What is Sinotrans? Sinotrans Review, Features

Sinotrans (Sinotrans Co., Ltd.) is the unified operating platform and unified brand of China Merchants Group's logistics business. It was listed in Hong Kong on February 13, 2003, and in Shanghai Stock Exchange in January 2019, successfully achieving "A+H" dual listing.

About Sinotrans

• As of the end of 2018, Sinotrans had total assets of RMB 61.5 billion and operating income of RMB 77.3 billion.

• Sinotrans' vision is to build a world-class intelligent logistics platform enterprise, focusing on customer needs and deep-seated business pressures and challenges, continuously creating business value and social value with the best solutions and services, and forming three major business segments: professional logistics, agency and related businesses, and e-commerce.

Products and Services

1. Ocean Freight

Sinotrans is one of the world's largest shipping agency service providers, handling more than 9 million TEUs of shipping containers annually. It is also China's largest non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC), providing full-process logistics and transportation services from major ports in China to major trading countries and regions in Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania, and responding to various challenges in shipping with efficient, reliable and flexible logistics services. Services include: container shipping agency, non-containerized cargo shipping agency, multimodal transport, and customs clearance services.

2. Air transport

Sinotrans has a sound air transport service network, which can provide customers with door-to-door services from China to more than 200 countries around the world. According to customers' different time requirements, products include: priority service, standard service, economy service, charter service, and cross-border e-commerce logistics.

3. Shipping agency

China Shipping Agency Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sinotrans, is one of the largest shipping agencies in China. Sinotrans provides customers with efficient, convenient and thoughtful shipping agency services in more than 70 major river and sea ports in China. Main service items: ship services, freight (passenger) services, supply services, and other services.

4. Dockyard

Sinotrans has abundant terminal and container terminal resources. These resources are an important support for us to provide high-quality and efficient freight and integrated logistics services, and are also an important platform for Sinotrans to provide public services to customers. Services include: terminal business and terminal business.

5. Road and rail transport

With a sound service network, Sinotrans provides customers with efficient road and rail transportation. Combining air and sea transportation services, Sinotrans provides customers with door-to-door multimodal transport solutions.

6. International Express

Sinotrans provides express services to more than 200 countries and regions around the world, with a guaranteed delivery time of 1 to 4 days for parcels/documents. For heavier goods, Sinotrans provides the most cost-effective economic express service through direct flights. Services include: Own dedicated export line - standard express, Own dedicated export line - economic express, Own dedicated import line - standard express.

7. Supply Chain Management

From the upstream suppliers to the downstream end users, Sinotrans provides customers with logistics management solutions for the entire supply chain. Sinotrans integrates basic businesses such as freight forwarding, warehousing, and transportation to provide customers with one-stop logistics services from international sea/land/air transportation, import and export customs clearance to domestic warehousing and transportation. While improving the overall efficiency of customers' supply chains, it helps customers reduce logistics costs.

8. Logistics Information System

Sinotrans provides customers with first-class integrated logistics solutions and full supply chain logistics information services with its industry-leading information system. Since 2011, the company has been rated as "China's Excellent Logistics Information Application Enterprise" by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing three times.

9. Supply Chain Security

Sinotrans firmly believes that safety is the foundation of successful supply chain management. Sinotrans' logistics experts provide customers with consulting services on relevant policies and regulations, helping customers reduce administrative costs and delays in the flow of goods. Sinotrans has a complete quality and safety management system, which has been certified by internationally renowned certification bodies such as ISO9001:2008, ISO14001:2004, and OHSAS18001:2007. Sinotrans implements standard operating procedures and safety operation management regulations throughout the network, and has formulated detailed and feasible emergency plans for each link of logistics to ensure the safety and efficient operation of goods.

Industry Solutions

1. Overview

Sinotrans will combine the core air transport, ocean transport, supply chain management and other services based on the logistics characteristics of the customer's products to tailor-make full-process logistics solutions and value-added solutions to meet the customer's needs.

2. Involved industries

Engineering and energy, chemical industry, automobiles and spare parts, electronic communications and high technology, fast-moving consumer goods and retail, exhibitions and non-trade products, and cold chain logistics.

Global Network

In China, Sinotrans' strong service network covers all provinces and regions in China, and its overseas network covers Asia, Africa, America, Europe and other regions. No matter when and where, Sinotrans will provide customers with high-quality logistics services that reach the world.

Corporate Culture

Corporate Vision

Initial vision: To be an internationally competitive and domestically leading integrated logistics service integrator.

Ultimate vision: To become a leading integrated logistics service platform enterprise at home and abroad.

Corporate Mission

Focus on customer needs and continuously create business value and social value with the best solutions and services.