Tag: Japan

DHL aims to impart beach safety knowledge to children with “DHL Kids’ Lifesaving Experience”

Posted by | Jun 9, 2008 | |

DHL has held its “DHL Kids’ Lifesaving Experience” on 8 June 2008, almost one month before the beach open this summer.

The event, which aimed to teach children about water and beach safety, was held at Shirahama Ohama Beach in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture.

The “DHL Kids’ Lifesaving Experience” reflects one of DHL Japan’s core themes in its Corporate Sustainability initiatives, which is “Supporting Future Generations”.

The event this year marks the fifth time it has been organized, with the inaugural event taking place in 2004.

This year’s event was held in conjunction with the “21st All-Japan Lifesaving Multi-Category Championship”, held on 7 and 8 June at the same beach.

The children were able to gain an understanding of lifesaving activities with a talk on “Safety In The Water” by local lifesavers, with the objective of educating the children on safety at the beach.

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Japan Post to use only electric cars by '15

Posted by | Jun 3, 2008 | |

Japan Post Service Co., which belongs to Japan Post Holdings Co., announced Monday that it is planning to gradually introduce electric cars to replace and eventually phase out its current fleet of automobiles over the next eight years to help reduce levels of greenhouse gas emissions.

The company owns about 22,000 lightfreight cars that are used to deliver mail and about 1,000 passenger cars that are used for business purposes. It has already adopted some hybrid cars as part of its fleet.

The company’s gasoline costs total about 10 billion yen a year. By incorporating more hybrid cars as part of its fleet the company expects to reduce gasoline costs.

Japan Post said the change to electric cars will be a good fit for short-distance deliveries and business use, due to battery technology advancements. Currently, the company has called for several automakers to become involved in the development of battery operated cars and also approached them to develop battery operated bikes.

It will be necessary for the company to provide recharging points for the vehicles at 1,092 post offices across the country.

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Japan Post looking to switch fleet to electric cars

Posted by | Jun 2, 2008 | |

Japan’s postal services system is looking to switch its entire fleet of about 21,000 short-distance delivery vehicles to zero-emission electric cars starting this business year, it said on Monday.

Depending on how fast the cars and necessary infrastructure such as recharging stations could be ready, the company may use some gasoline-electric hybrid cars in the interim, he said.

Among Japanese automakers, Mitsubishi Motors Corp, Subaru maker Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd and Nissan Motor Co are aggressively developing electric cars, which emit little to no harmful emissions but require large loads of batteries to drive relatively short distances. The time required to recharge the batteries is also a hurdle with current technology.

All three automakers have said they aim to commercialise electric cars by 2010.

Shares of vehicle-use battery makers surged after the Nikkei business daily reported Japan Post’s plan on Monday. Furukawa Battery Co surged 16 percent, GS Yuasa Corp., which has a battery joint venture with Mitsubishi Motors, jumped 7 percent, and Sanyo Electric Co put on 5.6 percent.

Hitachi Maxell Ltd gained 6.5 percent. A spokesman there confirmed a Nikkei evening edition report that it is aiming to commercialise a longer-lasting, cheaper lithium-ion battery in the next three to four years that substitutes expensive cobalt with manganese.

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Japan Post distributes ING insurance products

Posted by | Jun 2, 2008 | |

Selling life insurance products is the third new service that the Japan Post Group has been allowed to undertake since its privatisation started in October last year.

The Japan Post Group has started distributing ING Life Japan’s life insurance products, the latest service that it has been allowed to do following its privatisation last year.

Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Network are selling ING Life Japan’s single premium variable annuity products. Japan Post Insurance sells the firm’s corporate-owned life insurance products.

The partnership will allow ING to increase top line growth in the hard-to-penetrate Japanese market, which is one of the world’s largest life insurance markets. It will extend ING’s existing distribution network of 50 banks and securities houses for SPVA products and nearly 6,000 independent agents for COLI products.

ING Life Japan, a unit of Netherlands-based ING, launched its business in 1986 as the first European life insurance company in Japan and was the first company to introduce variable annuity products to the Japanese market.

Japan Post Bank, Japan Post Network and Japan Post Insurance are all part of the Japan Post Group, and are privatised entities formed following the privatisation of the former Government postal service.

Japan Post Network and Japan Post Bank have also started selling variable annuity insurance products for Sumitomo Life Insurance, Mitsui Sumitomo MetLife Insurance and Alico Japan. The products will initially be sold at 161 outlets across the country, which will expand to about 320 by October.

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Postal Industry Launches Global Carbon Measurement System

Posted by | Jun 2, 2008 | |

The International Post Corporation (IPC) has launched an environmental measurement and monitoring system providing a common carbon measurement and reporting framework for the global postal industry.

The launch and formal adoption by IPC member postal operators including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, took place at IPC’s Annual Conference 2008 in La Chapelle en Serval, France on 30 May. The event was attended by CEOs from Europe, the Asia-Pacific and North America.
The system provides the postal industry with a transparent, scientific, sector specific carbon management and measurement system based on the requirements of international best practice standards, such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, DJSI, FTSE4Good, ISO 14001, and current best practice from the corporate environment. The system evaluates performance through the application of a scoring system that grades performance in ten carbon management proficiency areas and in key numeric carbon efficiency indicators.

The environmental measurement and monitoring system was also built on best practice as exemplified by customers of IPC members and is highly responsive to customer requirements and interests in measuring their own carbon footprint in their value chains.

The system will be piloted in 2008, with results from the first round of measurement expected to be announced in November 2009.

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