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In November 1993, the Transport Council was consulted about "Measures
provided by the Supplementary Regulation Article 52 of the Freight Handling
Business Law" and "Measures to raise efficiency of local physical distribution".
As a result of the deliberations, a report was submitted on March 16, 1994,
stating that the Freight Forwarding Business Law was being enforced properly
and the basic framework of the law should be maintained but that new services
should be developed and the items requiring Government approval should be further
reduced. Regarding the measures for streamlining local physical distribution,
the report stated that a joint collection and delivery system should be established
and that measures should also be taken to improve the local environment by providing
space reserved for parking or stopping cars, and handling freight.
The Ministry of Transport is promoting the necessary measures based on the
report submitted by the council. To streamline local physical distribution,
for example, the Ministry is constructing a system for making physical distribution
more efficient by establishing a council composed of the parties concerned in
each area. Especially, in Tenjin area in Fukuoka City, a new entity was established,
which was backed by the local transport companies and consignors, following
the report submitted by the "Council for Promoting Physical Distribution Measures
in Tenjin Area". Thus, joint collection and delivery business started in September
1994.
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