Hilo Inland Port
The Hilo Inland Port links both the inland waterways and the canal systems of the Eastern Desert province and of Nejiro. It is the largest inland port in the world transporting millions of containers a year (more than sixty eight million in 3067) on inland waterways barges, sea-going river vessels, as well as deep sea freight and container ships. The port is a key node in Nejiro's multi-modal logistics network and enables the sustainable transport of consumer and industrial goods. More than fifty thousand ships make call at the port annually. The public harbor facilities stretch across more than eighteen square kilometers and there are forty two docks covering an area of more than four square kilometers with eighty kilometers of wharf. The logistics center site stretches across an additional three square kilometers and employs more than forty five thousand people. The deep sea container facility is another six square kilometers with six berths, it comprises a semi-automated deep sea container terminal with twenty five quay cranes, warehousing, distribution facilities, and ancillary logistics services. The cruise ship terminal facilitates the operations of several major cruise lines, it handles well over three million passengers and over seven million tonnes of cargo from more than one thousand ships docked per annum. The cruise terminal also offers a variety of tourist attractions such as dining, engineered shorelines and beaches, a boardwalk, excursions, and the Tower Explore landmark, a seven story building resembling a ships mast and sail under wind and includes a natural history museum telling the stories of the area (sunken ships and local legends) and offers education about the waterways and its habitats and the history of the port itself, it also offers fine views of the area from the observation deck at the top of the tower. The Hilo Inland Port additionally comprises over seventy independently owned terminals and port facilities directly employing over thirty thousand people. The Hilo Inland Port also handle more than fifty million tonnes of intra-port traffic marking it the busiest inland waterway on Nejiro. Rail access to the port terminals is via a connection to the Port Loop on the Southend Line on a daily basis, and on site more than thirty kilometers of double track access accommodate trains up to thirty five wagons long which are loaded/unloaded next to the port container handling areas by rail mounted gantry cranes.
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