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A Study of Logistics in the ASEAN region（Report No.115）
Summary
In recent years, Japanese manufacturers and retailers have accelerated expansion into the ASEAN region, for the purpose of acquisition of global competitiveness and entry into the overseas expanding consumer market. With the inauguration of the ASEAN Economic Community, which is scheduled for 2015, an increase in investment in the ASEAN region and reconstruction of the supply chain due to the elimination of tariffs are expected.
In this situation, Japanese logistics companies have to consider expanding into overseas market, especially into the ASEAN region, assessing issues of business and trends of competitors, shippers and so on.
This study intends to provide useful informations to Japanese logistics companies when considering the advance into ASEAN region, especially into Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, which are expected to advance the construction of the supply chain in future.
Summary of this study are as follows.
Organizing the current state of the supply chain in the ASEAN region, we predicted freight flow of the future in the ASEAN region. In addition, we organized countermeasures and bottlenecks in the business operations of Japanese logistics companies, based on the document searches and the interviews to the logistics companies, that have already operated in the ASEAN region.
Based on the findings, we organized the informations that contribute to the decision-making of Japanese logistics companies that attempt to expand into the ASEAN region in the future.
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