DHL launches multi-modal service linking China and Japan

By editor on Dec 6, 2011

DHL has launched a new multi-modal service operated by its Global Forwarding division between China and Japan.

 

The services is expected to cuts costs by up to 60% compared to air freight alone, and will reduce transit time by up to three days compared to solely using an ocean freight service. It also promises to emit up to 92% less CO2 compared to air freight. The China-Japan multi-modal service was made possible because DHL was recently licensed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to use railway for cargo transportation in Japan.

DHL's new China-Japan multimodal service comprises the use of ferries, rail and trucks carrying 12 ft containers. Goods are picked up from any location in China -- mainly Shanghai, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Wuxi, Nanjing, Hefei and Wuhan -- and brought to Shanghai by truck, taken across to Hakata in Japan by ferry and then transported across Japan via Japan Rail. In Japan, pick-up and delivery is done through Japan Rail - the country's most extensive rail network - and taken across to Shanghai by ferry, with final delivery to destinations in China done by truck.

Roger Crook, CEO, DHL Global Forwarding, Freight, said, "China and Japan are two of the world's largest economies and the China-Japan trade lane is among the top intra-regional trade lanes in the Asia Pacific region -- it constituted over 44% of intra-regional trade in 2010. Pioneering, innovative transport solutions such as this, offer our customers yet more flexibility with the reliability of the DHL service quality."

The 12 ft containers used in this service - smaller than the usual 20 and 40 ft containers - can be carried on all three modes of transport -- road, rail and ferry -- and handled at the majority of Japan rail freight terminals. This significantly cuts handling and transit time as well as the potential for damage to goods by eliminating the need to move goods from one type of container to another to correspond with each transport mode.

 

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