At the begining of the 21st century, recognizing developement of information technologies, globalization of economic activities and worsening environmental problems, the government set new comprehensive policies regarding cargo transport on 6 th of July. The new policies set two targets: one is to build up a competitive cargo transport market. And the other is to build a cargo transport system which will put less environmental impact. These targets will be realized by 2005. This paper reports and explains the content of