TOKYO, Japan — Kintetsu World Express, a leading Japanese freight forwarder, has started flying freight from Southeast Asia to the United States on a regular basis, wagering that auto manufacturing will speed up as the worldwide chip crisis eases. Cargo from Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia is first transported to Incheon International Airport in South Korea and Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, before being flown to Rickenbacker International Airport in Ohio on KWE chartered aircraft. Columbus has a destination airport that is reasonably close to Chicago. The four-times-a-week service began earlier this month. KWE tested a similar service in March and received a lot of positive feedback. Other forwarders had previously offered charters from Southeast Asia as one-time services, resulting in ongoing transportation capacity problems. Global logistics remains unpredictable as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, which has grounded international passenger planes and caused delays in maritime trade. The expected increase in shipments of automotive materials will exacerbate the capacity shortage, and a KWE spokesperson predicted that “this problem will not be remedied very soon.”/n
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