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The Port of Yokohama (横浜港, Yokohama-kō) is operated by the Port and Harbor Bureau of the City of Yokohama in Japan. It opens onto Tokyo Bay . The port is located at a latitude of 35.27–00°N and a longitude of 139.38–46°E.
Soon after the Port of Yokohama opened for foreign trade in 1859, the site of Harbor View Park was the location of the British Consul’s Residence. Between 1862 and 1875 the location also served as part of the camp for the British military garrison.
Yokohama is the world's 31st largest seaport in terms of total cargo volume, at 121,326 freight tons as of 2011, and is ranked 37th in terms of TEUs (Twenty-foot equivalent units). [ 27 ] In 2013, APM Terminals Yokohama facility was recognized as the most productive container terminal in the world averaging 163 crane moves per hour, per ship ...
While many other urban centers have built over their past in the rush to modernize, Yokohama has gone to great lengths to preserve its history as the port that opened Japan up to the outside world ...
The newly reconstructed passenger terminal is named the Yokohama International Passenger Terminal, designed by Foreign Office Architects (Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Farshid Moussavi), the pier was the subject of a major international design competition attracting over 660 entries. The new pier can accommodate up to four 30,000-ton class ships or ...
Pearl Harbor Graving dock No. 4 320 42.4 * [60] Devonport Naval Base: New Zealand: Devonport Calliope Dry-Dock 181.4 24.3 8.0 * [61] Lyttelton Port Company: New Zealand: Lyttelton Lyttelton Dry-Dock 137.15 18.8 5.8 * [62] National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (General Dynamics) United States of America
Much of Yokohama was destroyed on September 1, 1923, by the Great Kantō earthquake. [1] A Scotsman, Marshall Martin, advisor to Mayor Ariyoshi Chuichi, is credited with persuading the city government to use rubble from the Kannai commercial district to reclaim the former waterfront as a park. [2] Yamashita Park was formally opened on March 15 ...
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