Panalpina: Premiere of Intra Asia road service
New FTL/LTL service of Panalpina connects China on the road with economic centres in Southeast Asia:
The worldwide active transport and logistics group Panalpina expands its offering for transport services between China and Southeast Asia. In addition to air and ocean freight services, they offer a new product line involving road transport.
The Intra Asia road transport caters to both full-truck-load (FTL) and less-than-truck-load (LTL) shipments. It is connecting China, including Western China, with Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Value Added Services include customs clearance with on-site staff and close security monitoring.
Panalpina recommends the Intra Asia road transport for high-end products. As goods remain in the same sealed 40-foot or 45-foot container throughout the entire journey; only the trailers are exchanged. The door-to-door transit time is five to six days shorter than ocean freight, and the costs are 30 to 50 per cent lower than air freight. Plus, it is a more eco-friendly means of transportation than pure air freight, as the enterprise points out in a press release.
The daily LTL service from Shenzhen to Bangkok via Hanoi takes four days. “Apart from coastal cities the service covers a number of major cities in Western China such as Chengdu and Chongqing, where the entire market still struggles to find adequate capacity for air and ocean transport. Our trucking solution will come in very handy here”, said Andreas Wolff, Area Trade Lane Development Manager Intra Asia at Panalpina. Stefan Gustafsson, District Manager Yangtze & Bohai Bay, Panalpina Greater China. All trucks are equipped with GPS devices; video cameras are installed inside each container to survey the cargo.
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