Nippon Cargo Airlines
As the demand for passenger ships dwindled in the 1960s, NYK expanded its cargo operation, running Japan's first container ship "Hakone Maru" on a route to California in 1968 and soon establishing container ship routes to many other ports. NYK became a partner in Nippon Cargo Airlines in 1978, and in 1985, added United States container train service in cooperation with Southern Pacific.