Transportation / Mobility

May 31, 2011

 

Sumitomo Promotes Modal Shift Utilizing Coastal Container Ships

Keywords: Climate Change Non-manufacturing industry Transportation / Mobility 

JFS/Sumitomo Promotes Modal Shift Utilizing Coastal Container Ships
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To promote modal shifts in transportation business by utilizing coastal container ships, Sumitomo Corporation, a major general trading company in Japan, announced on February 8, 2011, that it agreed to form an alliance with Imoto Lines , Ltd. , a leading domestic container ship operator, and Sumisho Global Logistics Co. (SGL),a Sumitomo subsidiary specialized in total logistics.

Naming the business service "Kaikon Bin Service," the three companies will promote widespread use of the service by consignor and logistics companies. The modal shift is a mode change of transport aiming to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) by shifting from automobile transport including trucks, to shipping or rail transport.

The business service intends to establish a new transportation mode for modal shift by combining a new type of freight containers mainly developed by SGJ, with domestic feeder service network as secondary domestic transport in international trading. Japan's total long-haul truck traffic (over 500 kilometers) amounts to 150 million tons per year, about 10 percent of which the three companies expect to be potential demand for the modal shift by 2020.

To achieve the target GHG reduction set by the Japanese government, it is necessary to reduce emissions in the transportation sector including cars and aircraft, which accounted for 19 percent of Japan's total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in FY2008.

Posted: 2011/05/31 06:00:15 AM

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Reference

Promotion of modal shift utilizing coastal container ships
http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/english/news/
2011/20110208_023851.html


 

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