Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) is merging its two express holdings, OCS and Allex, tocreate a new ‘regional integrator’ that will offer door-to-door services using ANA airlift
capacity.Overseas Courier Service (OCS) and All Express (Allex) will merge as of August 1 under thewell-established OCS brand, ANA announced. The new company will benefit from the experience of OCSand the sales network of Allex to leverage their respective strengths and thus expand their shareof the region’s international express market. The new OCS will also strengthen ANA’scompetitiveness ahead of the opening of the airline’s new cargo hub on Okinawa which is scheduledfor October.
OCS was set up by Japanese newspaper groups in 1957 to provide international distributionservices and over the years expanded to key markets around the world with branches and partnercompanies. Earlier this year ANA bought a 34.5% stake in the company, which has some 350 employeesand about 70 million international parcels a year.
OCS and ANA had already launched a joint door-to-door delivery service called BEAM in July2007 to provide high-speed, high-quality and reliable international deliveries, primarily betweenJapan and China through ANA’s freighter network for air transportation and OCS’s collection andcustoms clearance network.
Allex is a small express parcel delivery service that was launched in 2008 as a venturebetween ANA (36.38%) and freight forwarders Nippon Express and Kintetsu World Express to take onthe express market dominance of the integrators on the major trade lanes to and from Japan. Thecompany, with about 35 employees, provides next-day deliveries to neighbouring Asian countriesusing ANA airlift capacity.
