Front line

March’s disasters prompted a number of shipping lines to divert calls from Japan. Photo C Eames US Marine Corps

Ports are the front line for any island nation; they are the gateway for both inbound goods and commodities and for potential revenue-earning exports. The series of recent natural disasters has put this dependence into stark perspective.

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