cargo-partner expands European Road Transport network to meet growing demand and nearshoring trends

cargo-partner, a member of the NIPPON EXPRESS GROUP, is significantly expanding its Road Transport services across Europe, with a strategic focus on the interconnected trade flows linking Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Poland with Italy, Türkiye, the UK, and Ireland.

“Road freight plays a vital role in keeping European supply chains flexible and reliable,” said Mirko Blazevic, Director Road Europe Operations at cargo-partner. “By expanding our network across Europe, we are giving customers access to an integrated solution that combines transport, customs, warehousing, and digital visibility through one trusted partner.”

Supported by a strong regional presence in Central and Eastern Europe and the broader capabilities of the NX GROUP, cargo-partner’s expanded offering covers the full range of road transport requirements, including FTL, LTL, groupage, economy, priority, and emergency services.

Key Service Enhancements and Trade Corridors

As part of the expansion, cargo-partner has optimized its service offerings on several critical European trade routes:

• Italy – CEE: On the Italy-CEE corridor, the logistics provider offers up to five weekly departures from Italy to Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and Poland and vice versa. With door-to-door transit times starting from three days, these services are seeing growing demand from customers in the automotive, machinery, and furniture sectors.
• Türkiye – CEE: Fueled by the growing interest in nearshoring, cargo-partner provides weekly import and export services to and from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary and vice versa. This includes a regular Istanbul-Brno connection with a door-to-door transit time starting from seven days. An increasingly popular service on this route is intermodal transport, a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to classic FTL road transport which reduces the risk of delays at the Turkish border.
• UK & Ireland – Europe: Serving the trade lane between CEE and the UK, cargo-partner offers twice-weekly groupage departures from the UK to Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Türkiye. This is complemented by a well-established road service across the Irish Sea, offering daily groupage, part load, full load, and express van options.

Integrated Warehousing and Pan-European Distribution

A major strength of the service is its integrated approach. In addition to transport, cargo-partner offers comprehensive customs support across Europe. Linehaul services are available from the logistics provider’s Austrian hub to Croatia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Türkiye, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Slovenia, Kosovo, the “Stan” countries, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Albania.

These services are complemented by a strong warehouse network, including cargo-partner-operated facilities across Central and Eastern Europe, Türkiye, and the UK, as well as NX GROUP warehouse locations in Italy and other key Western European hubs. This infrastructure enables tailored solutions that combine transport with consolidation, storage, fulfillment, and distribution.

“We are consistently building an efficient and flexible network that streamlines operations throughout Europe,” emphasized Mirko Blazevic. “Strengthening our road transport capacity and internal processes allows us to offer even faster, more resilient service. Our goal is not just to move goods, but to actively remove obstacles from our customers’ supply chains. That is the real added value.”