As a key enterprise in Shenyang City, Huatong Logistics is dedicated to the meticulous operation of the automotive supply chain. It currently owns nearly 1.1 million square meters of modern intelligent warehousing centers in Shenyang, Ningbo, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, among which nearly 400,000 square meters are self-owned properties serving as a warehousing service center specifically built for BMW China. Huatong Logistics has rich and professional operational experience in warehousing, transportation, and value-added services.In 2019, in order to achieve information-based and automated intelligent logistics, the company independently developed the RFID technology for vehicle logistics. By using RFID scanning technology to collect information of the vehicles, it automatically assigns them to storage, tracks their delivery, conducts inventory counting, and makes intelligent judgments based on algorithms designed in the TIM system. This technology significantly enhances logistics efficiency and data accuracy, achieving error-free warehousing and transportation throughout the year in the entire storage area.
Since 2019, Huatong Logistics has focused on network modeling, with road transportation as the main backbone and multimodal transportation as a synergy, to build a nationwide transportation network that covers all levels of market terminals. This network enables the company to provide services with a delivery time of T+3 to stores. In recent years, the company has made significant investments in the operation of LNG new energy and electric trucks, leading the industry’s development, promoting ecological conservation, enhancing core competitiveness, and fulfilling corporate social responsibilities.
The Brilliance BMW Dadong PDA is located on Xuansheng Road, Dadong District, Shenyang City. It is customized by Huatong Automotive Logistics Co., Ltd.
The Ningbo Operations Center is located in the Meishan Port area of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Group in Zhejiang Province. It is situated in the eastern part of Ningbo, and is at the core of the Yangtze River Delta region. It serves as a hub for the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port.
The Chengdu Operations Center is located in the Modern Public Railway Logistics Park in Pengshan District, Meishan City, Tianfu New Area, Sichuan Province.The transportation network mainly covers nearly 80 dealerships in Yunnan Province, Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province, and Chongqing City,.
The Zhengzhou Operations Center is located in Xinxiang City, Henan Province, which is an important comprehensive transportation hub in China with convenient access to various regions.
In order to actively respond to national policies, reduce air pollution, and reduce dependence on imported petroleum, Huatong Logistics has introduced electric trucks for short-distance transportation. At the same time, in order to implement the national carbon neutrality and peak carbon emissions goals, as well as the 14th Five-Year Plan, and support customers’ sustainable development strategies, Huatong actively promotes hydrogen-powered trucks. They have established the “Huatong Green Supply Chain Zero Emissions” project, invested in charging stations, and constructed integrated energy stations.
Strengthen the application of big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain and Internet of Things in the field of transportation services, accelerate the integration and development of transportation service networks and information networks, and promote the development of data resources-enabled transportation services. Use online assessment, paperless warehousing, warehousing wisdom perception and other systems, and electronic technology with big data as the core to achieve full information coverage of finished vehicle business.
Promote the development of combined transport of railways & shipping and road & railways, strengthen the capacity building of railway + road transport and shipping transport + road transport, innovate the development model of "trunk multimodal transport + regional distribution", further promote the construction of multimodal transport demonstration projects, and build a multimodal transport network with multi-channel integration and coordinated linkage.
In-transit visual monitoring can grasp the safety dynamics of transported goods. Vehicle in-transit GPS transmits positioning data and monitors the running track in transit. Through capturing drivers’ behavior data, in-transit visual monitoring can be used to remind the safe driving state. On-line driver training is used to improve business skills and safety awareness. Closed-loop management of inspection and tracking, inspection, and supervision in the whole process of transportation.
RFID is a non-contact automatic identification technology, which can automatically identify the target object (electronic tag) through radio frequency signals and obtain or record relevant data. The identification process does not require manual intervention and can work in various harsh environments. RFID reader is used to identify electronic tags, read, or write data, the accuracy will reach 99.99%, and the efficiency of vehicle entry and exit will be greatly improved.
Over the years, Huatong Logistics has attached great importance to the development of big data and has built an information database to provide decision-making basis for the management team through data monitoring. The digitalization has given rise to new growth points in the supply chain field. Huatong continuously expands the domestic and international layout of digitalized supply chains, contributing wisdom to lead the formation of an efficient, collaborative, agile, and intelligent global digital supply chain.
Huatong Logistics’ full vehicle business is driven by the needs of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and dealerships, with a focus on end-terminal distribution centers nationwide. It covers major automobile production and sales regions in China. The coverage areas for the full vehicle business include the Northeast, North China, Central China, East China, and Southwest regions.
