Places we visited….
Kobe
Kobe was a regular call for Bank Line vessels
The ‘old’ ERNEBANK visited Kobe with bagged sugar for discharge
The Kobe, or Great Hanshin, earthquake struck in the pre-dawn hours of January 17, 1995, with a magnitude of 7.3 near the city of Kobe, about 350 km (210 miles) southwest of Tokyo. It killed more than 6,400 people. Damage was estimated at $100 billion.
