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Outsourcing complicated customs procedures at the U.S./Mexican border as well as warehouse management
Requests from our customers
We want to outsource logistics operations, such as complicated customs procedures at the U.S./Mexican border, warehouse management, delivery, and inventory control.
Outline of Services
We provide total logistics services from transportation, customs clearance, storage and delivery to customers including Japanese manufacturers who own factories in the Maquiladora zone of Mexico and manufacture products there using the Maquiladora program*. We advanced into the zone ahead of other Japanese companies, and have offered this service from 1989.
Materials are transported from the U.S. to Mexico after customs clearance, and then, at a distribution center in Mexico, they undergo inspection, storage, sorting, and just-in-time (JIT) delivery to factories. The final products go through customs clearance once again and are delivered throughout the U.S.
*Maquiladora program: It is a program established in 1965 as an employment measure in the U.S./Mexican border zone. Companies are allowed, in the bonded processing zone called "maquiladora", to import materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing of products to be re-exported on the condition of gaining authorization from the government.
Key points of service
- We offered logistics management such as handling complicated customs clearance between the U.S. and Mexico, factory logistics, warehousing, domestic delivery in the U.S., and inventory control.
- We ran distribution centers in San Diego (U.S.A.), Tijuana, and Monterrey (Mexico).
- We offered services utilizing our IT-intensive networks all over the U.S.
