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S-NET FREIGHT BEGINS OWN OPERATIONS IN JAPAN

 

SINGAPORE, February 2002 – Asia’s own homegrown, global freight transportation company, S-Net Freight, has officially begun its own operations in Japan as of 1 February 2002.  S-Net Freight Japan Co, Ltd, is based in Tokyo and is headed by Japanese freight veteran, Hironaka Terunuma. 

The company’s launch in Japan was officiated by S-Net Freight (Holdings) chief executive officer, Cyril Rodrigo.

At the ceremony, he said, “It was our vision to set up a strong and non-fragmented Asian freight company as a response to a market long dominated by foreign MNCs.  Today, we fit in a very essential piece of this network – Japan.  As one of the world’s major economies, Japan abounds with great opportunities for our company.”

Said Terunuma, “The speed with which S-Net was set up and became operational in Japan demonstrates the eagerness and commitment from our staff.  S-Net Japan, together with the entire company, aims to be a global player.”

S-Net Japan is staffed by experienced freight professionals and handles freight transportation, import and export brokerage, and transshipment for air and ocean.  It will also provide logistics and warehousing services.

Conceptualised and founded by long-time key players in the regional freight fraternity, S-Net is an innovative, “new economy” freight service provider, backed by the solid reputation of its veteran freight executives.  S-Net provides global air and ocean freight transportation, logistics management and customs brokerage services for business-to-business shipments, all through a modern Web-based system.

The key to S-Net’s competitive edge in providing freight solutions to its customers, SWIFTÔ (S-Net Web-based Information Technology) is S-Net’s web-based, platform-independent, integrated enterprise application.  A nimble, flexible, “plug and play” system, SWIFTÔ is designed to meet every transportation, warehousing and distribution requirement, from customer management, to operations, to accounts and human resources.  S-Net’s customers have complete, easy-to-use and real-time control of their transportation and logistics activities, through any Web browser, from anywhere in the world.

S-Net is further strengthened by its partner, Singapore Post, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Asia's leading communications company, SingTel.  Together, Singapore Post and S-Net are building a strong regional logistics network to provide customers with a one-stop solution to their warehousing and transportation needs. 

Headquartered in Singapore, S-Net has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Germany, as well as "best in class" partners in the Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and the Middle East.

 

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For more information, contact Peter Lim at (65) 6541 1111

e-mail: peter.lim@s-netglobal.com

or visit

www.s-netglobal.com

 

                                                 

(February 2002)