Haotong International Transportation Agent Co., Ltd. was founded on May 3, 1996 and headquartered in Changsha, Hunan, with a registered capital of RMB30 million. The company has about 500 official employees, with all its management staff and 80% business and operation personnel holding junior college degree or above, and having necessary qualification certificates. Its business covers sea transportation, air transportation, customs broker and inspection, warehouse management, domestic transportation, international trade, supply chain management, information service, international express and insurance broker.
Ⅰ.Qualifications and Honors
Haotong International Transportation Agent Co., Ltd., as one of the first batch A-level international freight forwarders in China, passed ISO9001.2008 system certification in 2003, and has been rated as AAAA-level comprehensive service logistics enterprise, excellent customs broker enterprise in China, and council member of China Customs Brokers Association (CCBA), and its employee has been rated as “Excellent Customs Declarer in China” (the only one enterprise winning the title in Hunan Province). The company has a complete set of international freight forwarder qualifications, including Type 1 and Type 2 sales agent qualifications in civil air cargo transportation, NVOCC, transport license, international express service, customs broker, and vicarious CIQ declaration. Haotong, leveraging its advanced and scientific operation mode and integrated service, develops itself from a comprehensive service center enterprise licensed by Commerce Department and Finance Department of Hunan Province into a foreign trade comprehensive service enterprise integrating customs clearance, logistics, financing, tax reimbursement, settlement of exchange, insurance and other services in foreign trade. It has undertaken 34 industrial parks’ foreign trade comprehensive service in Hunan, and served more than 5,000 enterprises.
Ⅱ.Service Outlets
The company has quite complete domestic logistics network, with more than 50 cooperative branches. It has established three wholly-owned subsidiaries (i.e., Xiangtan Haotong International Logistics Co., Ltd., Haotong Supply Chain Management (Hunan) Co., Ltd., and Changde Haotong Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd.) and several wholly-owned branches in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Hong Kong, Kunming, Shaoxing, Hubei, Changsha, Zhuzhou, Chenzhou, Xiangtan, Yueyang, Shaoyang, Loudi, Yongzhou, etc. In addition, it has set up customs and CIQ declaration brokers in Shanghai, Shaoxing, Hubei, Changsha, Yueyang, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, Loudi, Shaoyang, Yongzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, aiming to developing the company’s business, and providing customers with comprehensive one-stop foreign trade and supply chain services. The company has more than 50,000 m2 leased warehouse, with its own warehousing project under preparation, and more than 500 self-owned and leased operating vehicles.
Ⅲ.Overseas Network
The company has complete overseas logistics network, with agencies in European region: Germany, Belgium, France and Britain; American region: the United States, Mexico and Canada; Asian region: Singapore, South Korea and Japan; Oceania region: Australia; African region: South Africa.
Ⅳ.Business Introduction
1. Sea Transportation
Haotong has undertaken introduction of complete set of imported equipment for many large-scale enterprises, and successfully completed transportation of various items, varying from whole factory relocation to single item of precision equipment, from ultra-wide, long and high cumbersome equipment to general equipment, according to Chinese consignees’ requirement, with rich transportation experience of special goods. Besides, the company serves as a professional agent of cargo transportation for importing and exporting goods to and from ports across the world, including booking cargo space, loading, less-than-container load, and chartering of export and import containers. It provides one-stop services of cargo collection, booking cargo space, warehousing, transit shipment, less-than-container load, customs broker, CIQ broker, insurance and transportation from inland to port, as well as provides “door-to-door” transportation of containers and bulk cargo. The company provides customers with international multimodal transport services, such as direct transport and through transport, by virtue of its strong system network.
2.Air Transportation
The company provides direct and transshipment air transportation services to main cities in the worlds. Its fixed time/flight less-container load service significantly saves enterprises’ transportation costs. In addition, it provides customs clearance, distribution and relevant services at port of destination, multimodal transport of land and air, and sea and air, local customs clearance, customs transit, warehousing, distribution and tracking services of imported goods’ air transportation, as well as express agent service of DHL, UPS, FedEx and TNT.
3.Domestics Logistics
Haotong adopts networked computer technology, modern hardware and software system, and advanced management methods to provide one-stop logistics services of preparation, processing, sorting, allocation, packaging, distribution and delivery in line with the customers’ industrial characteristics and demands, as well as the users’ requirements on ordering, replacement and refund, so as to reduce customers’ warehousing and transportation costs and relieve their logistics burden.
In order to meet the rapid development of domestic logistics business, Haotong International Transportation Agent Co., Ltd. set up a wholly-owned independent logistics subsidiary in Changsha in 2013, with a registered capital of RMB5 million. It has leased a warehouse of 10,000 m2 (double-deck), and is preparing to build its own warehouse.
4. Customs and CIQ Declaration Broker
The company has set up customs and CIQ declaration brokers in Shanghai, Shaoxing, Hubei, Changsha, Yueyang, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, Loudi, Shaoyang, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Over the years, the company has trained and attracted a batch of professional and excellent customs declarer under guidance and strong support of Customs authorities, obtained highly recognition from various parties by its professional skills and superior services, and been rated as Authorized Economic Operator by Changsha Customs. In the 3rd “Double Excellence Evaluation Competition” organized by CCBA, Hong Yingzi, the company’s customs declarer, won the honorary title “Excellent Customs Declarer in China”, being the only one winning the title in Hunan Province by her outstanding comprehensive skills. Its customs and CIQ declaration team are equipped with solid professional knowledge and skills, as well as strong service awareness and action.
During its business operation processes, Haotong has successfully accomplished various transportation tasks, and obtained trust and recognition from customers by its optimal logistic methods, elaborately designed transportation schemes and careful implementation based on full use of its experienced overseas agents to cooperate with internationally famous shipping companies/airlines, close cooperation with its domestic branches, enterprise spirits of preciseness, science, safety first and customer foremost and good collaboration and strong support from customs, commodity inspection and quarantine authorities.
In order to meet the demands of business development and promote service upgrading, Haotong established its website (www.hital.com) in 2000, gradually developed internal management system, international freight logistics software, warehouse and financial management software, standardized operations of various branches, realized computer network management and paperless office. Besides, it made the company management and operation more standard and scientific, and further improved its comprehensive strength.
Xiangtan Branch of Haotong International Transportation Agent Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned branch of Haotong set up in Xiangtan, and has business department, operation department, customs declaration department and finance department, with its office located in Room 406, Comprehensive Service Building, Xiangtan Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Jiuhua Economic Development Zone, Xiangtan, Hunan. Since its establishment, it has upheld the service principles of “Quality First, Customer Foremost”, with its business volume and scale increasing year by year, and management being more standard. It has imposed stringent requirements on service quality, and achieved stable development. During its business operation processes, Xiangtan Branch has successfully accomplished various transportation tasks, and obtained trust and recognition from local customers by its optimal logistic methods, elaborately designed transportation schemes and careful implementation based on full use of its experienced overseas agents to cooperate with internationally famous shipping companies/airlines, close cooperation with the company’s domestic branches, enterprise spirits of preciseness, science, safety first and customer foremost and good collaboration and strong support from customs, commodity inspection and quarantine authorities.
Xiangtan Branch of Haotong International Transportation Agent Co., Ltd. established Xiangtan Haotong International Logistics Co., Ltd. in Comprehensive Bonded Standard Warehouse, Jiuhua Demonstration Zone, Xiangtan in May 2015 in order to support the business in comprehensive zone and provide convenient supporting service to enterprises following the operation of XTCBZ on April 20, 2015. Xiangtan Haotong has 353m2 business place, and undertakes such services as logistics distribution, mechanical equipment leasing, software R&D and sales, logistics scheme design, sea and air transportation of imported and exported cargo, and international forwarding agent services of international exhibitions and transit goods, including cargo collection, booking cargo space, warehousing, transit, less-than container load, freight and miscellaneous charges settlement, customs declaration, inspection declaration, insurance, consultation service, and import & export service.
Haotong Logistics Company provides service for enterprises’ supply chain management. XTCBZ has 4 functional zones, including bonded processing zone, bonded logistics zone, customs clearance zone and comprehensive service zone, providing functions of international ports, such as bonded service, warehousing, customs clearance, commodity inspection and quarantine. Haotong, as an enterprise in XTCBZ, provides enterprises with such bonded logistics and processing services as warehousing, distribution, domestic and overseas logistics, transit trade, one-day tour operation, and undertakes such services as logistics scheme design, sea and air transportation of imported and exported cargo, and international forwarding agent services of international exhibitions and transit goods, and cross-border e-commerce, including cargo collection, booking cargo space, warehousing, transit, less-than container load, freight and miscellaneous charges settlement, customs declaration, inspection declaration, insurance, consultation service, and import & export service.
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