Country Introduction

Located in East Asia, on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has a land area of about 9.6 million square kilometers and is the third-largest country in the world, respectively following Russia and Canada. China is home to 1.3 billion people and is the fastest-growing country in Eastern Asia. Since 1979, great changes have taken place in China’s import and export trade. Opening to the outside world has greatly promoted the development of China’s foreign trade.

The Chinese mainland is flanked to the east and south by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas, with a total maritime area of 4.73 million sqm. China’s mainland coast is over 18,000 km long, and its rivers total 220,000 km in length. Such excellent natural conditions provide convenience for developing inland river transport and ocean shipping.

2003-2012 China Top 10 Container Ports and Container Cargo Throughput (per 1,000 TEUs)

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Coverage of OOCL China and Supply Chain Management

OOCL is one of the few international container transport and logistics service providers to offer truly comprehensive service in China, offers customers unequalled expertise in the fastest-growing market in the world.

OOCL operated 33 weekly fixed-day services, calling at the ports of Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo and Xiamen in NPRC. Internationally, OOCL provides fast, reliable links between China and North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the rest of the world.

OOCL (China) Ltd.’s headquarters is located in Shanghai with a total of 25 branch companies and representative offices in Beijing, Dalian, Shenyang, Tianjin, Qingdao, Lianyungang, Suzhou, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Nantong, Zhangjiagang, Hefei, Changsha, Nanchang Wuhan, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Yiwu, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Xian, Chengdu, Chongqing and Zhengzhou. OOCL (HK) Ltd.’s headquarters is in Hong Kong with 9 branch companies in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhongshan, Shantou, Kunming, Zhanjiang, Haikou, Foshan and Macau.

OOCL is renowned for its pioneering approach to developing intermodal connections and our intermodal network in China is the best in the industry. All means of intermodal transport are carefully integrated with trunk ocean services to offer seamless connections across continents, using feeder services, barges, trucks and unit trains.

OOCL was the first international container transportation and logistics service provider to initiate a “Go West” program in China in 1995 by establishing an office in Xian. OOCL is also the pioneer of the “Reefer on Rail (ROR) service” which began in December 1998 from Xian to Qingdao. More recently, we launched another ROR service from Xian to Shanghai which enables fresh produce from inland China to reach its intended marketplaces in North America, Asia and Europe with greater efficiency.