Nippon Express launches five-day US delivery option for Asia–US ocean freight
Container News · Oct 3, 2026
Nippon Express has expanded its NX Ocean Fast Track service with a new option offering delivery from the Port of Los Angeles to major destinations across the United States within five days. The new service, called US 5-Day Cross, covers shipments from Tokyo, Shanghai and Haiphong via Los Angeles to destinations across the US. It […]
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The corridor
Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach
Domestic corridorUS West CoastThe San Pedro Bay complex is the largest container gateway in the United States and the primary landing point for transpacific imports. What happens on these two adjacent terminals sets the tempo for US inland freight two to three weeks later.
- Import surges land as chassis and drayage shortages before they show as vessel queues — the constraint is usually on the landside, not the water.
- Transload volumes move onto Class I rail within days, so a West Coast surge becomes a Chicago intermodal problem shortly afterwards.
- Labour negotiations, terminal automation disputes and truck-appointment policy changes all move throughput without changing a single vessel schedule.
- When the Panama Canal restricts transits, discretionary cargo shifts here, which is the main way a Central American drought becomes a US domestic trucking story.
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