Nippon Express becomes first Japanese company to open its own transshipment facility in Malaysia

Nippon Express (Malaysia) Co., Ltd. ("NE Malaysia"; Hideaki Shigematsu, President), a local subsidiary of Nippon Express Co., Ltd. (Masanori Kawai, President), on August 4 became the first Japanese logistics company in Malaysia to open its own transshipment facility: the Padang Besar Office.

Cargo shipped via the Oriental Land Bridge Express service connecting Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, part of Nippon Express' SS7000 cross-border ground transport service, must be transferred from Thai-registered trucks to Malaysian-registered trucks (and vice versa) on the Thailand-Malaysia border due to regulatory requirements in both countries. A local partner company had previously been carrying out these transshipments but, because it was also involved in transshipment operations for companies other than Nippon Express, waiting times and operational quality emerged as issues.

To resolve these problems satisfactorily, Nittsu Transport Service (M) Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of NE Malaysia, opened the Padang Besar Office as an operational facility for carrying out transshipment operations in-house. This is the first transshipment facility set up in Malaysia by a Japanese logistics company for its own exclusive use. Equipped with a 45-ton reach stacker, this office will transship in container units cargo already authorized for import/export between Thailand and Malaysia and expects to handle about 700 containers per month.

Automotive parts/components and household appliances account for much of the cargo transported by truck between Thailand and Malaysia, and demand for such transport is forecast to grow.

Nippon Express is committed to making continual improvements in transport quality to meet the diversifying and increasingly sophisticated logistics needs of its customers.