Business Philosophy

Advanced Storage & Transportation

Safety, Speed, and Sincerity are our fundamental commitment upon which we expand our leading transportation business globally.

Since our founding in 1934, we have developed as a total distribution service provider with the motto of "Safety, Speed and Sincerity." In order to achieve further corporate innovation in response to the changing times, we have changed our company name from Kinki Transportation & Warehouse Co., Ltd. to AST Inc. on August 1st, 2005.

We will continue to plan and propose services that anticipate the needs of our customers by developing new logistics systems one step ahead of the times, while taking advantage of our corporate assets, technology, and know-how accumulated over the past 80-plus years.

We will continue to improve the quality of our logistics services based on a rational, integrated logistics of ocean transport, storage and land transport and develop logistics services that respond to the ever-increasing globalization of logistics to meet our customers’ needs.