Those who are responsible for port
infrastructure have made constant efforts to achieve
possible earliest recovery from the
catastrophic earthquake. And the road to recovery can
be seen now.
The feature of this
month shows you great efforts for port function recovery.
■The
Great East Japan Earthquake occurring !
How did port-related people react
?
The threat of great tsunami hitting the
Sanriku(the pacific side of the north Japan) Coast-What
happened on March 11 in Kamaishi
/Mamoru Yamada
“The day and after” at
ports of Iwate- Kamaishi,Kuji,Miyako,and Ofunato
/Akihiro Murakami
< Prompt recovery from
the disaster at ports >
Port opening work to secure lifeline
Port
opening work for safe navigation at Port of Sendai-Shiogama
/Ryouichi Yanagida
Floating
wreckage collection work by “ocean environment maintenance
vessels”
owned by regional
development bureaus /Ports and Airports Department, Regional
Development
Bureau(Tohoku,Kanto,Chubu,Kinki,Shikoku) & International and Environmental
Policy Division,Ports and Harbours
Bureau,Ministry
of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Securing energy resources indispensable for electric
power supply
Reopening
efforts at Joban Joint Power Co.,Ltd.,Nakoso Thermal Power
Station in
Iwaki,Fukushima
/Keiichi Ozawa
Souma Joint Power
Co.,Ltd,Shinchi Thermal Power Station in
Fukushima
/Tatsuya Ara
Kashima Oil Refinery of
Kashima Oil Co.,Ltd. in
Ibaraki
/Toshiyuki Shimohigashi
Restoration
of logistics bases contributing to supply chain of private
companies
Collection and disposal
of scattered containers at Takasago container terminal of
Sendai Shiogama port
/Hiraku Kawagoe
Sanriku Unyu Co.,Ltd.
headquartered in Shiogama,Miyagi
/Kanichi
Shibuya
Ports of Ibaraki
prefecture- three districts(Hitachi,Hitachinaka,Oarai)
of Ibaraki Port
and Kashima Port
/Hiroshi Sasaki
Restoration of raw material procurement hubs needed for
local industry promotion
Recovery of Hachinohe
plant of Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
/Yasufumi
Kumagai
Efforts toward restoration by Nippon
Steel Corporation, Kamaishi Work, supporting the
local community
/Hayato Uchida
Taiheiyo
Cement Corporation,Ofunato plant, making its utmost efforts
to remove the
rubble
/Mineo Fuwano
Ishinomaki Futo Silo Co.,Ltd.’s recovery efforts for
local stockbreeding industry
/Toru Haneda
■The update of the disaster-stricken area and its
recovery plan in the future
Thirteen primary
ports damaged, from Hachinohe,Aomori, to
Kashima,Ibaraki
/Masato Koyama
Lessons from the Great
East Japan Earthquake
/Takujiro Miyamoto
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