Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
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The new mid-term Japan port policy is being discussed in the Japanese government. Since 2002, the Japanese government has implemented the Super-hub Port Initiative, a new policy package for strengthening competitiveness of the container terminal business. However, it has recognized that it also needs to take some measures for hinterland of terminals in order to follow the rapid change in logistics and manufacturing systems. Then, the Japanese government proposed forming logistics centers which are unified with terminals in order to accommodate increasing import cargoes from Asian countries and highly utilizing hinterlands of ports and developing port facilities in order to encourage return of industry to coast areas. The next mid-term Japan port policy will be authorized by the end of this fiscal year.
