CompaniesLion, Unicharm, 8 other daily goods companies form alliance in Japan
Grand collaboration designed to transport goods amid truck driver shortage
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
July 19, 2023 18:54 JST
Updated on July 19, 2023 20:28 JST
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.