TNT Express has opened a new international gateway at Japan’s Osaka Kansai International Airportshortening the transit time for deliveries from China to Osaka by one day and also speeding up
deliveries from Vietnam to the key Japanese economic region.The TNT International Gateway in Osaka Kansai will strengthen the express service capabilityof TNT’s Northeast Asian International Express Network and customers will now be able to make useof the one-stop comprehensive express delivery service between China and Osaka, one of Japan’s keymanufacturing hubs, in the shortest possible time.
Consignments, leaving Shanghai and other Chinese coastal cities, can now be delivereddirectly to Osaka Kansai. This time saving is crucial for TNT’s customers mainly in the electronicsand apparel/ textile industries, where time-critical deliveries remain one of its most importantcompetitive advantages, TNT said in a statement.
Marie-Christine Lombard, Group Managing Director of TNT’s Express division, commented: “I amreally excited about the opening of the TNT International Gateway in Kansai as it will boost ourservice capabilities to our customers especially those in the electronics and apparel/ textileindustries. TNT’s expansion in the region continues to be driven by the needs of our customers,which often work under severe time-to-market conditions. By shortening transit times to Kansai byone day, TNT will be best placed to support them in minimising their time-to-market process. Thisis definitely a new growth sector for both TNT in China and Japan.”
TNT says that its operations in Kansai International Airport will place the company in a goodposition to facilitate the growing trade and business flows between China and Japan and willprovide businesses in these regions with comprehensive, reliable and time-definite deliveryservices.
Since 2007, China has been Japan’s biggest trading partner while Japan continues to be one ofthe top trading partners of China. Based on figures released by the Japanese Finance Ministry in2007, the two-way trade between China and Japan has shot up 10% to US$214 billion. At thesame time, Vietnam which has been poised as one of Asia’s key manufacturing economies and is one ofthe fastest growing exporting countries to Japan in Asia, will also benefit from the shortenedtransit times to Osaka Kansai.
