Japan Begins Setting Fair Cost Benchmarks for Trucking Rates
# trucking rates# Japan logistics# 2024 problem
Key Points
- Expert panel starts work on fair-cost pricing for truck transport
- Policy shifts from work-hour caps to rate protection
Analysis
An MLIT expert panel began debating fair-cost benchmarks for trucking rates, aiming to end decades of ruinous rate-cutting. After the 2024 work-hour reforms, Japan's logistics policy now moves to protect pricing itself—rewriting shippers' cost structures.