Sinotrans Container Lines Co., Ltd.

Sinotrans Limited

Type	State-owned enterprise
Traded as	SEHK: 598
Industry	Shipping and Logistics
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Beijing , People's Republic of China
Area served	People's Republic of China
Key people	Chairman: Mr. Wang Hong
Revenue	72.567 billion renminbi (2015)
Number of employees	23,971
Parent	China Merchants Group through Sinotrans&CSC Group
Website	www.sinotrans.com

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 Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan in Guangdong, and in Changsha, Hunan. 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. 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.

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 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 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.