Azerbaijan, Japan ink memo on air cargo transportation

Nippon Express Holdings, Inc. has signed a memorandum with Silk Way West Airlines, a cargo airline in Azerbaijan, to further develop and promote cooperation in air cargo transport, Report informs referring to Nippon.

Silk Way West Airlines, established in 2012 and based in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been rapidly expanding its network to Narita Airport and other major airports in Asia as well as to Europe and the US.

The Nippon Express Group has positioned forwarding as one of its core businesses in the “Nippon Express Group Business Plan 2023: Dynamic Growth,” and it is vigorously pursuing initiatives in line with its growth strategies for the air forwarding business.

In this important year marking the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Nippon Express Group has concluded this memorandum with Silk Way West Airlines to provide solutions that optimize its customers' complexly changing supply chains and to help further deepen exchanges and develop economic activities between the two countries, all the while realizing the Nippon Express Group's long-term vision of becoming a logistics company with a strong presence in the global market.

Last year, Japanese global logistics company Nippon Express (China) Co Ltd (NX China), a company of the Nippon Express Holdings Inc group, launched a new intermodal service to transport goods from different parts of China across the Caspian Sea to Europe.

The service includes the transport of goods by rail from various points in China to Aktau, Kazakhstan, from there by ship across the Caspian Sea to Baku, Azerbaijan, and again by rail from Baku to Istanbul, Turkiye, where they are transhipped onto EU railways or trucks for delivery to Europe.