Nippon Steel Resumes Ocean Shipment from Kamaishi

Nippon Steel resumed steel ocean shipment from Kamaishi works on Sunday. The firm shipped 1,600 tonnes of wire rod for western Japan from public port facilities when the works cannot use own port facilities due to damage by the major tsunami. The firm resumed billet accepting on Friday. The firm tries to normalize the logistics functions gradually for normal operation.

Nippon Steel resumed rolling with stocked billet at Kamaishi works on April 13. The firm utilizes ocean transport to for long distance delivery when the firm confirmed availability of ship booking and public port facilities while the firm had shipped the product only by land transport through Saturday.

Nippon Steel accepted 1,700 tonnes of billet at Kamaishi works from Kimitsu works on Friday when public port facilities became available. The firm would resume independent power producing at Kamaishi in early July. The works is recovering normal operations in many aspects.