Press Release

Nippon Express launches BCP-compatible Truck & Sea transport services from Thailand to Japan

November 17, 2020

-- “NEX OCEAN-SOLUTION XROSS BORDER Direct” --

Nippon Express (South Asia & Oceania) Pte. Ltd. (Shinjiro Takezoe, President), a local subsidiary of Nippon Express Co., Ltd. (Mitsuru Saito, President), on Tuesday, November 17 began sales of "NEX OCEAN-SOLUTION XROSS BORDER Direct" BCP-compatible transport services that combine truck transport with maritime transport.

[Service overview]

• Service from Thailand via Port Klang, Malaysia
  This service combines cross-border truck transport from Thailand to Port Klang, Malaysia with maritime transport from Port Klang to major ports in Japan. The lead time from Bangkok to Tokyo Port is as short as 16 days.
• Service from Thailand via Singapore
  This service combines cross-border truck transport from Thailand to Singapore with maritime transport from Singapore to major ports in Japan. The lead time from Bangkok to Tokyo Port is as short as 14 days.

[Service features]

• These services provide high-quality seamless transport by the Nippon Express Group from origin to destination.
• House waybills issued by Nippon Express help assure customers by clearly stipulating Nippon Express's responsibility for door-to-door transport.
• These multi-modal transport services combine truck transport with maritime transport instead of relying on maritime transport alone.

[Background to development]
Ocean cargo shipments from Southeast Asia continue to be plagued by shortages of vessel space and available containers, resulting in transport being delayed and forwarders being unable to accept cargo consignments. With cargo from Thailand being particularly impacted, these transport services were developed using cross-border trucking to secure transport routes to Japan and other countries by diversifying traffic to Port Klang and Singapore.

[Future plans]
Nippon Express will continue working on new transport products tailored to environmental changes in the South Asia & Oceania Region.

Nippon Express is committed to leveraging its comprehensive capabilities to develop new transport products that meet customers' logistics needs by combining various transport modes.