A nice business trip to the TransRussia!

Do you know about the TransRussia?

Whether you knew it or not, you will know it from now on!

TransRussia: The largest exhibition for Transport and Logistics services and Technologies in Russia.

 

Benefits of taking part in TransRussia exhibition: 

1.Opportunity to increase sales and expand customer base:

Plenty of visitors: Due to the large number of professional visitors at the exhibition, participation in TransRussia opens access to new potential customers.

High quality of visitors: Visitors of TransRussia are specialists of the transport and logistics industry, interested in finding partners for the construction of the supply chain, and the end users of transport and logistics services – cargo owners (trade and manufacturing companies).

2.Opportunity to enter the Russian market: The vast majority of visitors are representatives of Moscow and Moscow region and 75 regions of Russia.

3.Opportunity to negotiate and agree on cooperation:

High interest of visitors to the products and services of the participants.

Visitors are decision-makers in the company.

So our company—-G.H Forwarding, Of course, will not miss the opportunity to attend the 24th TransRussia exhibition in Moscow from 15th to 17th April,2019!

 

Now let me show you our team’s business trip to Moscow for the TransRussia.

Our team members, from left to right are: Ann, Lisa, Ashley, Vicky, Anthony and Kuroky(behind).

 

Our team arrived in Moscow on April 9th after a ten-hour flight. And they visited lots of our good partners in Russia before the official start of the TransRussia exhibition.

On the way to TransRussia exhibition.

We seriously pay attention to our own image, be full of energy and behave in a civilized manner during the business trip for the TransRussia in Moscow. Because we know that good spirit not only reflects the company’s vitality and vigorous atmosphere, but also shows the good quality of ourselves to the customers and enhances the confidence of customers to cooperate with us.

Participating in the professional industry exhibition, G.H Forwarding can not only show its own business strength in the same industry, but also serve customers more closely. We can also see our own shortcomings from the same participating customers and constantly improve ourselves.

At the exhibition, there is not only active communication and exchange of information between business people, but also entertainment programs for us to enjoy, in order to alleviate our fatigue for a while and promote the enthusiasm of everyone.

Perhaps from a certain exhibition, can not immediately see the results and receive a lot of orders. But we believe that through the company’s publicity and promotion, coupled with the subsequent development work, the more communication with all aspects of the information industry and make professional exhibition real service to our business promotion, the performance of the service attitude and show the strength of our company, then make G.H Forwarding business spreads all over China, towards the world!

10th Global Freight Forwarders Conference 2019

The 10th Global Freight Forwarders Conference 2019 will be held in KL, Malaysia from Apr. 24 to Apr. 26! Forwarders from all over the world will converged on KL for this summit and discuss new opportunities of business development face to face.

Thanks the organizer, JCtrans Logistics Network (www.jctrans.net),  a global logistics network connect us together!

With no doubt that we G.H FORWARDING, as a JCtrans GCP member, will attend this conference in KL!

Our G.H FORWARDING was established in 1992. We can offer you the services below!

– NVOCC logistic services

– Sea & Air freight forwardings

– Import and export customs clearance

– Inland delivery service

– Bonded warehouse

– Cargo insurance

– Door-to-door solutions for logistics projects

– Chongqing railway service

– Direct booking agent of below carriers:

The most popular part of this conference is the ‘one-to-one meeting’. If you haven’t make a one-to-one meeting with us, it’s also welcome to meet us when we have tea break. We are ready for your coming!

During the conference, as always, we will be dressed in black and red chequered shirt, so it would be easy for you to find us!

Come and communicate with us, let see how to cooperate together! 🙂

Happy 2019 Annual Dinner in Ningbo

Time flies and a new year comes. Looking back in 2018, under the leadership of the company and the unity and cooperation of all employees, all departmentshave worked hard and tried their best to achieve the target. 2018 is a meaningful, valuable and rewarding year.

 

In order to celebrate the start of a new year in the Chinese calendar and also to enhance group cohesion, every year G.H forwarding flies all employees to Ningbo to attend the company annual dinner with the theme “Unity isStrength” on the evening of 23rd February, 2019.

 

So employees from Shanghai, Qingdao, Tianjin, Guangzhou and also Vietnam flew over to participate!  Similar to last year, half of the 200+ people that attended we employees and the remaining half are our distinguished guests, local partners and shipping lines whom we work with.  It’s also a time for us to give thanks for their support throughout the year.

 

Throughout the dinner there were performances from 5 different departments and also games which required participation from the audience.  All in all it was a fantastic evening.

 

Let us review some of the wonderful moments together!!

Our lovely chairman, Mr. Zhou lingfeng

A special present for our client

A traditional song of China “The unity is strength” sang by all Customer service team

Our Southeast Asia group’s show: Knocking drums and singing

Russia team and Import team were dancing together

Beautiful song by Vietnam branch office

An interesting game in annual diner

The lucky game winner got the lucky money

Toasting together

Our general manager with black T-shirt thanking for all colleagues

Guangzhou branch office

Russia team with our chairman

Welcome to 2019!

 

Hope we can grow together and get more business in 2019!

The Spring Festival in China

This year, the Spring Festival (otherwise known as Chinese New Year) falls on 05.Feb.2019 in China and if you are familiar with China, you will know that there is an official week long public holiday from 04-10.Feb.

In the Shipping & Logistics Industry

For those of us in the shipping and logistics industry, it means that the world’s largest factory will be shut down for over a month since a lot of factories will close and allow workers to celebrate the year’s most important public holiday in full.

Any last minute shipments being ordered now will be faced with a scramble for overbooked vessels.  As truck drivers prepare to go back to their home towns, the ones that remain to earn a bit more before leaving, will charge an extra premium for service since they know there will be a shortage of drivers.  It’s ironic, but there will be no shortage of trucks for shipments, but there will be a shortage of drivers.

On a lighter note…

Here are some things that you may not know about the Spring Festival holiday in China:

1. It is observed on a different date every year

There’s no set date for the Spring Festival as its set according to the lunar calendar and lasts from the 1st (according to the lunar calendar) until the 15th which will be a full moon.  Typically, Chinese New Year ranges between 21.Jan to 20.Feb every year.

2. The most fireworks are set off that night in the world!

According to a Chinese myth, a monster called Nian (年,the Chinese word for year), would come around every Chinese New Year’s Eve and everyone would be so scared, they would stay inside their homes.  However, there was a boy who was brave enough to scare him off with firecrackers.  The next day, everyone celebrated with firecrackers and the practice became a important part of Chinese New Year celebrations.

3. But it’s not legal everywhere…

In recent times due to safety concerns and also pollution, more and more cities in China have been banned from using fireworks, more than 500 cities have restrictions too.

In Beijing, it was banned for 13 years, however the people eventually reacted negatively to this and it was eventually lifted in 2006.

If you happen to be in China during Chinese New Year, you will notice that during the celebrations, there’ll be at least 3 days where you hear a lot of fireworks going off.  Sometimes this can last for weeks depending on where you are.

4. It’s the longest and most popular Chinese holiday

In different parts of China, celebrations can go on for up to 40 days – mostly in the rural areas, people will celebrate it for longer.  Traditionally, it’s a time spent with family and you only really go out to meet other people after the 5th day.  You will notice a lot of shopping malls closed during this time.

The closest thing that Western culture has to this is Christmas time where people will move heaven and earth to get home for that Christmas meal with family.  Chinese New Year is like an extended version of this.

5. It’s also a time to eat, eat, eat…

Traditionally, you should be eating dumplings every day – however with all the delicious food available, nowadays people rarely do this.  Most however, still eat dumplings for breakfast or for the New Years Eve dinner.

6. The largest human migration in the world

Every year during this time marks the beginning of the world’s largest human migration as everyone makes their way home from their place of work to be with their families for the New Year’s Eve dinner.  Most elderly parents live in rural villages while their children go to the cities to work and hence everything stops in China as masses of people make their long journey home.

Train tickets are only available 60 days before departure, so you can imagine the rush to get tickets.  In 2015 it was recorded that 1,000 train tickets were sold every second in the New Year rush.

7. No showering, throwing out garbage, or sweeping

You cannot shower on New Year’s Day, nor can you sweep or throw out garbage before the 5th.  You make up for this by having a big spring clean of your home before the new year – this is geared towards sweeping away all the bad luck and making room for good luck in the new year.

Other things considered as “taboo” during the new year includes:

– Having a haircut

– Using scissors or other sharp items

– Swearing or arguing with others

– Saying or talking about negative/unlucky topics like “death” and “sickness”.

– Breaking things

8. Giving and receiving “lucky money” in little red envelopes/packets

You will see a lot of this happening if you are in China.  Children are given red packets which contain money which is supposed to help transfer fortune from elders to Children.  They can also be given between bosses, employees, co-workers and friends.

As a general rule, technically if you’re married, you should be giving red packets to those who are not married yet.  Though aside from the exceptions mentioned above, elders will still give to their sons, daughters and those who are younger and close to them even if they are already married.  Those providing a service e.g. security guards working in your apartment complex, compound or workplace will also be given some from the people they may see every day.  So during this time, you will notice that they are extra nice with their service to you during this time.

So I hope you now know a bit more about the Spring Festival and Chinese New Year.  Finishing off this article with how Chinese New Year ends… with the first full moon of the new lunar new year.  This is celebrated as the Yuanxiao Festival (元宵节) or Lantern Festival.

It is a night of partying and freedom – but not in the way we understand these words nowadays.  In ancient times, girls weren’t allowed to venture outside by themselves, however on this day, they were allowed to do so, so many would walk around outside to enjoy the atmosphere and gaze at the beautiful full moon and lanterns which are hung out everywhere.  For this reason, it is also known as Valentine’s Day in China.

If there is a Chinese New Year celebration where you are this year, you can attend the celebrations knowing that bit much more about exactly how to celebrate it correctly 🙂

References:

1. Chinese New Year Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

2. 21 Things you didn’t know about Chinese New Year:https://chinesenewyear.net/21-things-you-didnt-know-about-chinese-new-year/

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The highlights of 2018

2018 was a great year for our company, we have grown in every aspect, but most of all we have grown as a team.

 

The company is nothing without the people in it so here we take a look at the highlights of each of our offices throughout 2018.

2018 Ningbo Run in New Year

Ningbo Annual dinner and party in 2018

Beautiful Womens day

Ningbo headquarter made a sightseeing tour

Shanghai branch office had a nice spring tour

Guangzhou branch office had a sea adventure

Qingdao branch office had a outing in May day

GLA conference in OCT. in Shenzhen

Our Vietnam branch office is 1 year old

Team building weekend in December

Christmas party and Merry Christmas!

So 2018 was a hard working but fun packed year.

 

I’m sure 2019 will be an even more exciting and challenging year!

 

Let’s see what we can achieve together!

Professional Logistics for Southeast Asia from GH Forwarding!

GH Forwarding was established in 1992, we have more than 25 years experience in this industry. Southeast Asia is always our focus area since it’s such a place full of potential.

Southeast Asia is a critical part of the world trading system, a wide range of commodities originated in this region. With such rich resource, Southeast Asia is a treasure land for a lot of industries, full of business opportunities. Good transportation and the trend of globalization make the logistics industry develop more and more rapidly in this area.

In order to follow the “Belt And Road” policy, our GH Forwarding sincere hope we can have more interaction with Southeast Asia agents and India, Bangladesh agents. Hopefully we can have a long term cooperation and communication. GH Forwarding, always your reliable partner in China.

We regular work with shipping lines below:

Of course we are not limited to these shipping lines, just at your requests. Feel free to contact us, we will show you what we’ve got!

-DDU, DDP terms.

-Import&Export.

-Sea, Air and Railway.

-Direct booking agents of several shipping lines.

-Competitive Tier 1 rates.

-Quality Customs Services.

 

We are always ready for you. GH Forwarding, your agent in China!

China will import more Tropical Fruit from the Philippines

On 20th  Nov 2018, President Xi paid a state visit to the Philippines. This is the second visit of the Chinese head of state 13 years later and also the first visit of President Xi to the Philippines. Therefore, this state visit is a milestone in enhancing China-Philippines relations.

So what can we benefit from the visit this time? Let me tell you more about it! A statement has been issued by China and the Philippines on 21st Nov. China will speed up the process of certification and expand the import of more the Philippines tropical fruits and other high-quality agricultural products. That means we can enjoy more delicious fruits with high quality from the Philippines!

GH forwarding has been working on the import logistics from the Philippines to China for over 3 years now! No matter the delivery or the local port services and customs clearance, we can provide you the most suitable services. We are proud that we can be a part of it to develop the economic and trade development between China and the Philippines, and also appreciate that we can get support from our best clients! Let’s progress together!

The 2nd China(Ningbo) International Shipping Logistics Fair

The 2018 “Belt and Road” Port Cooperation Summit Forum & The 2nd China(Ningbo) International Shipping Logistics Fair will be held in Ningbo during 10th Dec – 12nd Dec. The theme of this fair is “Active Integration Into The Belt And Road Linking China Connecting The World”. More than 300 overseas agents and over 500 domestic agents will take part in this fair. It would be a great chance for all of us to develop business together and have a further connection with each other.

Meanwhile, GH Forwarding will also be at the fair as an exhibitor. We sincerely invite you to visit our booth, the booth No. Is 5B105. We can have more communication with each other.

GH Forwarding was established in 1992. It is authorised by the Ministry of Commerce as a Class 1 booking agent in China, also a certified NVOCC, authorised by China’s Ministry of Communications. We are offering a comprehensive set of services within China. Main business scope includes Sea freight, import and export customs clearance, inland delivery service, bonded warehouse, cargo insurance. Also a direct booking agent of Shipping lines like MSK, SEALAND, CMA, ANL, CNC, COSCO, YML, HEUNG-A, SKR, HMM, SASCO, FESCO.

Further more, we are members of WCA and JCTrans(GCP) with strong overseas network resources. Our headquarter is in Ningbo with Branches in Qingdao, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Vietnam, covering the basic ports in China and Vietnam which means we can help you to handle shipment from most of the areas in China. We are your strong and reliable partner in China!

Don’t hesitate to visit our booth, we will be waiting for you 🙂

Tianjin Port

Tianjin Port, also known as Tianjin Xingang (XINGANG, CHINA), is located at the western end of the Bohai Bay in Tianjin Binhai New Area. It is backed by Xiong’an New District, radiating northeast, north, northwest and other inland areas in China and also connecting Northeast Asia with Central and western Asia. It is themaritime gateway to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the starting point of the eastern part of the Sino-Mongolian-Russian economic corridor, the importance of the New Eurasian Continental Bridge, and the support point for strategy of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

As a world-class artificial deep-water port, Tianjin Port has 176 berth points for containers, ores, coal, coke, crude oil and products, steel, large equipment,rolling stock cars, liquefied natural gas, bulk grain, international cruises and other types of berths, 122 of which are over 10,000 tons.

In 2016, Tianjin Port’s cargo handling capacity exceeded 550 million tons, ranking fifth in the world; container throughput exceeded 14.5 million TEUs, ranking 10th in the world.

Panorama of Tianjin port

It consists of five port areas: The Beijang Port Area mainly focuses on container and groceries; Nanjiang Port Area is engaged in dry bulk and liquid bulk cargo; Dongjiang Port Area is mainly engaged in container loading and unloading, international shipping, international logistics, international trade, offshore finance and other modern service industries and its eastern region is improving the supporting functions of the city; Southern Area of Lingang Economic Zone takes heavy equipment manufacturing, new energy, grain and oil light industry as the main development direction; The Eastern Part of Nangang Port Area is a new port area dominated by bulk commodities such as coal and ore. So Tianjin port is vast with land-water region area and rich with shoreline resources.

General layout plan of Tianjin port

Tianjin Port has extensive trade with more than 500 ports and more than 180 countries and regions in the world. It has 120 container liner routes and more than 550 monthly flights. It is connected to all major ports in the world and has strong internal radiation, with nearly 5 million square kilometers area, accounting for 52% of the country’s total area. About 70% of the cargo and more than 50% of import and export value come from other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.

Route of Tianjin port

As the only port which has three transit routes for Eurasian Continental Bridges in China, it has a perfect service functions and strong regional radiation capacity. The Tianjin International Trade and Shipping Service Center has been established as the largest “one-stop” shipping service center in China. Also, Tianjin port has successfully implemented a “three-in-one” customs clearance mode for one declaration, one checking and one release. The customs clearance environment will be continuously optimized. The container throughput of Tianjin Port will reach 17 million TEU in 2020.

The terminal of Tianjin port

G.H Forwarding Tianjin branch, will provide you with a variety of services, including booking, freight forwarding, bonded warehouse, import and export customs clearance. We have a good relationship and cooperation with many shipping lines, like MSK, SEALAND, COSCO, CMA, CNC, ANL. We canprovide cost-saving and efficient services to our clients withadvantageous resources. Our aim is to treat our clients seriously and have a good attitude with any problems. We are focused on good service and quality.

 

G.H Forwarding Tianjin branch, reliable and experienced freight forwarding, which is your best choice in the Tianjin area.

Hope to cooperate with all of you!

Enjoy your life, make labor Easier

International Workers’ Day, also known as Workers’ Day and Labor Day in China and it often referred to as May Day as well. It’s a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement which occurs every year on May Day (1 May).

 

We will day off from 1st,May to 4th, May, 2019. In this period, if any questions, we can not reply quickly, please understand that if we don’t reply quickly.

Trust G.H Forwarding as your agent in China, make your shipments safe and effective!

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