Press Release
June 28, 2023
SENKO Co., Ltd.
Tokyo Nohin Daiko Co., Ltd.

SENKO Recipient of Two Special Awards in the "24thLogistics Environment Award"- Strengthening initiatives for rolling out A-double trucks and EV trucks SENKO Co., Ltd. (Head office: Kita-ku, Osaka; President: Kenji Sugimoto; "SENKO") and Tokyo
Nohin Daiko Co., Ltd. (Head office: Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture; President: Hisashi Ogusa; “TokyoNohin Daiko”) have received two special awards of the "24th Logistics Environment Award" from theJapan Association for Logistics and Transport (Chairman: Junichiro Ikeda).
<Awards ceremony held on June 27>

Left photo. From left: SENKO Material Logistics Sales Headquarters, Housing Logistics Sales Division Manager Takao
Katamoto, Japan Association for Logistics and Transport Chairman Junichiro Ikeda (“Chairman Ikeda”), Asahi Kasei
Homes Logistics Department Manager Toru Hashi, Fujitec Senior Executive Officer and General Manager of Production
Hiroshi Maruyama
Right photo. From left: Chairman Ikeda, Tokyo Nohin Daiko Co., Ltd. President and Representative Director Hisashi Ogusa

These awards were established in June 2000, and are given to organizations or companies that
contributed to the development of the logistics industry by implementing superior environmental
conservation or awareness activities, or developing innovative technologies.
SENKO and Tokyo Nohin Daiko were recognized for two awards. The details of each award are asfollows.
(1) Introduction of dolly-type A-double trucks to promote decarbonization and laborsaving for longdistance transportation
SENKO reached an agreement for new modal shift operating proposals using dolly-type A-double trucks
developed with the cooperation of Asahi Kasei Homes Corporation (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo;
President: Fumitoshi Kawabata) and Fujitec Co., Ltd. (Head office: Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture;
President: Masayoshi Harada), and began operation of "A-double trucks" between the Kansai and Kanto
regions featuring joint mainline transportation and relay transportation for two cargo shippers in MarchPress Release2022.

Under this transportation system, cargo loaded separately onto two large trucks are coupled
together as an A-double trucks departs from SENKO logistics sites in Kansai (Amagasaki City) andKanto (Atsugi City). A single driver transports each truck over a long distance on expressways andother routes to a parking area with an A-double truck docking station (Hamamatsu Inasa IC), wherethe single drivers change trucks and drive them back to hubs where the trailers are uncoupled again(Amagasaki City and Atsugi City for this system).
The cargo is then separated into the large truck (front truck section) and semi-trailer (towed trailersection), and driven to separate delivery destinations. This system provides double the benefits, as it
helps to reduce driver working time as well as cut down on the amount of CO2 emissions.
(2) Reducing exhaust gas emissions with the introduction of EV trucks
Truck transportation accounts for the largest amount of CO2 emissions of Tokyo Nohin Daiko's
business activities, so the company focused on replacing all trucks to ones that meet Chiba
Prefecture's "diesel exhaust gas emissions regulations."
Partnering with cargo owners seeking initiatives related to environmental activities, and replacing
diesel trucks with EV trucks to facilitate the switchover to EV trucks used for deliveries fromwarehouses in Chiba Prefecture to customer stores throughout Tokyo, the company is contributing toa reduction in the amount of CO2 emissions. The introduced EV trucks feature hangar-rack bodies,
which helps prevent wrinkles in clothes and other cargo shipped in cardboard packaging andmaintaining a high-quality delivery service. The use of delivery methods that reduce the amount ofgenerated waste, such as avoiding the use of packaging other than plastic film, was also recognized
as an environmentally friendly approach to logistics.
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