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.