News / Nippon Express launches intermodal US export service to Asia via Mexico

Nippon Express warehouse in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Credit: Nippon Express.

Japanese logistics group Nippon Express has developed an intermodal service for US exports to Asia, via Mexico, at the request of customers frustrated by long lead times due to domestic port congestion.

The service involves moving containerised freight on trailers from the US west coast to Nippon Express’s warehouse in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and then shipping from Manzanillo Port to Asia.

Nippon Express claimed the intermodal service offered shippers a dependable lead time – for example, moving a container from Chicago to ...