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Japan
with its limited resources import almost all of bulk cargoes
such as resources by so-called
“bulker”, large vessel designed for bulk cargoes.
Bulk cargoes such as energy, grain and so
on are indispensable to our daily lives and economic
activities.
There are more and more demands for the resources by
worldwide population increase and rapid economic growth by
rising countries such as China
and India.
As a result, competition for
securing resources are
getting harder globally.
Under the circumstances, various countries try to
secure voluminous resources by
large bulker.
To cope with the tendency,
Japan
obviously needs to build up logistics
environments
for the sake of importing resources stably at low cost.
Lately, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism(MLIT) selected “International
Strategic Bulk Ports” as key ports for bulk cargo import.
MLIT will surely concentrate on their investments and
measurements on the selected ports so as to build up the
competitive logistics networks against the rest of the
world.
The feature of this month introduces some of the
selected ones with their plans.
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Expectations
to the International Strategic Bulk Ports – the necessity of keeping
international competitiveness of Japanese manufacturers,
keeping a close look at China’s demands, and joint
purchase/joint vessel operation among Japanese
companies.
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/Masayuki Hasegawa |
| ■Efforts
of the selected ports |
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<GRAIN>
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Port of
Kushiro -Joint use of
terminals and equipments & logistics cost-saving
measures
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/Atsushi Ban |
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Port of
Kashima-A step to the
next stage as a selected port in the Eastern part of
Japan
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/Hiroshi Sasaki |
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Port of Nagoya-Eight
policies for the goal |
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/Kazuhiro Ando |
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Port of
Mizushima-Mizushima Grain-handling Initiative Committee etc. |
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/Tetsuya Otsuka |
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Port of Shibushi-Two
stage measures,for 2015 and 2020 |
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/Toshihiro Yonemoto |
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Port of Kisarazu-Issues
for the future, cost-saving and safe navigation
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/Yuichi Iguchi |
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Port of Mizushima & Port
of Fukuyama-Establishment of “Hub & Spoke” transportation system
in Seto Inland Sea
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/Tetsuya Otsuka ,Masaaki Watanabe |
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Port of Onahama- Aiming
at being a key port for energy supply in Eastern Japan
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/Sumio Wada |
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Port of
Tokuyama-Kudamatsu & Port of Ube-Major coal import ports in Japan
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/Katsutoshi Sago |
| ■Report-The
Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Negative impacts on bulk cargoes(oil
manufacture and feed) and on manufacturers’SCM(automobile
and petrochemical industries)
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/Yusuke Hayashi |
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Selection of International Strategic
Bulk Ports-outline,process,result,
budget/taxation,and outlook
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/Takeshi Koya |
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