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CUL Shining Shipping Celebrates 5th Anniversary of Founding

2020-11-02

Five Years of Common Growth

CUL Shining Shipping Co., Ltd. was established on October 29, 2015, as a subsidiary held and operated by China United Lines Ltd. (CULines).

CUL Shining Shipping is mainly engaged in the barge transportation of containers and bulk cargoes in the Yangtze River. It owns dozens of self-operated barges and is able to dispatch more than 300 barges.

01 Containers: branch lines for domestic trade along the Yangtze River

CUL Shining Shipping owns a branch line network connecting Shanghai to the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River to serve domestic trade. It is also in partnership with a number of Chinese trunk line shipping companies specializing in coastal domestic trade to offer container liner services along Chinese coastal ports – transit in Shanghai (Taicang) – Jiangsu – Anhui – Jiangxi – Hubei – Hunan – Sichuan/ Chongqing.

Caption: CUL Shining Shipping’s branch line network for domestic trade in the Yangtze River

CUL Shining Shipping has signed loading/ unloading and connection agreements for both domestic and foreign trade with major ports along the Yangtze River, and entered into transportation agreements with leading freight forwarders at these ports. To deliver timely and effective services to local customers, it has also reached CCA with several foreign trunk line shipping operators.

It has set up offices along the Yangtze River, i.e. Shanghai – Jiangsu – Anhui (Wuhu, Tongling, Anqing) – Jiangxi (Jiujiang, Nanchang) – Hunan (Yueyang, Changsha), Hubei (Wuhan, Jingzhou, Yichang) – Sichuan/ Chongqing (Chongqing). Thus, its shipping schedule and local services are well received among customers.

Thanks to the government's preferential marine-rail transport policy, CUL Shining Shipping is allowed to provide multimodal transportation services across the Yangtze River Basin. With marine-rail connected transportation, customers can enjoy one-stop trade channel services in inland areas.

02 Bulk cargoes

CUL Shining Shipping’s bulk cargo business is focused on grain transportation. So far, it has signed long-term cooperation agreements with many merchants and purchasers in China, including XMXYG, Xiamen ITG, China South Grain[A1] , COFCO Malt (Jiangyin), Anhui Haida, Jiangxi Zhengbang, Shuangbaotai Group (Twins Group), Muyuan Group, and Shenyang Huarong. Having been providing transportation services for these clients for years, it is delivering a total transportation volume of over one million tons each year.

CUL Shining Shipping is operating bulk cargo business in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Zhejiang, Chongqing, Sichuan, and other locations. Its line network covers the trunk line of the Yangtze River and its tributaries, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, the Ganjiang River, the Xiangjiang River, Huaihe River, etc. In some key ports, it also owns exclusive loading/ unloading berths.

For the purpose of systematic management, CUL Shining Shipping has developed and launched a WeChat mini-program, which allows it to better serve the upstream and downstream customers along the branch lines of the Yangtze River. By greatly improving service efficiency, it has also won the trust of customers.

The mini-program allows customers to directly submit vessel information or select pallets according to vessel conditions via mobile devices. After submission, customer requests will be processed as soon as possible

Shareholders and all staff of CUL Shining Shipping gathered together to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its founding.

Raymond Chen, Chairman of CULines, Kevin Ding, Executive Vice President of CULines and Chairman of CUL Shining Shipping, and Guo Qingxi, General Manager of CUL Shining Shipping, cut the birthday cake together and made wishes for a brighter future for the company.