Businessweek :: The world’s biggest oil-tanker firms, dry bulk carriers and container lines are servicing Japanese ports, judging there to be no threat to vessels or crew from radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant. Hapag-Lloyd AG, the world’s fourth-largest container shipping line, said today it would start calling again at the Ports of Tokyo and Yokohama, meaning that none of the world’s 16 biggest cargo-box carriers are routinely shunning the area. All vessels are avoiding a 30-kilometer (19 mile) exclusion zone imposed around the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, about 220 kilometers to the north of Tokyo.
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