Japan's Mitsui to begin self-driving truck transport business

Trading house, Preferred Networks aim for level-4 technology by 2026

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Advances in autonomous driving technology could help ease Japan's chronic labor shortage in the logistics industry. (Source photo by Reuters)

TATSURO MIYAZUMI and TATSUO MATSUURA, Nikkei staff writers

November 14, 2022 18:28 JST

TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. will launch a logistics business using self-driving trucks as early as 2026, Nikkei has learned.

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