Pusan introduces port sales

Pusan Port is experiencing difficulties nowadays because of reduced cargoes. To rally business at Pusan Port's, related organizations (Pusan Regional Maritime Affairs & Fisheries Office, Korea Container Terminal Authority, Pusan Metropolitan City and Pusan Kyoungnam Main Customs), and related companies (container terminal enterprises: Pusan Newport Company and the Pusan Longshoremen's Union) launched a development plan. According to the plan, Pusan Port Sales Team was launched a port sales exhibition in Singapore on December 1st, Hong Kong on December 3rd, and Shenzhen in China on December 4th.
In the exhibition, foreign shipping company representatives from Asian head offices and leading shippers attended. Publicity work for Pusan New Port and information on the restoration of Pusan Port was given out while attendee's complaints about Pusan Port were gathered.
It is first time to launch a Pusan Port Sales Team, made of related organizations and companies, and hold a port sales exhibition overseas. It aimed to help get through Pusan Port's recent crisis caused by the KCWF's strike and typhoon Maemi.
"We hope this exhibition is effective. And we also expect that major shipping companies will return to Pusan Port," said a Pusan Regional Maritime Affairs & Fisheries Office officer.