Nippon Express USA de Tijuana opens Monterrey Office

Nippon Express USA de Tijuana S.A. de C.V. (Hideshi Hase, President), a company owned by Nippon Express U.S.A., Inc. (Kenryo Senda, President), itself a subsidiary of Nippon Express Co., Ltd. (Masanori Kawai, President), opened a new business location on May 19 in Monterrey, Mexico.

Situated in northern Mexico near the US border, Monterrey is Mexico's third largest industrial city and as such has attracted numerous Japanese automobile companies and other manufacturers. This has led to a tremendous expansion in the volume of cargo handled in the area.

In 2006 Nippon Express U.S.A. established Nippon Express USA de Tijuana (“NE Tijuana") in Tijuana, Mexico, registering that company with the Services IMMEX Program* in 2007. NE Tijuana's principal operations involve the import of raw materials and parts/components from Japan, Asia and other sources, the storage of finished and semi-finished goods, and distribution processing.

NE Tijuana has now opened an office in Monterrey, registered it with the Services IMMEX Program, and utilized this program to develop its own door-to-door bonded transport system from Laredo, Texas on the US border to Monterrey via a twice-weekly shuttle truck service. The transport of goods bound for Monterrey that used to stop on the US side of the border has thus been improved and the lead time substantially reduced.

The Monterrey Office has its own warehouse capable of handling long-term storage under the IMMEX program that, equipped with REWARDS (Nippon Express's proprietary warehouse management information system), will provide customers with Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Just-in-Time (JIT) delivery and other high-quality logistics services.

The Nippon Express Group has now grown to seven locations in Mexico: five offices (Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Manzanillo, and Aguascalientes) established by Nippon Express de Mexico S.A. de C.V., and NE Tijuana's two offices in Tijuana and Monterrey.

(*) Services IMMEX Program
A program that provides transport and warehouse storage services for raw materials and parts/components imported on a duty-free basis for the production of goods in Mexico to be subsequently exported