Abstract
In January 1995, port of Kobe was severely damaged by the Hanshin-Awaji disaster. After the earhquake, all of port facilities have been recovered by the end of March 1997. Since then, various measures have been applied to achieve the most effective/efficient use of port facilities, such as reduction of handing costs, simplification of formalities and to making the Kobe port easier to use. However, container cargo activities in Kobe port have not been recovered as that before the disaster. In the present paper, "the model of container cargo activities in Kobe port" is studied. Using the result of statistics analysis. The authors develop a model to evaluate and to estimate relations between container cargo activities and indutstrial activities of hinterland. The authors show, after numerical simulations, that the cargo activities in Kobe port have been closely related with the industry and economic activity in hinter land of Kobe port.
