Nippon Express currently provides daily high-velocity cross docking service from eighteen (18) points within the Asia Pacific region to U.S. points via the Nippon Express Container Freight Station (CFS) facilities in the Port of Los Angeles. With five departures bound for the U.S. per week from Tokyo, three departures per week from Osaka/Kobe, two each from Nagoya and Hong Kong, and weekly service from Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Port Kelang, Keelung, Pusan, Xiamen, Hochiminh, Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai and Singapore, a steady flow of LCL shipments steam into the Los Angeles Cross Dock CFS.

Upon consolidation overseas into FCL lots, color-coded barcodes are affixed to each carton or pallet of LCL freight, which serves to identify the destination CFS for final delivery of the shipment. This helps to speed the freight through Customs clearance and then onwards through the cross-dock operation, where shipments are staged for delivery via high-speed motor carrier service with sleeper teams to the destination CFS.

An increasingly attractive DC-Bypass option gives shippers the ability to have the freight moved from the Los Angeles CFS cross-dock operation direct to store locations or other end user sites via sleeper team service, thereby eliminating additional interim stops at CFS locations or retailer distribution centers and shortening the supply chain.

This high-velocity supply chain offers OEM and other manufacturers in Asia Pacific attractive new rapid access to both new and established markets in the U.S. and beyond while providing U.S. trading companies with a high-speed supply chain alternative. Whether seeking to meet unanticipated demand spikes created by market forces or to obtain additional inventory in time for planned product promotions or specialty events, the high-velocity option gives shippers and receivers an additional logistics tool to help maximize the efficiency of the supply chain.

Throughout its journey, each shipment moving within Nippon Express USA Arrow International GNS service can be tracked and traced through its ocean tracking system. To smooth the movement of shipments through customs clearance, customers can use the Nippon Express Worldwide Information Network (NEWINS). NEWINS facilitates the automatic classification and summarization of invoice data into customs entries.