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Dedicated sidetracks running inside Chiwaka-cho facility |
Reclamation work
at Detamachi Wharf |
Ceremony for celebrating completion of Detamachi Wharf warehouse |
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| The development of a new wharf in Detamachi, which began in 1951, advanced rapidly, and new reclaimed land was completed adjacent to Chiwaka-cho. We built a warehouse on a site in the Detamachi Wharf, which we had acquired as alternative land in line with the development of sidetracks and the expansion of roads at the wharf. This was when we established a bridgehead for wharf warehouses. |
Completion of Detamachi Wharf warehouse |
Arrival of first crab-canning vessels from north-sea fisheries
(moored at Detamachi wharf) |
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Warehousing of canned foodstuffs into Detamachi wharf warehouse |
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| An enterprise was established for conducting cooperative sales activities for exports, handling canned crab and salmon/trout processed onboard vessels deployed in north-sea fisheries, which were resumed in postwar days, and cans of saury from coastal fisheries. Designated in 1953 by this enterprise, we received many canned foodstuffs for exports from producers and store them in our warehouse. In these way, we secured stable cargo movements in the port and harbor sector, which tended to be affected vulnerably by seasonal factors, by beginning to handle cereal grains for food, tobacco and canned foodstuffs, our three major cargo items. |
Opening of Yokohama
Shinko Pier office
(in 1957) |
Commencement of
barge services |
New office established
later on same site
(in 1963) |
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| As time went on, we were demanded to provide consolidated logistics services by combining harbor transport and warehousing operations. In 1953, as such, we commenced harbor transport services, obtaining a business license for barge transport services. We set up a shipping division in 1954 to operate maritime transport services. In 1955, we were authorized to provide port and harbor services and acquired permission for Customs-clearance services. These developments meant that we established a system under which we could process various import-related formalities on our own. When the Port of Yokohama’s Shinko Pier was derequisitioned, we opened a new business office at the same pier as a base for maritime cargo transport services. |
Transport of imported
corn onboard barges
(in 1956) |
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| In 1956, when the volume of exports and imports that we handled was increasing, we opened a center of some 330 square meters for smoothly inspecting export and import cargoes, chiefly intending to provide tapping inspection and packing services for canned foodstuffs. In 1958, we build an inspection center of some 660 square meters to meet growth in exports and imports of leaf tobacco. We developed these special facilities for handling specific commodities. |
Tapping inspections on
export canned foodstuffs |
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Inspections on leaf tobacco |
Leaf Tobacco inspection center
(in 1956; in Chiwaka-cho) |
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