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Overnight freight service taking off.

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire

| May 21, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From International Herald Tribune (Herald Asahi))

Shipping by air costs scads more than by land, but customers are willing to pay to get their deliveries in a jiffy. The Asahi Shimbun KAWASOE, Saga Prefecture-Reined in by speeding restrictions imposed on their truck fleets, transport companies are turning to midnight air freight services

The new air deliveries are not cheap: Sending a package from the southernmost main island of Kyushu to Tokyo or its neighboring prefectures can cost between 30-100 percent more than conventional land transport

But judging from the late-night activity at Saga airport, the guarantee of faster delivery is something …

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