味の素グループは今後も物流領域において環境や人材に関する課題に向き合い、持続可能な物流体制を構築し、人・社会・地球のWell-beingに貢献していきます。 Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (President: Taro Fujie, Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo) has won the "Excellent Modal Shift Operator Award" (Collaboration Division) at the 2024 Modal Shift Excellent Business Operator Awards selected by the Japan Logistics Association, along with Ajinomoto Foods Co., Inc. (President: Toshiyuki Mochizuki, Headquarters: Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture) and F-LINE Co., Inc. (President: Jiro Sakamoto, Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo).
Excellent Modal Shift Business Operator Award
At the award ceremony
Our Logistics Planning Department Manager, Masako Mori (right)
This award is a system established by the Japan Logistics Association to publicly announce and honor excellent businesses engaged in modal shift initiatives, and the "Excellent Modal Shift Business Operator Award" (Collaboration Division) is granted to businesses that have achieved particularly outstanding results among those that have built a modal shift framework that widely combines cargo, transportation segments, transportation modes, etc., through the collaboration of shippers, logistics operators, and others.
In this award, the collaboration between our company, Ajinomoto Foods Co., Inc., and the logistics operator F-LINE Co., Inc., as well as shipping companies, has been recognized for achieving a complete modal shift in the main transport segment, contributing to solving the logistics issue of truck driver shortages and reducing environmental impact.
The Ajinomoto Group has been tackling issues such as driver shortages and environmental burdens in the logistics industry from an early stage, conducting modal shift activities to convert transportation methods of products from trucking and other automobile transportation to less environmentally burdensome methods such as railroads and marine transport. The modal shift rate for our national trunk transportation exceeding 500 km from April to September 2024 is about 97%.
In this initiative, the modal shift that the company has been promoting in the major transport section connecting the Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Kawasaki Plant and the company's Kawasaki Logistics Center (both in Kanagawa Prefecture) with the F-LINE Co., Ltd. Nishinomiya Logistics Center (Hyogo Prefecture) was also extended to shipments from Ajinomoto Co., Inc. By increasing the number of trains and ships, complete modal shift is expected to be achieved by April 2024, enabling Ajinomoto Co., Inc. to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 80% compared to the previous year.
Utilizing some trucking. | Shifting all to rail and maritime transport. |
The Ajinomoto Group will continue to face challenges related to the environment and human resources in the logistics sector, building a sustainable logistics system to contribute to the well-being of people, society, and the planet.
