In recent years, various government agencies in Japan, a major trading nation, have been deregulating transport-related regulations. The result is a steadily increasing volume of cargo that can be imported into Japan. With cargo transport arrangements becoming more complicated every year, there is now growing strong demand for door-to-door service and transport to/from third countries.

Also, customers have a wide variety of needs. Thus, IEC handles not only cargo transport, but also provides an all-inclusive service that embraces "third-party logistics," such as warehousing, inventory processing, goods inspection and specialized customer services. Furthermore, we ship the item you want at the time you want and in the volume you want. We know that in today's world customers are strongly focused on how to massively reduce the lead time between production and sales.

Since our founding, we have spent a half century developing the right kind of spirit and organizational basis for our distribution service. Even now we continue to make new innovations. As a full-service company, International Express Co.,Ltd. wants to add value to the highly treasured merchandise of our customers and provide a cargo service that is safe, accurate and speedy. Based on our 50 years of business experience, we offer a high-quality service that completely satisfies the needs of our customers.

IEC has a staff that is extremely knowledgeable in handling everything from perishable foods and textile products, to precision machinery and special event-related cargo. Our cargo transport plans are designed to meet the needs of our customers. The age when "air cargo is urgent but slow-moving ocean cargo is acceptable" is long gone. Today, the world is now used to the idea that "air cargo has to move even faster while ocean cargo, too, has to ship quickly." Our service seeks to maximize the advantages of air cargo transport. We process air cargo passing through Narita Airport or Kansai Airport on arrange for early morning and midnight customs clearance. In the case of ocean cargo, we try to reduce customs clearance time as much as possible to limit the differences with air cargo. Regardless of the type of cargo, we are set-up to provide a quick-response service.

Also, in regard to customs clearance using A.T.A.Carnet, duty-free and other kinds of special customs clearance procedures, our highly experienced staff can meet any customer's needs.

At International Express Co.,Ltd., we put our individual business, customs clearance and distribution company representatives to work analyzing the daily and even hourly changing needs of our customers. We make aggressive use of new kinds of business solutions, such as 3PL, as strategic tools to create additional advantages for our customers.

After 5PM on a Friday evening, a customer might have this request: "By tomorrow I want to send by air 300 cans of dangerous goods to Hong Kong." Many frequently used cargo shipping companies respond by saying, "impossible," citing an inability to pack or collect the goods on time or find an available flight. Even for our company, such a request is difficult, but we only have one response: "Please allow us to handle it." Working together as a team, our company employees do the work of collecting and packaging the materials, and then work through the night to find an available flight. In this way we are able to safely deliver goods on time. In our industry, companies that can operate like this to quickly handle difficult requests receive the highest appreciation from customers.

We handled the delivery of materials for television broadcasters, newspaper companies and communications companies along with a variety of other kinds of cargo on international sports events. Also, all across the world we deliver overseas broadcast, recording, data and other materials to our business customers working in the field of television broadcasting. For international exhibitions and famous overseas artists who come to Japan perform, we create project teams to handle every conceivable transport need related to the import and export of musical instruments, exhibition stage equipment, costume clothing and many other items. We are well aware that this kind of cargo can include precision machinery, expensive specialized materials or irreplaceable custom-made items. Consequently, we invest in operating a cargo shipping service that makes the most careful preparations possible to guard against delays, damage or any kind of accident during transport.

Currently, we operate 10 overseas business centers in six countries: the United Kingdom, China (Hong Kong and Shanghai) Taiwan, Vietnam (Hochiminh), Philippines (Manila). In other regions, we have tie-ups with local business partners to make possible a global distribution service. Based on the strength of an information network we have created to link together overseas business centers and local partners, we can back up the worldwide business needs of any of our customers.