To ease the burden on delivery firms by reducing unnecessary redeliveries, the environment and transport ministries plan to expand their budgets substantially to encourage the installation of parcel lockers in suburbs and rural areas, informed sources said. For fiscal 2018 starting next April, the ministries ...
Cardboard box makers in Japan are coming up with innovative designs to ameliorate corporate labor shortages and to improve delivery efficiency. Market leader Rengo Co. is displaying such products at its showroom in Saitama Prefecture, including boxes that are easily opened and double as actual ...
As the country grapples with a growing labor shortage, Tokyo-based venture ZMP Inc. may begin field-testing the self-driving CarriRo Delivery robot soon as an alternative to aerial delivery drones.
Leading parcel delivery provider Yamato Holdings Co. is aiming to hire about 9,200 new workers in the current year through next March to reduce overtime among delivery personnel, company sources said Wednesday. The sharp increase over the previous year will lead to substantially greater personnel ...
Leading delivery firm Yamato hikes prices to deal with a chronic staff shortage and poor working conditions tied to the online shopping boom.
Yamato Transport Co., Japan's leading door-to-door courier firm, is considering withdrawing from its same-day delivery service for Amazon.com Inc. to reduce the heavy workload on its drivers, sources close to the matter said Friday. The online retail giant offers the service to customers who pay ...
Yamato Transport Co., the nation's leading door-to-door parcel delivery provider, plans to raise its base shipping fees by the end of September.
A new type of driving license has been created at the request of the trucking industry, which wants more young drivers amid labor shortages and an aging workforce. Under the revised Road Traffic Law, which came into force on Sunday, a new license category for ...
Major courier firm Yamato Transport Co. hopes to implement measures to ease the burden on delivery drivers and improve their working conditions.
The rise of online retailers has led to a race to the bottom for home delivery firms desperate to hold on to the huge amount of business these shopping sites provide.
The Mie Prefectural Police arrested a truck driver from Iga on Thursday on suspicion of threatening a delivery firm employee with a chain saw. The police said Kazuki Hasegawa, 27, posted a YouTube video of him threatening an employee at Yamato Transport Co.'s delivery center ...
A city near Tokyo has joined hands with the central government and other partners to commercialize a drone-based delivery service it calls "the first step of an industrial revolution in the air." "We want to get a head start in the building of a future-oriented ...
