We provide total logistics services meeting the growing diversity and complexity of logistics needs —including ocean and air cargo freight, buyer's consolidation services (at the request of cargo owners, arranging to consolidate and ship cargoes from multiple owners), warehousing and truck transportation—by consolidating the know-how and broad experience of all members of the "K" Line Group.
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The freight forwarding and harbor transportation business is positioned as a growth field in our new medium-term management plan, "K" LINE Vision 100—New Challenges. "K" Line is consolidating the expertise and services of various group companies accumulated through marine transport and related businesses and developing comprehensive logistics services including the provision of logistics solutions, in order to respond accurately to increasingly advanced and diverse customer logistics needs.
"K" Line Logistics, Ltd. (KLL), Air Tiger Express (ATE) and Century Distribution Systems (CDS) are at the center of our international logistics business, which forms the key to meeting logistics demand in rapidly-growing Asian markets. We are expanding comprehensive logistics services with strong local ties including automotive logistics in Southeast Asia and China.
Of the three core businesses in the international logistics business, Japan-based KLL has a strong marketing base with Japanese customers, particularly in the air and marine forwarding segments, and is expanding its network in Asia in response to the shift by customers of production lines to Asia. In January of last year, "K" Line invested in US-based ATE, which has strong foundations in the comprehensive logistics business in the United States and Asia including China and plans to expand business in emerging economies in Asia and Latin America. US-based CDS is active in the buyers consolidation business and is working to expand its customer base by anticipating customer needs and proposing new services using the "K" Line Group's Visibility Management System (VMS), a logistics management system.
Other domestic and overseas group companies in the logistics business are working to expand existing business with a focus on overland transportation and warehousing.
The all-weather, elevated floor "K" Line Amata Nakorn Distribution Center in Thailand
A truck from Bangkok Maine Enterprises Ltd. (BME), a Thailand-based overland transportation company
A triple-decker motorcycle transport vehicle developed in Indonesia
A joint-venture bonded warehouse in Tientsin, China
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