NARITA, Chiba — Major Japanese delivery firm Yamato Holdings Co. will launch home cargo flights in April 2024 in cooperation with the Japan Airlines group to deal with the looming labor scarcity within the logistics trade.
Yamato Holdings and the Japan Airlines group unveiled an Airbus A321-200P2F cargo plane, which is scheduled to begin transportation in spring, at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, on Nov. 20.
The most payload is 28 metric tons, equal to the full freight of 5 to 6 10-ton vehicles. Yamato Holdings is planning to introduce three planes and fly a complete of 9 every day flights between Narita and New Chitose, Kitakyushu and Naha airports, and between Naha and Kitakyushu airports from April 11.
The firm additionally intends to open extra routes in summer time 2024 on which cargo jets take off and land at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport late at evening and early within the morning, bringing the full variety of flights to 13 per day, with plans to finally improve the variety of every day flights to 21.
Yamato Transport Co. govt officer Tatsuya Suzuki defined the importance of the plan, commenting, “The quantity of cargo we deal with is anticipated to proceed to develop, making it troublesome to offer secure transportation. This will not be an issue that may be solved solely by devoted cargo planes; it is very important mix planes with vehicles, trains and ferries. Cargo planes will deal with specific parcel deliveries.”
The plane’s physique is grey with the black and yellow image of a father or mother cat holding a kitten in its mouth on the entrance of each side, and the silhouette of a father or mother cat’s and kitten’s face on the tail. The Japan Airlines group might be answerable for plane upkeep and cargo unloading, and low-cost provider Spring Japan Co. will function the flights.
The Yamato group is introducing its first devoted cargo plane in response to the “2024 downside,” a scarcity of truck drivers on account of a rise within the quantity of cargo dealt with and stricter laws on time beyond regulation work.
(Japanese unique and video by Tadakazu Nakamura, Narita Bureau)
