Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) recently announced that a transport operation will be made on a trial basis on March 8-13 on the route from Rayong (Thailand)—via Savannakhet (Laos) and Da Nan (Vietnam)—to Hanoi (Vietnam). The government of Japan intends to develop an international multimodal transport system in the East-West Economic Corridor by encouraging local trucking and Vietnamese railway services to work together. The program is part of Tokyo’s Asian logistics pilot projects for fiscal 2014 (April 2014-March 2015).