Lion, Unicharm, 8 other daily goods companies form alliance in Japan

Grand collaboration designed to transport goods amid truck driver shortage

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Japan's consumer product makers will likely face a shortage of truckers when a regulation limiting drivers' overtime hours takes effect in April 2024. © Kyodo

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Lion, Unicharm and eight other of the largest makers and wholesalers of daily goods in Japan will join hands in a grand logistics alliance designed to reduce the long working hours of truck drivers and steal a march on a pending shortage of such drivers.

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