Standardising warehouse operations and training personnel to handle hazardous goods
First written in FY2018. 21 of 26 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2019-Q2. Latest entry: FY2027-H1.
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- FY2027-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehouse business, operations in the Himeji area remained steady after prices for handling and storage of hazardous goods and steel products, a major cargo category, were revised. In the Osaka area, sales development leveraging bonded-warehouse functions led to the acquisition of new cargo, increasing the number of containers handled and producing strong results. In the Kobe area, handling of hazardous materials at the Hyogo Futo Logistics Center increased year on year, but revenue and profit from ordinary goods declined partly because a major customer reduced its handling volumes.」
Warehouse sales centered on high-value-added cargo advanced through price revisions for hazardous goods and steel products, the acquisition of new cargo using bonded-warehouse functions, and increased hazardous-materials handling at the Hyogo Futo Logistics Center. - FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「As capital investment, the Company expanded the temperature-controlled warehouse on the first floor of the Kobe Logistics Center and newly established the first ISO tank container depot in Rokko Island, an outdoor hazardous-materials storage facility, with the aim of increasing its handling of high-value-added cargo.」
The company advanced efforts to expand the handling of high-value-added cargo by expanding its temperature-controlled warehouse and establishing an ISO tank container depot. - FY2026-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「As capital investment, the Company expanded the temperature-controlled warehouse on the first floor of the Kobe Logistics Center and newly established the first ISO tank container depot in Rokko Island, an outdoor hazardous-materials storage facility, with the aim of increasing its handling of high-value-added cargo.」
To expand the handling of high-value-added cargo, the company expanded its temperature-controlled warehouse and established the first ISO tank container depot on Rokko Island. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「The Company will invest in facilities to increase the volume of hazardous materials, temperature-controlled cargo and heavy cargo handled, for which high profitability is expected and customer demand exists.」
The company plans to expand handling volumes through capital investment, broadening its focus from high-value-added operations centered on hazardous goods to growth products including temperature-controlled and heavy cargo. - FY2025-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「Expanding partnerships to accommodate periods when our own warehouses are fully occupied, as well as strengthening collection sales for ISO tank containers stored outdoors, also helped support profit.」
The company is expanding its sales targets beyond high-value-added cargo such as hazardous goods by developing partner facilities for periods when its own warehouses are full and strengthening collection sales for outdoor-stored ISO tank containers. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「To improve profitability, we will strengthen sales activities to increase the handling of import and export container cargo with high turnover, particularly special containers such as flat-rack containers, which can carry oversized cargo that cannot be loaded into standard ocean containers, together with their ancillary work. Competition in high-value-added hazardous-materials handling is intensifying, but we will continue to strengthen sales activities for ISO tank containers by leveraging our strengths, including outdoor yards and specialized cargo-handling equipment and its operators.」
In addition to enhancing value centered on hazardous-goods warehouses, the company is expanding its sales targets to include special containers such as flat racks, ancillary work and ISO tank containers. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the warehouse business, the handling of inbound and outbound cargo and storage at hazardous-goods warehouses in the Kobe and Himeji areas remained steady.」
Handling centered on hazardous-goods warehouses in the Kobe and Himeji areas remained steady. - FY2024-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehousing business, storage revenue from the hazardous-materials warehouse in the Kobe area increased, but work revenue declined in line with the decrease in export cargo handled by the port transport business.」
Although work revenue declined as export-cargo handling decreased, storage revenue from hazardous-goods warehouses increased, indicating progress toward warehouse operations centered on high-value-added cargo. - FY2023AdvancedAnnual report
「In November of the previous year, the Company added a third hazardous-materials warehouse at the Hyogo Wharf Logistics Center. It was fully occupied from the time it opened, and customers have given it favorable reviews, including for the quality of its operations.」
The expansion of the hazardous-goods warehouse was completed, demonstrating full-capacity utilization from the time it opened as well as positive customer evaluations. - FY2023-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehousing business, handling of general cargo declined, but the hazardous-materials warehouses in the Kobe and Himeji areas operated smoothly as a result of sales activities focused on hazardous materials. In November 2022, the company also added one hazardous-materials warehouse at the Hyogo Pier Logistics Center.」
As general cargo declined, sales activities specializing in hazardous-materials handling and the operation and expansion of hazardous-goods warehouses progressed, advancing efforts to enhance value centered on hazardous goods. - FY2023-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehouse business, inbound and outbound handling and storage at the hazardous-materials warehouses in the Kobe and Himeji areas remained solid, with high utilization rates continuing. In addition to receiving orders for ancillary work alongside storage and cargo-handling operations, the company significantly improved its profit margin through cost reductions resulting from its acquisition of the Hyogo Pier Distribution Center site at the end of the previous fiscal year.」
High utilization of hazardous-goods warehouses in the Kobe and Himeji areas continued, and orders for ancillary work in addition to storage and cargo handling also contributed to higher profit margins. - FY2023-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「The Hyogo Futo Logistics Center performed steadily, including by beginning to handle new projects involving high-value-added hazardous-goods cargo.」
The Hyogo Futo Logistics Center began handling new projects involving high-value-added hazardous-goods cargo, advancing efforts to enhance the value of the warehouse business centered on hazardous goods. - FY2022AdvancedAnnual report
「The handling of general cargo at ordinary-goods warehouses was challenging because logistics stalled amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but handling of high-value-added hazardous-goods cargo grew steadily as a result of integrated sales activities spanning the port transport and warehouse businesses.」
Integrated sales activities spanning port transport and warehousing, together with a focus on hazardous-goods cargo, increased the handling of special cargo even as general cargo remained sluggish. - FY2022-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehousing business, difficult conditions continued for general warehouses due partly to logistics stagnation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but sales activities focused on dangerous-goods warehouses enabled the dangerous-goods warehouse at the Hyogo Pier Logistics Center to operate smoothly. Revenue increased to ¥1,090 million, up 2.0% year on year, and operating profit rose to ¥56 million, up 19.8%, aided by the cost reduction from shifting operations to the Hyogo Pier Logistics Center following the sale of the Maya warehouse in the previous fiscal year.」
Sales activities focused on hazardous-goods warehouses and the shift of operations to the Hyogo Futo Logistics Center produced results, with operating profit in the warehouse business increasing 19.8% year on year. - FY2022-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehouse business, special cargo such as hazardous goods matched new facilities suited to current market conditions and also contributed to improving performance.」
The fit between special cargo such as hazardous goods and the new facilities improved warehouse-business performance, producing tangible results from efforts to enhance value centered on special cargo. - FY2022-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「In the standalone warehousing business, focused sales activities for hazardous-goods warehouses proved effective. The sale of Maya Warehouse and the shift of operations to the Hyogo Futo Logistics Center also reduced costs. As a result, revenue increased 0.7% year on year to ¥357 million, while operating profit increased 262.7% to ¥18 million.」
Sales activities focused on hazardous-goods warehouses produced results and, together with cost reductions from shifting operations to the Hyogo Futo Logistics Center, contributed to higher revenue and profit in the warehouse business. - FY2021RestatedAnnual report
「To this end, the Company will also focus on safety, including the training of personnel qualified to handle hazardous materials, and work to secure more long-term, stable cargo.」
The company continues to enhance the value of its warehouse operations, centered on hazardous materials and chemicals, on the basis of developing qualified hazardous-materials handlers and maintaining a strong focus on safety. - FY2021-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「The hazardous-goods warehouse at the Hyogo Wharf Logistics Center, which began operations in January 2020, operated smoothly as a new earnings base, resulting in higher revenue of ¥1,069 million, up 2.7% year on year. Despite the increased depreciation burden from the new warehouse, the company worked to reduce administrative expenses, resulting in higher operating profit of ¥47 million, up 31.4% year on year.」
The hazardous-goods warehouses operated smoothly as a new earnings base, contributing to a 2.7% increase in warehouse-business revenue and a 31.4% increase in operating profit. - FY2021-Q2Growth in the hazardous-goods warehouse was constrainedAnnual report
「In the warehouse business, the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic constrained growth at the hazardous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area, which had been driving the warehouse business, while the other general-goods warehouses also struggled under increasingly difficult conditions.」
Efforts to enhance the value of the business using hazardous-goods warehouses were held back by the economic downturn and the impact of COVID-19. - FY2021-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the warehouse business, handling revenue at warehouses in the Kobe area declined because export volumes handled by the port operations business fell. However, the hazardous-goods warehouse remained firm, and rental warehouse income provided support.」
The hazardous-goods warehouse remained firm and, together with rental warehouse income, supported the warehouse business amid declining export volumes. - FY2020-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehousing business, work-related revenue at the Kobe-area warehouses declined in line with lower volumes of import and export cargo handled in the port operations business, but the dangerous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area, which began operating in September of the previous fiscal year, operated smoothly during the current period. Revenue therefore increased to ¥1,040 million, up 4.1% year on year, and operating profit rose to ¥35 million, up 5.6%.」
The hazardous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area operated smoothly and contributed to a 4.1% increase in warehouse business revenue and a 5.6% increase in operating profit. - FY2020-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehousing business, the dangerous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area continued to perform well, and new warehouse land was secured at Hyogo Pier in Kobe Port, with part of it beginning operations as a rental warehouse. Although handling volumes declined to 56 thousand tonnes, down 21.2% year on year, handling of high-value-added cargo and the launch of the rental warehouse contributed to higher revenue of ¥687 million, up 7.7%. Operating profit also increased to ¥24 million, up 112.9%.」
The hazardous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area performed well, and the rental warehouse also began operations. Together with the handling of high-value-added cargo, these operations contributed to higher revenue and profit in the warehouse business. - FY2020-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehousing business, work-related revenue at the Kobe-area warehouses remained firm, and the dangerous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area, which began operations in August 2018, reached full operation. Revenue was ¥336 million, up 2.4% year on year, and operating profit was ¥13 million, up 17.3%.」
The hazardous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area, which began operations in August 2018, became fully operational and contributed to higher revenue and profit in the warehouse business. - FY2019-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「In the warehousing business, work-related revenue at the Kobe-area warehouses increased in line with higher volumes of import and export cargo handled in the port operations business, and the dangerous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area, which began operating in September, also contributed. Revenue therefore increased to ¥999 million, up 7.9% year on year, while operating profit rose substantially to ¥33 million, up 464.6%.」
The hazardous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area, which began operations in September, contributed to the warehouse business, resulting in operating profit of ¥33 million. - FY2019-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「At the warehouse in the Himeji area, the Company sought to move away from steel-material warehousing and completed and began operating the area's first hazardous-materials warehouse in September.」
To expand its handling of hazardous goods, the first hazardous-goods warehouse in the Himeji area was completed and began operations in September. - FY2018First statedAnnual report
「To reduce the workload of employees, the Company will standardize operations through the introduction of various types of equipment, train employees to handle hazardous materials, for which handling volumes are expected to increase, raise the added value of the warehousing business and seek to lift earnings.」
The company presents standardising operations through the introduction of equipment and training personnel to handle hazardous goods as means of increasing the value added and profitability of the warehouse business.