•Shipping companies are trying to concentrate their ports of call as the tendency toward super-large container vessels continues. (Japan's major ports are facing the crisis of being skipped on the trunk routes.)
•If Japan's ports are thrown off the trunk routes, it could mean shaken stability in international logistics, a longer time for container transport, a rise in all kinds of costs and so on. Thus it could lead to declines in our living standard and industrial competitiveness. This is the reason the Super Hub Port Project has been promoted. The project will hopefully maintain and increase the number of port-calls by the ships using the trunk routes.
MC-3&4 Container Terminals will be constructed with a view to enhancing the international competitiveness of the Port of Yokohama. MC-3&4 will play a pivotal role as central facilities in the super hub port.
MC-3&4 container terminals with very deep quay walls are scheduled to be constructed. It is because container cargo handling volume has been increasing steadily at the Port of Yokohama and the tendency for container vessels to become extra-large on the trunk routes around the Port of Yokohama is continuing. Construction of MC-3 container terminal will start first in fiscal 2007.
