FAQ

About Nippon Express

Q1: When was your company established?
Q2: What does the “Express” in Nippon Express mean?
Q3: What services does your company offer?
Q4: What is your business strategy for the future?
Q5: How extensive is your overseas network?
Q6: How many affiliate companies do you have?
Q7: What is “modal shift”?
Q8: How many household/office removals do you handle?

Q1: When was your company established?

A: October 1, 1937; its predecessor was founded in 1872.

Q2: What does the “Express” in Nippon Express mean?

A: It refers to our integrated door-to-door handling of cargo forwarded by railway transport from the shipper to the recipient.

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Q3: What services does your company offer?

A: Our services extend across nearly the entire range of logistics, including motor freight transport, railway forwarding, marine transport, air freight forwarding, and warehousing.

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Q4: What is your business strategy for the future?

A: We will step up our efforts in international transport, one of our company’s strengths, as we aim to be a global logistics company with a high reputation for designing and proposing optimal logistics services that meet the supply chain and 3PL needs of customers expanding their businesses worldwide.
Please see here for further details.

Management Plan

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Q5: How extensive is your overseas network?

A: We have 382 business locations in 211 cities in 37 countries around the world, staffed 15,982 employees (as of March 31, 2009).
Please see here for further details.

World wide Nippon Express Companies

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Q6: How many affiliate companies do you have?

A: We have 289 subsidiaries and 66 overseas affiliate companies (as of March 31, 2009) engaged in forwarding, sales, and other operations both inside and outside Japan.

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Q7: What is “modal shift”?

A: Modal shift is a shift in transport modes to highly energy-efficient means such as railway or marine transport to avoid the adverse consequences of excessive reliance on truck transport. Our company is quite pro-active in this area as well.