Port of Tokyo

Port of Tokyo
Harumi passenger terminal
Location
Country	Japan
Location	Tokyo
Details
Owned by	Tokyo Port Authority
Type of harbor	Natural/Artificial
Size of harbor	5,292 ha (52.92 sq km)
Land area	1,033 ha (10.33 sq km)
Size	6,325 ha (63.25 sq km)
Available berths	205
Employees	30,000^[1] (2007)
Statistics
Vessel arrivals	31,653 vessels (2008)^[2]
Annual cargo tonnage	90,810,000 tonnes (2007)^[2]
Annual container volume	3,696,000 TEU's (2007)^[3]
Value of cargo	¥12,012.9 billion (2006)^[2]
Website kouwan.metro.tokyo.jp/en

The Port of Tokyo is one of the largest Japanese seaports and one of the largest seaports in the Pacific Ocean basin having an annual traffic capacity of around 100 million tonnes of cargo and 4,500,000 TEU's.

The port is also an important employer in the area having more than 30,000 employees that provide services to more than 32,000 ships every year.

History

The forerunner of the Port of Tokyo, the Edo Port^[4] (Edo Minato) played a very important role in the history of marine transport of Japan and as a distribution point for supplying goods for the people of Edo. During the Tokugawa Shogunate the Port of Tokyo was not allowed to open to international trade, although the neighbouring Port of Yokohama was already open for this kind of trade.

The development of the port was finally encouraged during the Meiji Period with the influence of a project that was meant to improve the estuary of the Sumida River by dredging channels and reclaiming land at Tsukishima and Shibaura.^[4]

The Kanto earthquake in 1923 served as a starting point of a full - scale terminal construction project, which was topped out with the opening of the first terminal Hinode in 1925.^[4] Alongside the completion of another two terminals, Shibaura and Takeshiba, the Port of Tokyo opened for international trade on May 20, 1941.^[4]

After World War II the development of the port became a vital task for the reconstruction of the Japanese industry, and construction started on the Toyosu coal terminal, the Harumi terminal and other terminals one after another.^[4]

By the late 1960s, the container transport system had become a major factor in shipping world-wide. In 1967, Nippon Container Terminals, Ltd. (NCT), became the port's (and Japan's) first container terminal operator. That same year, the first container ship to call on a Japanese port was the first such ship handled by NCT.^[4] This significantly contributed to establishing the Port of Tokyo as a major international trade port.^[5]

Statistics

In 2007 the Port of Tokyo handled 90,810,000 tonnes of cargo and 3,696,000 TEU's making it one of the busiest cargo ports in Japan and one of the largest container ports in the country.^[2]

**General statistics between 2004 - 2006**^[6]
Year	2004	2005	2006
Vessels (number)	32,633	32,180	31,653
Foreign trade (trillion ¥)	9.9	10.8	12
Containers (TEU's)	3,358,000	3,598,000	3,696,000
Containers^*	42,972,000	43,281,000	42,987,000
Other cargo^*	48,455,000	48,751,000	47,824,000
*Total^'**	91,427,000	92,032,000	90,811,000

* figures in tonnes

Terminals

Container terminals

The Port of Tokyo has three container terminals with an area of 1,504,718 m² with a total number of 15 berths and a quay length of 4,479 metres.

Oi container terminal

The terminal has seven berths with an area of 945,700 m² and a quay length of 2,354 metres.

Aomi container terminal

The terminal has five berths with an area of 479,079 m² and a quay length of 1,570 metres.

Shinagawa container terminal

The terminal has three berths with an area of 79,939 m² and a quay length of 333 metres. Opened in 1967 it is the oldest container terminal in Japan.^[7]

Kamigumi Tokyo container terminal

The terminal has one berth with a quay length of 260 metres. Private berth by Kamigumi.

Foodstuff terminal

There are two foodstuff terminals opened in February, 1999, Oi marine products and Oi foodstuff,with five berths with a quay length of 1,060 metres and a storage area of 359,000 m².

General cargo

The general cargo section of the port has five terminals: one for bulk cargo, one for timber, one for construction materials, one for log handling and one for linear products with a storage area of 900,000 m², a quay length of 3,500 metres, storage for 200,000 cubic metres of timber and storage for 210,000 tonnes of logs.^[8]

Automobile terminal

The Port of Tokyo has two RoRo terminal with a total length of 1,200 metres, a land area of 100,000 m², storage capacity of 22,000 cars and a transshipment capacity of 3,500,000 units per year.^[9]

References

Mass transit in the Greater Tokyo Area

Bold indicates major JR lines or non-JR lines that have through service to subways

Major JR East lines
(Capital Area)

Short-distance	■ Yamanote ■ Keihin-Tōhoku - Negishi ■ (Chūō-Sōbu) Local

Mid-distance	■ Utsunomiya (Tohoku Main) & Takasaki - ■ Tōkaidō ■ Ueno-Tōkyo ■ Chūō Rapid ■ Yokosuka - Sōbu Rapid ■ Jōban ■ Keiyō ■ Kawagoe (Eastern Section) - Saikyō (Akabane) - Rinkai ■ Shōnan-Shinjuku

Tokyo Metro lines

Toei subway lines

Yokohama Municipal

Blue
Green

Other JR East lines
(Capital Area)

■ Yokohama
■ Musashino
■ Nambu
■ Sagami
■ Hachikō - Kawagoe (Western Section)
■ Ryōmō
■ Tsurumi
Tohoku Direction
- ■ Karasuyama
- ■ Nikkō
Chuo Direction
- ■ Chūō Main (mid-distance)
- ■ Itsukaichi
- ■ Ōme
Sobu Direction
- ■ Sōbu Main
- ■ Narita
- ■ Sotobō
- ■ Uchibō
- ■ Tōgane
Joban Direction
- ■ Mito
- ■ Narita
Tokaido Direction
- ■ Itō
- ■ Gotemba (JR Central)

Keikyu

Keikyū Main
- Airport
- Daishi
- Kurihama
- Zushi

Keio

Keiō
- Keiō New
- Dōbutsuen
- Keibajō
- Sagamihara
- Takao
Inokashira

Keisei

Keisei Main
- Chiba
- Chihara
- Higashi-Narita
- Kanamachi
- Oshiage
Narita Sky Access

Odakyu

Seibu

Ikebukuro lines
- ■ Ikebukuro
- ■ Sayama
- ■ Seibu Chichibu
- ■ Seibu Yūrakuchō
- ■ Toshima
Shinjuku Lines
- ■ Shinjuku
- ■ Haijima
- ■ Kokubunji
- ■ Seibu-en
- ■ Tamagawa
- ■ Tamako

Sotetsu

Sotetsu Main
- Izumino

Tobu

Tokyu

Other commuter rail lines

Monorails & light transit

Monorails	Chiba Monorail Disney Resort Shōnan Monorail Tama Monorail Tokyo Monorail

People movers	New Shuttle Kanazawa Seaside Nippori-Toneri Yamaguchi Yūkarigaoka Yurikamome

Trams	Enoden Setagaya Arakawa

Hinterland

Cable cars and
aerial tramways

Bus

Public ferries

Major terminals

Rail
- Akihabara
- Chiba
- Hachiōji
- Ikebukuro
- Kita-Senju
- Mito
- Odawara
- Ōmiya
- Ōtemachi
- Shibuya
- Shinagawa
- Shinjuku
- Tachikawa
- Tokyo
- Ueno
- Yokohama
Airports
- Haneda
- Narita
- Chofu
- Ibaraki
Ports
- Yokohama
- Tokyo

Miscellaneous

Construction projects

Sōtetsu JR Link Line

Japan transit: Tokyo
Osaka
Nagoya
Fukuoka
Hakone Fuji Izu
Hokkaido
Toyama
Okayama
Shikoku
Sendai
Hiroden
Metro systems
Shinkansen
trams (list)
aerial lifts (list)

Major Ports of Japan

Kantō Ports	Tokyo Yokohama Port of Kawasaki Chiba Yokosuka

Kansai Ports	Kobe Osaka Sakai Senboku Port Wakayama Shimotsu Port Port of Himeji

Tōkai Ports	Port of Yokkaichi Nagoya Port of Shimizu

Northern Kyushu Ports	Port of Shimonoseki Port of Kitakyushu Port of Hakata Port of Saga Port of Nagasaki

Other Ports	Port of Tomakomai Sendai Shiogama Port Port of Muroran Fushiki Toyama Port Port of Mizushima Port of Hiroshima Port of Tokuyama Kudamatsu Sakata Takamatsu Funagawa Tsuruga Noshiro Hachinohe Ibaraki Akita Suminoe no Tsu Port of Niigata

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Coordinates: 35°37′01″N 139°47′44″E / 35.61694°N 139.79556°E / 35.61694; 139.79556

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