Sinotrans Limited

Sinotrans
中国外运股份有限公司
Company typeState-owned enterprise
SEHK598
IndustryShipping and Logistics
Founded2002
Headquarters,
Area served
People's Republic of China
Key people
Chairman: Mr. Wang Hong [1]
Revenue72.567 billion renminbi (2015)[2]
Number of employees
23,971[3]
ParentChina Merchants Group through Sinotrans&CSC Group
Websitewww.sinotrans.com

Sinotrans Limited (commonly referred to as Sinotrans) is one of the largest logistics companies in China.[4] The business areas of the company include storage and terminal services and trucking and marine transportation.[5]

Operations

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Sinotrans operates railway freight connections from four centers in China. The operation centers are in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan in Guangdong, and in Changsha, Hunan.[6] The international railway freight network is an implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative. Among the China-Europe express freight train routes is a link between Shenzhen and Duisburg, which travels through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland.[7] In Southeast Asia, Sinotrans established a service between Shenzhen and Vientiane in December 2021 after the opening of the Boten–Vientiane railway with the newly opened segment also forming a continuous railway route between Singapore and Portugal.[8][9]

History

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The company was incorporated in 2002 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2003 as a vehicle for the core business, assets and staff of the state-owned China National Foreign Trade Transportation (Group) Corporation. In 2009 the company was reorganised together with the China Changjiang National Shipping (Group) Corporation (CSC) to form Sinotrans&CSC Holdings.[10]

A strategic merger of this new company together with China Merchants Group received approval from the State Council of the People's Republic of China in December 2015, and by April 2017 Sinotrans Limited (and its former subsidiary Sinotrans Shipping) had become direct subsidiaries of China Merchants Group.[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Board of Directors". Retrieved 2018-12-06.
  2. ^ "Financial Summary". Retrieved 2018-12-06.
  3. ^ "Company Profile". Retrieved 2018-12-06.
  4. ^ "Sinotrans Ltd". Reuters. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Company Profile for Sinotrans Ltd". Bloomberg. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  6. ^ "Sinotrans's four China-Europe freight trains head for European destinations". New Silkroad Discovery.
  7. ^ "Chinese partners launch new China – Laos rail service". Container News. December 28, 2021.
  8. ^ "You can now travel all the way from Portugal to Singapore by train". The Independent. December 14, 2021.
  9. ^ "About Us". Company Profile. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
  10. ^ Lee, Hong Liang (2017-04-11). "China Merchants, Sinotrans & CSC complete strategic reorganisation". Seatrade Maritime News. Retrieved 2018-12-06.