The service, branded as Vienna Consolidation, consolidates shipments from five major Japanese ports—Yokohama, Nagoya, Kobe, Hakata and Moji—at a hub in Tokyo. Cargo is then shipped to Hamburg and transferred by rail or truck to Vienna for final distribution across Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
According to the company, the service was developed in response to growing demand for cost-efficient LCL transport from Japan to the CEE region. Destinations include Vienna, Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Zagreb, Bratislava, Prague, Budapest, Warsaw and Poznan.
“The Vienna Consolidation service was developed to provide a seamless connection between Japan and 26 destinations across Central and Eastern Europe,” a cargo-partner representative stated.
Once containers arrive in Hamburg, they are moved to a container freight station in Vienna, where shipments are sorted and prepared for delivery. The entire process is managed by cargo-partner in cooperation with Nippon Express Group.
The new service builds on the existing “ONE Road” initiative, which aims to align cargo-partner and Nippon Express operations more closely within the region.
