Tsuruga Port

[1] From 1940 to 1941, about 6,000 Jewish refugees landed in Tsuruga via Vladivostok from the Siberian Railway with the "Visa of Life" issued by Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese deputy consul in Lithuania.[1] A coal-powered power station and cement factory are located immediately North of the New Port area, served by large bulk ships.A multi-purpose International Terminal and a new breakwater have been developed at Mariyama New Port to serve the increasing volume of container cargoes and related freight logistics activities.This multi-purpose International Terminal is designed to meet the logistics needs of The Fukui Prefecture and the adjacent regions of Kansai and Chubu, in relation to both their domestic and foreign trades; it has a deep water depth (14 meters).In the liquid bulk sector, a Liquefied Natural Gas – LNG – terminal has been envisaged for Tsuruga port for over ten years.