Some ports in quake-hit Japan resume operations

TOKYO: Two batteries in a port affected by the earthquake in northern Japan have resumed their activities and several smaller ports are likely to reopen a few days later, a government official said Thursday.
Two docks at Seaport average size in the prefecture of Fukushima Onahama are now available for 30,000 ton ships, the official said.
Two smaller ports to the coast, Miyako in Iwate Prefecture and Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, to replace certain functions by the end of Thursday, although running programs are not yet fixed , the official added.
Handling Japanese ports as much as 7 percent of the country's industrial production was closed after an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 and the tsunami that may have killed more than 10,000 people, has hit northern Japan last week.
The government has sent large workboats for treating oil on water and has sent relief items such as power generators and construction machinery.
But the fleet can not access the port near the Soma plant nuclear Fukushima earthquake paralyzed due to high levels of radiation, but there is also an oil leak in the port.