Yokohama Port  Public Corporation President Takayuki Kaneda

As a gateway to the world, Yokohama Port has been playing a very important role in promoting the modernization and internationalization of Japan, since it was opened to foreign trade in 1859.
Today, Yokohama Port acts a significant role in contributing to the international cargo distribution as one of the leading ports in the world as well as in Japan.

Yokohama Port Public Corporation (YPPC) is a public service corporation established in December 1981 to manage and service the container terminals.
We have constructed, leased and managed the port terminals for foreign-trade cargos, to provide Yokohama Port with more efficient functions adaptable to the recent trends including the technological innovation in logistics and the increase of cargos. Our business is expanding in various ways, such as cooperating in harbor administration which the port management body, the City of Yokohama, implements.

Besides managing and servicing ten container terminals, two multi-purpose terminals and eight conventional terminals constructed by us, we have been managing public container terminals since April 2007, based upon the past experience and know-how obtained from management of container terminals. Thus, we manage all container terminals in Yokohama Port.
Meanwhile starting in April 2009, we collect port dues as an agent for KEIHIN three ports, Yokohama, Kawasaki, and Tokyo, in cooperation with these three port management bodies. We try to improve international competitiveness and user services not only in Yokohama Port but also in KEIHIN three ports.

The port is on the edge of an abyss. We, all the staff, aim to provide high degree of usability for our customers and to attract citizens, and also respond accurately to government-initiated designation as the country's strategic international containership ports (Kokusai Container Senryaku Kowan).

Logistics bases: From left, Minami Honmoku Pier, Honmoku Pier, Daikoku Pier.