Logistics
Air Water's Logistics Business maintains advanced logistics services nationwide and is essential to the group's transport infrastructure. Furthermore, it actively seeks out contract transporting business from customers outside the Air Water Group and has built an independent business structure that comprises 70% of direct sales.
Air Water Specialized Transportation Inc.(Japanese version only)
< High-pressure Gas Logistics >
The logistics business that gave birth to constant refrigerated transport technology
Liquefied gas tank truck
Air Water's Logistics Business is the starting point for Air Water's industrial and medical gas business, as it ensures that gas is constantly delivered by Air Water to its customers. Transport vehicles, from liquefied gas tank trucks to trailer trucks, optimally suited to customer needs and based on the transport expertise and advanced transport technology using equable low temperature which Air Water has cultivated over many years are used to quickly and safely deliver high pressure gas.
< General Cargo Logistics >
A diversity of transport methods to handle any type of lot
Container transport method
Air Water utilizes a transport network linking all parts of Japan to transport general cargo such as construction materials and agricultural products. A diversity of efficient transport arrangements – up to 3PL – suited to customer needs is offered, including ferries and other large volume container transport methods and joint logistics for small- and medium-sized cargo lots, with the aim of increasing reliability and lowering transport costs to provide high quality logistics services that will attract customers.
< Food Products Logistics >
Thoroughly temperature-controlled transporting to ensure freshness
Ebetsu Logistics Center
Air Water carries out food products distribution centered on a meticulous logistics network in Hokkaido and incorporating transport technology using equable low temperature, cultivated from high-pressure gas shipping, to ensure the sensitive temperature control needed to preserve quality and freshness. This business made a full-scale entry into the Tohoku area in FY2010 and, for the future, is looking to expand further into Honshu.
< Medical and Environmental Logistics >
Cutting-edge technology providing rigorous control over the "essence of life"
NAT sample transportation
Air Water's wealth of experience with transport technology using equable low temperature has produced one more cutting-edge technology: blood plasma and NAT sample transportation. BT Business involves taking the blood (blood plasma) collected at blood centers nationwide and transporting it in dedicated transport vehicles at a strictly controlled temperature of -20°C or lower to Japanese Red Cross Society plasma fractionation centers and blood management centers; this business represents a significant social responsibility contracted out completely to Air Water.
< Warehouse and Distributive Processing >
Adding new value to complex logistics services
Warehouse management
Air Water provides high value-added Logistics Business in a wide array of fields, including such services as proper inventory management and delivery services using Air Water warehouses as well as product tagging at distribution centers. Joint logistics proposals offered via these sorts of services represent some of the ways in which Air Water is actively advancing its Logistics Business.
< Group Product Logistics >
Capitalizing on advanced logistical know-how to realize group synergy
Air Water's Logistics Business has cultivated a broad wealth of experience and know-how from outside logistics contracts undertaken in all fields, and it utilizes this experience and know-how to provide diverse product logistics services to the members of the Air Water Group. Amidst the business expansion that has taken place as a result of active M&A, Air Water's Logistics Business plays a key role in facilitating group synergy by enabling the Air Water Group to perform all of its own logistics in such fields as Industrial Gas, Medical Products, Food Products, Construction Materials, Household Products and, in recent years, salt for Nihonkaisui.

