Outline
Osaka Port, located close to the major metropolitan area, is one of the Specially Designated Major Ports and plays a significant role as a Designated Super-hub Port, gHanshin Port,h directly connecting itself with other major parts of the region by expressway and arterial highway network.
While Sakishima Area has developed as a center for container commodity flows, Yumeshima district started to operate a container terminal, to cope with the increase in freight transport and in ship size, and three berths are presently operating in unity since October, 2009.
A vacant lot after the relocation of the container terminal from Sakishima District to Yumesaki District is now used as a ferry terminal, due to its convenient location connected to land transportation facilities.
History of Development and Usage
| 1868 |
Osaka Port was opened. |
| 1951 |
Designated as a Specially Designated Major Port. |
| 1971 |
Nanko Ferry Terminal 1 started operation. |
| 1973 |
North American Pacific Route was opened.
Operations of a passenger terminal of Osaka Nanko Ferry Wharf started. |
| 1981 |
gNew Tramh Nanko Port Town Train Line began operations. |
| 1985 |
Osaka International Ferry Terminal was constructed.
Shanghai-Osaka Ferry service started. |
| 1987 |
The first foreign passenger vessel "Konstantin Chernenko" entered the Tempozan Wharf.
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| 1989 |
Hanshin Expressway Osaka Port Route was fully opened. |
| 1990 |
Tempozan Harbor Village was opened. |
| 1991 |
Operations of Nanko C-7, Osaka Port Container Wharf #8 and Hokko Shiratsu Wharf partly started. |
| 1992 |
Operations of Nanko Wharf C-9 started. |
| 1994 |
Hanshin Expressway gOsaka Bay Routeh was fully opened.
Nanko Air Cargo Terminal was opened. |
| 1996 |
Operations of Osaka Port International Ferry Terminal began. |
| 1997 |
Sakishima Tunnel was opened. |
| 2002 |
Operations of Yumeshima Wharf C-10 began.
Operations of Container Wharf #11 started. |
| 2004 |
Designated a Super-hub Port as Hanshin Port (Kobe and Osaka Ports). |
| 2005 |
Osaka Port was designated as a Specially Designated Major Port. |
| 2007 |
Ports in Osaka Bay started to function as a single entity (gHanshin Porth). |
| 2009 |
Yumeshima Tunnel was opened.
Operations of high-standard container terminal in Yumeshima started. |
| 2010 |
Hanshin Port (Kobe and Osaka Ports) was selected as a Strategic Port for International Container Ships. |
Breakdown items of freight (2009)
