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| We began endeavoring to expand our Yokohama-based business into other parts of the Tokyo-Yokohama area in and after 1955, gradually solidifying our position as a warehouse operator in urban areas. As part of this policy, we first built a two-story warehouse in Fukagawa. Afterward, we inaugurated the initial phase of construction for a five-floor warehouse of reinforced concrete in Shibaura (where our head office is located now). From these Tokyo bases, we started to develop into other regions one after another. We developed business bases as footholds to expand our services in new markets. |
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Completion of Fukagawa warehouse
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Completion of initial phase
of Shibaura warehouse
(in 1962) |
We had already established a combined system of warehousing and harbor transport services. For the purpose of enhancing the system to include overland services to provide comprehensive maritime, warehousing and overland services, however, we obtained a business license for moving cargoes in general areas in 1960, launching overland services.
In 1961, we set up a transport division within our head office, improving sea-and-land and other transport services as well as opening outdoor cargo storage space and sheds for cargo sorting in Johoku, Shin-Yamashita and other locations as truck-terminal warehouses.
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Shin-Yamashita distribution center |
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Opening of truck terminals |
Enhanced overland service division
(at the Yamashita Pier, in 1963) |
Overall view of Yamashita Pier warehouse |
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| For the purpose of enhancing warehousing capacity, we were looking for a site for a new facility in Yokohama. In October 1962, we completed a 13,220-square-meter four-story warehouse of reinforced concrete at the Port of Yokohama's Yamashita Pier, where the creation of land via reclamation had begun as part of Yokohama City's port and harbor development plan. In the new warehouse, which was developed in the PC construction method, an unprecedented method in those days, units on each floor, all of which covered over some 330 square meters, had no pillars or columns at all to ensure the mobility of logistics activities. The modern warehousing facility had dehumidification and refrigeration systems on all floors. |
Scene from reception for completion of Yamashita Pier warehouse |
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Inside Yamashita Pier warehouse with
spaciousness secured with PC beams |
Yamashita Pier warehouse
(completed in 1963) |
Takatsuki terminal, overland service base in Kansai area
(in 1964) |
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| Acquiring a warehouse of some 2,314 square meters adjacent to Osaka’s Umeda Kamotsu station, we remodeled it into our Umeda office in 1962. In 1964, we opened a truck terminal warehouse in Hashiramoto, Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture. We developed both facilities as bases for our overland services in Kansai area. |
Umeda office in its early days
(in 1962) |
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