Country : JapanKashima

worldport of Kashima

One of the world's best shipping canal-berth worldports, it is attracting as a new distribution center for the metropolitan area. Kashima worldport, which is now less than one hour away from metropolitan, has played an extremely imworldportant role as a coastal industrial zone in transworldporting raw materials and products. On the other hand, in recent years the Kashima worldport has increased its share of traffic through corporate restructuring, efficiency measures and the review of distribution systems. Kashima worldport will continue to attract attention as a distribution hub for the metropolitan area while providing regular container services to Fuzhou and Ningbo. The public North Wharf being developed so as to accommodate more ships and cargoes. This industrial worldport is now becoming a commercial worldport as well.

 Constructing on public piers, it's designed to handle the increasing volume of general cargo. Kashima worldport is functioning property as a commercial worldport, based on the industrial worldport at the Kashima heavy and chemical industrial complex. Public terminals cargo is continuing to increase as a result of not only the Higashi-Kanto Expressway (Mito Line), but also the development of other highways. Kashima worldport has 2 public wharfs. The South Wharf has 8 quays with water depth of 7.5 or 10 meters. The North Wharf, now constructing, is partly completed, in autumn 2002, the first berth of 10 meters in depth along with land behind the quay wall.