Japanese Firm Plans to Build Terminal at Port
Mayor Tom Bradley announced Monday that a major Japanese shipping firm has agreed to build a container terminal at the Port of Los Angeles.
Bradley, who is on an 11-day trade mission in the Far East, met Monday in Tokyo with Kimio Miyaoka, president of Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line) and reached a basic agreement for the construction of the terminal for NYK’s exclusive use at the port.
The new facility, which will be NYK’s first exclusive-use terminal in America, is scheduled to be completed in 1991 on a 100-acre site at Terminal Island.
It is expected to be the largest such terminal operated by a Japanese firm in the United States and will be designed with a state-of-the-art computer, which NYK said would enable it to improve the quality of its service to the United States.
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