Go to Minato!　History of Yokohama Port (5)

　History of Yokohama Port (for the general public)
　Opening of Ports - Civilization 　Municipal organization enforcement-The Great Kanto Earthquake 　Earthquake Reconstruction - World War II
　Postwar period of high economic growth period Container Age ~ present

I hope Minato Mirai 21

The dramatic change in the Japanese economy, called high economic growth, became a wave of modernization and rationalization, and had a major impact on ports.

From around 1967 (Showa42), a large iron box called "container" was used to transport foreign cargo.

Until then, many cargoes were individually packaged and loaded on ships one by one, so packaging, shipping, and cargo handling work for unloading. ), transportation from the port to the port were very expensive.

However, using "container", packaging of cargo becomes easier (easy), cargo handling can be done in large quantities by a large crane called gantry crane called gantry cranes, and further arrangement of cargo for each recipient Because of the simplicity, transportation from port to port has become very quick and easy.

In addition, transportation of cargo by "containers" has also become more secure.

The volume of container cargo continues to increase at a very rapid pace every year.

Containership Ships, which carry containers exclusively for containers, are now becoming larger in size.

However, since all the facilities at Yokohama Port had been built for ordinary cargo ships since ancient times, these facilities can handle container cargo, but due to poor efficiency, port facilities for containership ships had to be built in a hurry.

Therefore, Yokohama City has made a port plan to handle container cargo, first constructed Honmoku Pier and Daikoku Wharf, and set up a “Gantry crane” to arrange facilities for container cargo. ).

However, in order to cope with the ever-increasing container cargo, we started construction of Minami-Honmaki Wharf in 1991 and opened two of the four container terminal plans in 2001 and the third terminal in 2015.

In this way, the port was expanded to the offshore side due to the maintenance that began in the middle of the Meiji era, but now 150 years after the opening of the port, from Yamauchi Wharf / Takashima Wharf The Osanbashi area has become the deepest part of the port, and has deteriorated (Rokyuka).

For this reason, the Minato Mirai 21 Plan and the Osanbashi Wharf Redevelopment Project, which harmonizes the port and the town, and create a new waterfront in Yokohama, were promoted.

In addition, the sailing boat (Hansen) Nippon Maru / Yokohama Minato Museum (Hakubutsukan), Akarengasoko, Rinko Park (Seaside Park), Zounohana Park, Marine Park, Hakkeijima, sea shovel facilities, etc. are maintained and used.

The first ship San Juan (Photo: Yokohama Minato Museum Collection)

"Major import products of this era"

Non-ferrous metals

Automobile

"Major exports of this era"

Office equipment (Jimyokiki)

Automobile

To the previous era