Foreign crews are reluctant to go to Tokyo Bay
* Shippers being obliged to use ships to the Japan
* Japan exec urges countries not steps to respond to the crisis
Randy Fabi and Harry Suhartono
(Singapore, April 13, Reuters) - foreign crew members remain reluctant to travel nearly quake-crippled nuclear power Japan, including some ports outside the exclusion zone, forcing shippers to use rather Japanese vessels to transport goods, executives of the industrysaid.
The shipping companies have been providing members of the crew travelling in the area of Tokyo Bay, located 240 km (150 miles) of the damaged nuclear complex the Fukushima, with special anti-radar costumes, Geiger counters and medicine.
This was despite daily insurance of the Department of transportation of the Japan that radiation levels in the region, which included major container ports, Tokyo and Yokohama, and the oil port of Chiba were at a level "very safe".
"The crews do not want to go there." Same Chiba, crews are not yet determined to go, "Kyuho Whang, CEO of SK Shipping South Korea, said to journalists at a Conference of the Singapore industry.
"If they rely more on Japanese ships that foreign ships."
Whang did not say which companies were forced to use Japanese ships.
NOT YET VERY WIDESPREAD
The use of vessels flying the Japanese flag was not yet very widespread, but a senior executive, who wished not to be named, it could become commonplace if more in more foreign, said shipping crews decided against travelling to the region.
"We had ships going to the Japan since the tsunami," said Morten Arntzen, President of the overseas Shipholding Group U.S. appearing on the list.
"The captain of the ship has full authority to say that we will not y and that authority will not second guessed.".
Japan limited marine traffic 30 km of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, 80 km while many shipping companies have imposed a minimum exclusion zone.
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