Community Involvement

Our View on Community Involvement

The FLY EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE Group’s business activities rely on local social infrastructure such as roadways, railways, ports, and airports and are closely involved in the relevant communities and societies. Recognizing our social and public missions as a logistics company, we will communicate actively with local communities and engage in social action programs rooted in these communities.

Contributing to Society Through Our Business Operations

The Kelani River Project That Contributes to the Development of Emerging Countries: The Sri Lanka Branch is involved in the Kelani River Project, which contributes to economic development and the alleviation of traffic congestion in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s largest city.
The New Kelani Bridge, which runs over the Kelani River, has become a traffic bottleneck because major highways that lead to national roads and international airports merge there, and chronic traffic congestion has become a serious social problem. Through the Kelani River Project, the construction of a new bridge adjacent to the existing New Kelani Bridge and an elevated access road that will be connected to the bridge is currently in progress. The Company is responsible for the material transportation for the elevated access road from April 2019 to October 2020, and for importing/exporting, storing, and transporting temporary materials, construction materials, and devices to be procured domestically and globally.

Rough placement work of sheet pile (temporary material)

Assisting in the Transport of Paintings: The Air Freight Business Branch arranges transport for the Tsuzuki Botswana Interchange Elementary School Students’ Painting Exhibition. This exhibition involves reciprocal displays of paintings made by elementary school students from Tsuzuki Ward in Yokohama and elementary school students from the Republic of Botswana, and it has been held since 2014 for the purpose of promoting international exchange.
The 2018 exhibition was held at Ben Thema Elementary School in Botswana. Paintings made by children from Chigasaki Elementary School were transported to Botswana. After the Botswana exhibition, the paintings from Chigasaki and the paintings made by students at Ben Thema Elementary School were transported to Yokohama and displayed in the Tsuzuki Ward Office and elsewhere. The children from both schools interacted by painting messages to each other.

Ben Thema Elementary School

Appropriate Transport of Disaster Waste

FLY EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE has been collecting and transporting waste, including contaminated waste, generated in large-scale disasters such as the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake to storage or receiving facilities. By rapidly removing large volumes of waste, we have supported the recovery of disaster-hit areas and minimized the environmental impact.

West Japan Heavy Rain Disaster
The West Japan Heavy Rain Disaster occurred in July 2018. From August to November 2018, we participated in activities to support the areas stricken by the disaster. For example, we sorted four types of household appliances that were disposed of as a consequence of the river floods resulting from the heavy rain in locations such as Hiroshima and Ehime. We also transported the damaged appliances to designated collection locations.

Support for UNICEF Foreign Coins Collection Program: FLY EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE became a corporate member of the Japan Committee for UNICEF in 2008, and we have joined hands with the "UNICEF Foreign Coins Collection Program*" as part of our social contribution. We support the program by receiving, collecting, transporting, and handing over to airlines coins that are brought to us from Group companies. We also engage in fundraising and public relations to help broaden the program's reach.
A fundraising program in which foreign coins that sit unused in households and offices are collected and sent to UNICEF, where they are used to fund activities that protect the lives and health of children in developing countries.

Environmental Social Action Programme

Forest Cultivation Activities in "Nittsu Forests": As part of its environmental and social contribution activities, FLY EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE has established "Nittsu Forests" in Iidemachi in Yamagata Prefecture and Nichinancho in Tottori Prefecture, where employees and their families participate in forest cultivation efforts. Three concepts underlie these activities: enhancing the multifaceted functions of forests, contributing to local communities and educating environmental human resources. Participants plant trees and cut underbrush twice a year, obtaining assistance and guidance from municipal government offices, local forestry cooperatives and NPOs. More than 2,000 people have taken part in the forest cultivation activities to date, planting more than 8,000 saplings. We will continue to proactively work towards cultivating and conserving forests that serve as CO₂ sinks, have multifaceted functions, and play a major role in global environmental conservation.

Forest cultivation activity in Nittsu Forests in Iidemachi in Yamagata Prefecture (planting activity)

Forest cultivation activity in Nittsu Forests in Nichinancho in Tottori Prefecture (underbrush cutting activity)

Environment Month: The United Nations has designated June 5 as World Environment Day. In Japan, advocated by the Ministry of the Environment, the entire month of June is designated as Environment Month every year, and a range of events are implemented nationwide. Around 10,000 employees from the Group are involved in activities such as cleaning around its offices to contribute to local communities through our environment conservation activities and to deepen employees’ interest in and understanding of the activities.

Cleaning activity (in Nagasaki)

Cleaning activity (in Nagano)

Environmental Education for the Next Generation

Endowed Courses: The Company has been dispatching personnel for the endowed courses for university students organized by the Japan Association for Logistics and Transport to give lectures under the theme of Logistics and Environmental Issues on a periodical basis.
The Company is assisting with environmental education as a good corporate citizen to foster the environmental awareness of university students.

Endowed Courses

Communications with Communities

Safety Lectures for Children to Uphold Safety in the Community: The Company has been dispatching personnel (instructors) to elementary schools nationwide to give to offer traffic safety classes. In 2018, we held a lecture at Muranaka Elementary School in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, on October 16, which was attended by 399 pupils. During the lecture, we used an actual truck to give the students opportunities to have realistic experiences of the risks hidden on roads and around cars, e.g. “An inner wheel difference is generated on the rear wheels when going around a curve because they run inside the front wheels," “Drivers cannot see pedestrians when turning at an intersection due to the mirrors and pillars (pillars connecting the car body and roof)," "Drivers of trucks, whose driving seat is higher than regular cars, have blind angles." We received feedback from teachers such as, "Your description of risky locations by using an actual truck was concrete and convincing," "It was a good opportunity to understand situations in which drivers get a fright."

Traffic safety class

Arranging Company Visits and Workplace Experiences: One social contribution activity that we instituted for the purpose of career education is arranging company visits and workplace experiences for junior high and high school students.
Company visits focus on introducing students to the nature of the Company’s business and allowing them to exchange views with employees. As their elders, we are prepared to discuss not only the logistics industry but also a wide range of topics that will help them grasp the sense of diligence and professionalism they need as working adults. Workplace experiences provide students with venues for fostering a sense of professionalism and give them actual experience of working at a company through activities such as warehouse operation and removal simulations.

Workplace experience, observing a trailer being loaded

Baseball Lessons: The FLY EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE baseball club has been holding baseball lessons every year for the purpose of teaching the importance of observing rules and fostering the healthy development of children through baseball practice.
It has been implemented not only in our hometown of Saitama City but also at camp sites and road trip destinations as a community-based regional contribution activity.

Baseball coaching for local junior high students (Saitama Prefecture)