2011.4-2012.3 Yearbook of NILIM
Research Summary

Port and Harbor Department

Reference Number	Y110901
Title	Basic research on the expansion of international cargo database
Start-End Date	2009.4-2012.3
Division	Port Systems Division
Author	Head, Tomihiro WATANABE Researcher, Tomoko SASAKI Research Engineer, Shuichi GOTO
Summary	We examined recent trend of amount of trade, number of handling container in major ports, number of container according to size, hinterland of containerized cargo, route of ferry ships for developing port cargo database and port cargo model development. And we analyzed port cargo statistics and data for expanding port cargo database. Furthermore we tried to provide more visual output of the port cargo analysis for deepening the understanding of the port cargo situation.