Ceva Logistics has launched a Less than Truck Load (LTL) cross-border road trucking servicebetween China and Singapore competing with similar services offered by TNT, DHL, Kerry and other
express and freight operators.The LTL service will start operating on three initial cross-border lanes from Shenzhen (China)to Penang (Malaysia); from Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) to Shenzhen in China, and from Singapore to KualaLumpur (Malaysia). These lanes are heavily travelled routes and critical links in companies’ supplychains. Ceva intends to increase the number of LTL lanes over the next two years, includingShenzhen to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok.
The new service will enhance Ceva’s existing cross-border road freight solution in Asia Pacificwhich runs from Singapore to China with an average of 500 trips each month for variousmultinational customers in the region. It provides an integrated and cost-effective option forcustomers who need to balance speed and timely shipments throughout Asia with Full Truck Load (FTL)services, Ceva said.
The new LTL services will leverage Ceva’s established FTL regional network offering a widerrange of services and greater choice between LTL and FTL for faster response and deliverytimes.
Norm Mummery, Senior Vice President, Regional Operations, at Ceva Asia Pacific, said: “We arevery pleased with the success we have had since launching our cross-border Roadfreight solutionlast year. Our integrated Roadfreight services are now further enhanced to meet our customers’varying needs with the addition of the LTL offering. Intra-Asia freight movements continue to be arising trend in line with the economic growth in the region and Ceva’s local expertise enable us todeliver greater value to our customers, offering reliability, speed, the highest security standardsand world-class Freight Management systems and processes.”
With a presence in over 170 countries, Ceva Logistics employs 51,000 staff generating €6.9billion in revenues in 2011.
The new service follows similar launches several freight and express operators in recent years.TNT’s Asia Road Network, launched in 2005, stretches from southern China to Singapore, coveringseven countries (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China). DHL offers roadtransport services in Southeast Asia through both Global Forwarding and Express.
Other important operators in the Asian road freight market include Kerry Logistics, NipponExpress and Schenker. However, the Asia road freight market remains highly fragmented with a smallnumber of international companies and many local firms operating only on selected trade lanes.
