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To develop easy-to-use, competitive container terminals, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Yokohama-Kawasaki International Port Corp. and Osaka-Kobe International Port Corp. are publicly seeking participants in a project to transport shipments between North America and Asia and between Central and South America and Asia via transshipment at the ports of Kawasaki, Yokohama, Osaka or Kobe. They hope the ports will have capabilities of smoothly transship containers from feeder to trunk-route services and vice versa.
More specifically, the partners are soliciting shippers, freight forwarders and other businesses that will cooperate in container transshipment at Kawasaki, Yokohama, Osaka or Kobe. By carrying shipments at the ports' container terminals, they will find out challenges to overcome to smoothly transship containers and discuss ways to do so.
Transported in the project will be seaborne containers from Asia (excluding Japan) to North America or Central and South America and vice versa that are transshipped at Kawasaki, Yokohama, Osaka or Kobe.
The partners will hold an online briefing session on Oct. 2 for business operators that intend to fine an application for the project.
