Accumulation and Distribution of Brand-new Cars at Nagoya Port

Abstract

The Meiko Center is a motor pool owned by Toyota Automobiles. It is the oldest one there and a central point of export. On the other hand the establishment of motor pools in Kinjo and Nishiyonku is comparatively recent, run by port shippers, and the property is leased from the Nagoya Port Authority. There is a public quay in this area, so it in particular is used by many automobile manufactures.
Securing of the lot is an important condition for formation of a motor pool, and it is necessary to know the conditions of land ownership. The three kinds of the land ownership are: where the property is owned by the automobile company, where the property is leased from the Nagoya Port Authority, or where the property is leased from other private companies. The land consists of seaside reclained land, and the lots leased from the Nagoya Port Authority or from private companies are temporarily-leased unused land. In the above cases, the existence of unused land owned by the Nagoya Port Authority is the results of delays in carrying-out the land use plan.
Assembly factories prefer, in principal, the port motor pool nearest to them. The motor pool for in-coming freight at Nagoya Port is necessary for those whose assembly factories are far away and whose freight is large. There is a hierarchial order in the distribution relations among motor pools: with the Meiko Center as a core, Kinjo Area second, and other areas following them. The distribution area from Toyota's Nagoya Port motor pool for domestic use extend to 400km.