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

Operations

Sinotrans operates railway freight connections from four centers in China. The operation centers are in

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Shenzhen Shenzhen is a prefecture-level city in the province of Guangdong, China. A Special economic zones of China, special economic zone, it is located on the east bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of Guangdong ...

and

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, and in

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Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

. The international railway freight network is an implementation of the

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. Among the China-Europe express freight train routes is a link between

and

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, which travels through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland. In Southeast Asia, Sinotrans established a service between Shenzhen and

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in December 2021 after the opening of the

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with the newly opened segment also forming a continuous railway route between Singapore and Portugal.

History

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 State ownership, also called public ownership or government ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, property, or enterprise by the national government of a country or state, or a public body representing a community, as opposed to ...

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. A strategic merger of this new company together with

China Merchants Group China Merchants Group Limited ( zh, first=s, s=招商局集团, p=Zhaoshangju Jituan) is a state-owned enterprise (SOE) of the People's Republic of China. The company operates under the auspices of the Chinese Ministry of Transport. Founded in ...

received approval from the

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in December 2015, and by April 2017 Sinotrans Limited (and its former subsidiary Sinotrans Shipping) had become direct subsidiaries of

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Companies based in Beijing Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Government-owned companies of China Logistics companies of China H shares 2002 establishments in China {{China-company-stub Container shipping companies Container shipping companies of China 2002 in Beijing

Operations

History

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