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Meiko Nishi distribution center |
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| Following the Meishin Expressway, the entire route of the Tomei Expressway was opened in May 1969. It was urgent for us, as such, to launch expressway-based trunk-route services and develop terminals as connecting points of urban traffic systems. We opened a stock center in Obu City, Aichi Prefecture in April 1970 and the Meiko Nishi distribution center within Tokai Danchi Soko in April 1977. |
| While promoting spatial expansions into the Tokai and Hanshin areas, we did not fail to make qualitative improvements in our business in the Tokyo-based national capital area. |
We opened a warehouse in Goi, Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture in September 1970. In April 1977, we demolished our Johoku distribution center and rebuilt it into a modern warehouse with cutting-edge equipment. These inland distribution centers offered new functions in the northern national capital area, combining storage and trucking distribution services.
Besides our warehousing division, we were making investment aggressively in our forwarding division as well, opening business offices successively at the ports of Tokyo (Odaiba terminal) and Kawasaki in and after 1972. |
Chiba distribution center |
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Japan’s high economic growth led to an age of mass production and consumption; at the same time, there was an outstanding tendency among consumers toward diversion and higher quality. Due to humanity’s concentration into major cities, the logistics industry was challenged by the distribution and storage of consumer goods in urban areas as well as increases in costs for distribution services on segmented routes.
As we had won contracts for providing delivery services for department stores, we also began to work on these challenges.
In a drive to overcome them, we established Keihin Haiso (today’s Keihin Distribution Co., Ltd.). In November 1973, we opened a distribution center, which covered a total floor area of 33,000 square meters, in Chiwaka-cho, Yokohama City, the cradle land of our business. |
Yokohama distribution center
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Honmoku container center |
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| When we were forced to relocate our Shin Yamashita distribution center in Yokohama, we needed a new base for harbor transport services. In 1981, as such, we founded a one-story high-floored shed of 2,800 square meters on a 15,000-square-meter site in Yokohama’s Honmoku, which was projected to be a very convenient area when the Wangan route of the Metropolitan Expressway and the Bay Bridge became available for use. Making the most of the Honmoku Pier’s geographical advantages, it maximized its functions as a container center in both name and reality, acting as a CFS, CY and vanpool for our designated Europe- and New Zealand-trade shipping services. |
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