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june 06, 2017 - Scania

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Sublime journey. Ube Industries has the world’s longest private highway. “What we have is like a test course for new trucks,” says the company’s head of logistics.

The industrial city at the very southern tip of Japan’s main island of Honshū has turned local limestone into cement since the 1920s. Over the years the operation run by Ube Industries has grown so much that almost every aspect of it is gargantuan – from cement kilns to quarries to the transport that carries its 8.4 million tonnes of limestone, coal, and waste product every year.

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