Kintetsu Express adds charters to deliver ASEAN auto parts to US

TOKYO -- Leading Japanese freight forwarder Kintetsu World Express has begun scheduled charter flights that carry freight from Southeast Asia to the U.S., betting that automobile production will pick up as the global chip shortage eases going forward.

Cargo from Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia is first brought to South Korea's Incheon airport and the Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates before flown to the Rickenbacker airport in the U.S. state of Ohio on KWE's chartered flights. The destination airport in the city of Columbus is relatively close to Chicago. The service, scheduled four times a week, started this month.