| Understanding The Chinese
Logistics Fad |
| The Trends of Global
Transportation |
| From the RD
News Desk |
| With a global economy emerging whether
you like it or not, along with it comes global shipping and the
need for support and logistics. |
| UPS, FedEx and now Yellow
Roadway Corporation Worldwide (YRCW) is partnering
up with Chinese logistics companies in order to get
their foot in the door overseas. |
| YRCW,
and Shanghai Jin Jiang International Industrial
Investment Co., Ltd. ("Jin Jiang Investment")
finalized the formation of a China-based transportation
joint venture on September 1, 2005. Under the terms of
the joint venture, both YRCW and Jin Jiang Investment own
50% of JHJ International Transportation Co., Ltd.
("JHJ"), the freight forwarding subsidiary of
Jin Jiang Investment. |
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Based
in Shanghai, JHJ is the second largest air freight
forwarder in China. JHJ also offers ocean freight
forwarding and logistics services through a strong
domestic network of 25 locations, including 5 customs
warehouses adjacent to the Shanghai Pudong International
Airport.
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Recently Road
Drivers Weekly News commissioned a Chinese photographer in
Shanghai to seek out Jin Jiang in order to provide a
photo-journalist's outlook of the vast logistics services at
some of the ports in China. Click on the thumbnails below to enlarge the
photos...
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| Photographers comments... |
| The logistics company is located at the suburbia of northeast Shanghai and about 50-60
kilometers from Shanghai central. The local is known as the famous free trade district, “Shanghai Waigaoqiao
Free Trade Zone”. There are many container warehouses and famous logistics
companies, such as ‘P&O Nedlloyd’, located in this district. |
| I arrived about 12 o’clock, and took the
first picture. I didn’t want to be anxious to take the pictures around the front-gate,
so I just walked around the facility and took pictures as I strolled. The
facility is very wide, it took about one and a half hours to finish. |
| In thumbnail number four, a guidepost shows the department of the company, some of them are even
self-governed, rather than communist party controlled. |
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As you can see in the photo to
the left, unexpectedly, all of the pictures taken are without
any logo about the company on the containers or on the container
trucks. I don’t know why, but it’s true. |
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| Past reports of
interest... |
| YRC Finalizes China-Based Freight Forwarding Joint Venture
and Announces Logistics Joint Venture |
| Distribution
to China - Outsourcing
the freight dock worker |
| Report Links... |
| http://www.jhj.com.cn/english/index.asp |
| http://yrcw.com/ |
