Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Value beyond Logistics

Mitsui-Soko Group[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]MITSUI-SOKO HOLDINGS Co., Ltd.

Receives the Grand Prize
for the Excellent Business Entities Working on Modal Shift Awards 2022
In the program of the Japan Association for Logistics and Transport aimed at announcing andrewarding business entities actively involved in efforts to bring about modal shifts
The MITSUI-SOKO HOLDINGS Co., Ltd. (head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Hirobumi Koga, President & CEO;hereinafter the "Company," "we," or "our") is pleased to announce that the Company has received the Grand Prize
for the Excellent Business Entities Working on Modal Shift Awards 2022 from the Japan Association for Logistics
and Transport (JALoT).
This award scheme is intended to introduce to society at large exemplary efforts in the logistics industry made toreduce environmental impact and improve the labor environment for truck drivers, raise industry-wide awarenessof these efforts, and further promote modal shifts. Our project, called "Modal Shift to Marine Transportation ofConstruction Machinery," which was entered in the New Development Category, received the Grand Prize, thehighest award, from among 16 entries submitted by 13 companies.
This project was implemented and achieved jointly by 3 companies of the MITSUI-SOKO Group: the Company;
MITSUI-SOKO Co., Ltd. (head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Takanobu Kubo); and MITSUI-SOKO
Kyushu Co., Ltd. (head office: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture; President: Atsushi Shigemura).
[Overview of the Project]
A construction machinery manufacturer, one of our Group's customers, ships their machinery from their factory inFukuoka to locations all over Japan. They were, however, concerned about the continuation of stabletransportation services in the future, especially in the long distance, such as to Hokkaido, not only because of theneed to reduce CO2 emissions, but also because of the limited number of truck types and drivers suitable for thisspecific purpose.
In this project, we made various arrangements for their overall transportation scheme and established a system inwhich a driver drives a truck and loads and unloads the machinery, which is difficult to load into an ordinary
container or wing trailer due to its weight and height, to a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ship twice at each port. Inaddition, we implemented lashing (cargo fixing) according to the type of machinery and obtained cooperationfrom the customer in adjusting transportation order units, thereby having succeeded in modal shifting more than
90% of the entire transportation process to sea transportation.
[Effects of the Project]Reduced CO2 emissions by 56.8 tons (69.7%) per year compared to truck transportation

Reduced truck drivers' hours spent behind the wheel by 928 hours (76.2%)

Through the development of the MITSUI-SOKO SustainaLink service, which supports the creation of sustainablesupply chains for our customers, the Group will continue to provide various solutions to contribute to theimprovement and evolution of sustainability in logistics as a whole from the perspective of making our customers'
supply chains even more sustainable.
For inquiries regarding this matter:
MITSUI-SOKO HOLDINGS Co., Ltd.
Public Relations Team, Strategic Planning Division
TEL: +81-3-6400-8017 / EMAIL: kouhou@mitsui-soko.co.jp

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