Nippon Express 1st in industry to offer high-quality transport from Shanghai Pudong Airport to Narita Airport
"Quality + Shanghai" integrated ULD intact service launched

In October 2008 Nippon Express Co., Ltd. (Masanori Kawai, President) began sales of "Quality + (Quality Plus) Shanghai", the industry's first ULD intact service from Shanghai's Pudong Airport to Tokyo's Narita Airport.

Cargo shipped via the "Quality + Shanghai" service is placed in unit load devices (ULDs; airline containers) by Nippon Express (China) Co., Ltd. ("NE China"), a local subsidiary of Nippon Express Co., Ltd., in the cargo agents area of the Shanghai Pudong Airport; the ULDs are then loaded intact aboard aircraft bound for Narita Airport, where they will be broken down at Nippon Express' bonded warehouse.

This approach enables Nippon Express to reduce the number of times cargo is ordinarily handled by 25%, and to ensure high-quality transport with little damage by utilizing Nippon Express staff for all loading and unloading processes.

Unlike intact ULDs arriving in Japan from other countries, ULDs arriving from Shanghai comprise multiple airline AWBs (MAWBs) for export procedural reasons. Accordingly, ULDs originating in Shanghai previously had to be broken down in the airport's joint shed after arrival in Japan. With revisions to import procedures in Japan and the availability of ULD onboard cargo information from NE China, however, ULDs can now be conveyed intact to Nippon Express' own bonded shed. In future, Nippon Express plans to provide similar services at Kansai International Airport and other airports.

In November 2007 Nippon Express began sales of its "Hongqiao Express" consolidated air cargo service from China to Japan, taking quick advantage of the start of flights between Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and Haneda Airport, and is already offering intact service between Hongqiao and Haneda. This is yet another example of Nippon Express' ongoing efforts to expand and enhance its transport products on routes between China and Japan, and the company is committed to providing an even wider range of transport products and improving its service to meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of customers.