Matsuyama, the distribution center of Ehime

With access by land, sea and air, the Matsuyama area is a strategic transportation hub for Shikoku Island. The seaport and airport are adjacent to each other and a railway line runs nearby. There are regular cargo routes from the seaport and the airport handles both domestic and international flights.

Within Shikoku, roads are being developed. Expressways have been extended and a bridge connecting Shikoku Island to the main island of Honshu has been completed (Shimanami Kaido).

Because of the improvement in infrastructure, it is expected that Matsuyama region will become the physical distribution base within Shikoku or the West Seto region in the future.

In the Matsuyama region, an active industrial area includes factories that manufacture chemical, mechanical, forestry and food products and forms an integrated business area.

Item Ehime (Ehime world Trade Center)

"Item Ehime (Ehime world Trade Center)", opened in 1996, is a convention facility including one of the largest exhibition hall in the Chugoku & Shikoku districts, a products & sightseeing center which provides for sales of prefectural special products and information on industries, an imports store, and the offices of overseas governments, business, and domestic trade related organizations.

This facility is widely utilized as an international industrial exchange base for industry, economy and culture linking Ehime and foreign countries.

I-LOT

"I-LOT (Ehime International Logistics Terminal)", opened in January 1996, is the distribution bases facility which has several functions from the unloading of freight dispersal of goods, custody, exhibition, final assembly, and classification, to distribution to the market.

These facilities are designated as a comprehensive bonded area.