Shipping lines continue Japanese calls

The world’s biggest shipping
companies have decided
that there is no real threat of
radiation coming from the
wrecked nuclear power plant
in Japan and are continuing to
call at Japanese ports, reports
Bloomberg.
Having initially pulled out,
Hapag-Lloyd, the world’s
fourth biggest container
shipping line, has resumed
calls at Tokyo and Yokohama,
meaning that none of the
world’s 16 biggest container
carriers are avoiding the area
as some did at first.
Ships still shun a 20-mile
exclusion zone around the
Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, but
that is some 200 miles from
Tokyo.