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At the time when we began business
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| We were established in December 1947 as Otsu Kogyo Co., Ltd., our predecessor. Purchasing the buildings and sites that Kanto Kogyo owned in Chiwaka-cho, Yokohama City, we changed our name to Keihin Warehouse Co., Ltd., commencing the operation of warehouses of a total of 10,000 square meters. |
Address for commemoration of foundation
(Chiwaka-cho, Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama City) |
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Scene from ceremony for
celebrating establishment
(in P Warehouse in Chiwaka-cho) |
Scene from ceremony for
celebrating establishment
(outside W Warehouse in Chiwaka-cho) |
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At the time when we began business, postwar food shortages were so severe that most of Japan’s major ports were busy handling imports of cereal cargoes for food. We handled potato for the public corporation for providing foodstuffs as the first item handled in our warehouses.
Afterward, we processed staple foods, designated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s food bureau. We also handled import shipments for the public corporations for trading textile products as well as dealing with raw materials and mining industrial products. |
Inspections on Belgian hemp |
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First warehousing activities with horses
(handling potato) |
Constant developments at
Chiwaka-cho compounds
(in 1949) |
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In those days, cargo-handling activities were very primitive, carried out exclusively by humans. Ahead of other companies, we purchased steel hoppers, sawing machines, devices for an entire
process of packing foodstuffs and peripheral in-factory cargo-handling equipment and transport vehicles. We embarked upon the modernization of cargo-handling activities in warehouses, which had previously been carried out by horses and humans. It was an epoch-making development in those days. |
Operations with slat
conveyors |
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Cargo-handling activities with battery cars |
Full array of cargo-handling
equipment |
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| In 1950, we were designated by Japan Monopoly Corporation as its dedicated warehouses. As imports of leaf tobacco from the U.S. were resumed for the first time since the end of World War II, it arrived one after another at our warehouses. We began storing domestic and imported leaf tobacco. We came to nearly monopolize the handling of leaf tobacco, which later grew into our main cargo item. |
Drayage activities for tobacco with tractors |
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Domestic leaf tobacco
in storage |
Unloading of tobacco imported from the U.S. |
Loading of freight cars with
tobacco with winches |
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