• Air and oceanfreight will carry critical vehicles from UK and China to Japan
• DHL's multimodalsolution was designed to maximize safety while minimizing lag between adjacentraces on both championships' schedules

TOKYO,JAPAN - Media OutReach - 17 October 2018 - DHL Global Forwarding, the leading internationalprovider of air, sea and road freight services, will provide end-to-endmultimodal freight support for the back-to-back Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World EnduranceChampionship (WEC) and the WTCR --FIA World Touring Car Cup (WTCR) Race in Japan. Asthe official logistics partner of the global championship races for the seventhyear, DHL Global Forwarding will deliver racing cars, spares and equipment via air,ocean and land freight to the WEC's Fuji International Speedway and WTCR's SuzukaCircuit.

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To support the races, DHL Global Forwarding will manageall transportation, customs clearance, and ground handling for 36 racecars,spares, and ancillary equipment -- including everything from specialized tiresto high-performance engine blocks. Prior to the WEC race at Mount Fuji, DHLwill ship the cargos via a combination of ocean and air freight from the UnitedKingdom and Germany to the Port of Tokyo, before delivering the cars and otherequipment to the race circuits via road. In the lead-up to the WTCR's race, asecond set of vehicles will arrive via ocean freight direct from their previousrace in Wuhan, China.

"It is our honor to be partnering with theFIA once again for both the World Endurance Championship as well as the WTCRRace of Japan," said CharlesKaufmann, President/Representative Director -- Japan K.K, and CEO, North AsiaSouth Pacific, DHL Global Forwarding. "As with all of the motorsports events wesupport around the world, our goal remains the same: deliver the race'scritical ingredients with speed and agility, while alsoensuring the utmost safety and regulatory compliance of these precious cargos. Given therelatively tight scheduling between each championship's events, we've alsooptimized our delivery patterns to ensure the cars move swiftly from theirprior engagements to Japan before continuing on their global tours."

DHL Global Forwarding's rapid shipments and expertisein automotive handling will play a major role in ensuring the cars move fromcircuit to circuit according to the FIA's precise schedule. Immediately aftereach race, DHL's teams will load all goods, transport them from circuit toport, and clear customs within 72 hours, before conveying the cars to their nextoutings in Shanghai (WEC) and Macau (WTCR).

The FIA WEC, also known as 6 Hours of Fuji, willbe held from 12-14 October 2018 at the foothills of Mount Fuji. The three-dayevent will see the likes of world-renowned racers like Fernando Alonso, BrunoSenna, Jenson Button and Oliver Webb race to the finish line during anendurance competition that lasts six hours, stretching over a 4.5-kilometer loopwith 16 spectacular twists and turns.[1]

Meanwhile, the WTCR Race of Japan will be heldover the weekend of 26-28 October 2018, consisting of three races totaling 42laps and 168 kilometers.[2]At the Suzuka Circuit, home to the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix since 1987, driverswill be tested on their skills thanks to a unique figure-of-eight layout and varietyof corners.

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