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Native name | 日本貨物鉄道株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Nippon Kamotsu Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha |
| Company type | State-ownedKK |
| Predecessor | Japanese National Railways (JNR) |
| Founded | 1 April 1987; 38 years ago (1987-04-01) (privatization of JNR) |
| Headquarters | 5-33-8, Sendagaya,Shibuya, Tokyo ,Japan |
| Services | freight services other related services |
| Owner | Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (100%) |
Number of employees | 5,472 (as of April 1, 2021[update])[1] |
| Website | www (in English) |
Japan Freight Railway Company (日本貨物鉄道株式会社,Nippon Kamotsu Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha), orJR Freight (JR貨物,Jeiāru Kamotsu), is one of the seven constituent companies ofJapan Railways Group (JR Group). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide throughoutJapan. Its headquarters are inShibuya, Tokyo nearShinjuku Station.[1]
The Japan Railways Group was founded on 1 April 1987, whenJapanese National Railways (JNR) was privatized. Japanese National Railways was divided into six regionalpassenger rail companies and a singlefreight railway company, Japan Freight Railway Company.
The company has only about 50 kilometers (31 mi) oftrack of its own, and therefore operates on track owned by the six JR passenger railways as well as other companies which providerail transport in Japan.
In 2017, only about 5% of all freight in Japan is carried by rail but nearly all of that, 99%, is carried by JR Freight.[2] Trucks carry about 50% and ships about 44%.[2] JR Freight has seen its share of the freight market gradually decrease since 1993.[citation needed] In the 2010s JR Freight has been carrying more freight because of the decrease in the number of available truck drivers due to age as well as government policy to reduce carbon dioxide.[2] JR Freight has run a deficit for many years.[3]
While major part of the operation of JR Freight is on the tracks owned and maintained by other JR companies, JR Freight owns the railway lines (as Category-1 railway business) as follows:
As of 1 March 2017[update], JR Freight owns and operates the followingrolling stock,[4] with most of the newer motive stock being exclusively built byToshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions:
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