Sei Sueharal, Executive Vice President of ANA Cargo. ANA, will next month start carrying e-commerce packages from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to Okayama Airport. Japan faces a growing shortage of truck drivers, so aircraft and bullet train operators are offering new services to handle parcel deliveries.
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SDCA
Seems inefficient to use bullet trains and airplanes but I guess we do need a temporary solution for the time being before we are able to have some form of long term solution.
kohakuebisu
Is depot to depot the problem? Wouldn't parcels be a final mile issue?
This could actually be bad news because Japan has many small regional airports that gush red ink, some built for spurious reasons like air-freighting our oh so special apples. It would be wisest to close such airports down, not come up with further reasons to throw good money after bad.
coskuri
Why don't they go back to using boats as they did a few decades ago ?
99,999% of the parcels don't need to be delivered in half a day. The peachs can survive a night of ferry, particularly now that they have airconditionned containers.
They should suppress the flights but keep and maintain the trecks. After 3/11 , they had to bring tons and tons of supply by air, cargo planes from the South, then helicopters for last miles. Having many trecks where planes could land here and there is helpful. When one is damaged, the others can be used.
And ANA has too many pilots ? Make them drive trucks. It's like wingless planes that never take off.