Pacific port upgrade

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The Tuvalu island group in the South Pacific has announced plans to upgrade port facilities at its capital, Funafuti, with the help of US$8M...

Osaka Bay merger plan

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The Japanese government is proposing to merge the four Osaka Bay ports of Kobe, Osaka, Sakai-Senboku, and Amagasaki-Nishinomiya-Ashiya into ...

Japan to go 24/7?

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The Japan Maritime Bureau's budget proposals for fiscal 2002 include references to the need to introduce 24 hour working at the country's po...

Japan box figures up

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Japan's ports handled a total of 12.678 mill TEU (mTEU) in 2000, up 9.7 per cent on the figure for 1999, according to figures published last...

Seven up for Japan terminal

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Seven bids, including two non-Japanese and one Japanese-American, have been received by the Kita-Kyushu Harbour Bureau (KFB) for its planned...

Kita-Kyushu first

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A new container terminal planned for Hibikinada by the Kita-Kyushu Harbour Bureau will be the first project in Japan to be executed under th...

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