Enlargement of the Narita Terminal (Tertiary Construction)

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Enlargement of the Narita Terminal (Tertiary Construction)2008/08/26

KWE has decided to enlarge its Narita Terminal (tertiary construction) as indicated below.

Planned construction site

Location: 157-1, Osato, Shibayama-Cho, Sanbu-gun, Chiba

II.

Overview of enlargement plan

A. 　Enlargement scale and structure

	1. Structure	: Five-story steel framed building
	2. Building area	: 4,323.60 ㎡ (approx. 1,307.89 tsubo)
	3. Floor area	: 14,299.23 ㎡ (approx. 4,325.52 tsubo)

B.　Facilities (enlarged area and existing area)

Floor	Enlarged section	Existing section	Total
Roof	80.14㎡	263.56㎡	343.70㎡
5th	3,228.76㎡	8,912.29㎡	12,141.05㎡
4th	3,221.56㎡	8,912.29㎡	12,133.85㎡
3rd	3,270.82㎡	9,018.49㎡	12,289.31㎡
2nd	174.35㎡	1,212.00㎡	1,386.35㎡
1st	4,323.60㎡	11,776.70㎡	16,100.30㎡
Total	14,299.23 ㎡ (Approx. 4,325.52 tsubo)	40,095.33 ㎡ (Approx. 12,128.84 tsubo)	54,394.56 ㎡ (Approx. 16,454.36 tsubo)

*The terminal will be among the largest single facilities in the Narita area.

III.

Start of construction

Planned for the middle of December 2008

IV.

Completion

Planned for the end of October 2009

Purpose of enlargement

To strengthen the airfreight forwarding services and to expand sales of logistics services

After expanding the floor area of the terminal, a second unit load device (ULD; an airfreight pallet) workstation will be added on the first floor in addition to the existing one. This will enable us to operate one ULD workstation designated exclusively for export freight and one exclusively for import freight, thereby strengthening our ULD intact transportation service.

In an exporting country, a ULD intact transportation service is a service in which a forwarder assembles individual freight items into a ULD at its own facilities and delivers the ULDs to the airline company. In an importing country, it is a service in which ULDs of imported freight that have arrived at the airport are sent on to the forwarder's own bonded warehouse without being broken down at the airport's common bonded warehouse (i.e. shed). The individual pieces of freight are then unloaded in-house by the forwarder. This service enables shorter import and export times and better prevention of freight damage compared to the conventional work done at airports.

With the additional warehousing space on the third through fifth floors, KWE will strengthen its provision of high value-added logistics services, including leveraging its location close to the airport for cross dock operations that must be managed in units of time, work done in bond, and freight inspection work.

Upon completion of the tertiary construction, the KWE Narita Terminal will be one the industry's largest single facilities in the Narita area. The company is determined to develop services that meet the needs of customers and expand sales by positioning the Narita Terminal as Japan's largest state-of-the-art strategic logistics base.

Aerial view of the Narita Terminal (The red lines depict the planned enlargement)	Frontal view of the Narita Terminal

Cross Dock Distribution Service

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