On October 20 -24, 2009, the 6th China - ASEAN Expo was held in Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center. SINOTRANS Guangxi Branch serves as this year's general agent of exhibit transport and customs clearance and has successfully completed the transport, customs clearance, inspection and on-site loading and unloading of all products. This is the sixth time that Guangxi Branch has successfully served as the general agent of China - ASEAN Expo exhibit transport and customs clearance.
The convention business is the emerging one for SINOTRANS Guangxi Branch over the most recent decade and it features high starting point and fast development despite the short development time. Particularly since the China - ASEAN Expo settled in Nanning in 2004, Guangxi Branch has served as the general agent of expo exhibit transport and customs clearance for six consecutive years by means of strong strength and good reputation.
Guangxi Branch has always committed to providing quality and efficient service for expo and constantly seeking to develop in practice. After six years of exploration, Guangxi Branch has gradually developed an "expo exhibit transport service" mode tailored to China - ASEAN Expo.
Firstly, to pioneer "green passage". Set up overseas agents in the ASEAN countries and the other participating countries; the overseas agents will first shoulder the responsibility of uniform transport of the exhibit, and then SINOTRANS branches will directly handle with customs transit when the exhibits arrive in Chinese ports and finally SINOTRANS branches will provide centralized on-site custom clearance agency service after they reach convention centers.
Keep close contact with the secretariat of China - ASEAN Expo, customs, inspection and quarantine departments and set up 24-hour office in convention centers to offer exhibitors from various countries quality and efficient service.
Secondly, to seek the common development with China - ASEAN Expo. Actively maintain and project the sound image of the China - ASEAN Expo and actively cooperate with the China-ASEAN Secretariat and the relevant government departments to bring to success the work of expo preparation. Since the first China - ASEAN Expo, Guangxi Branch has always placed high vale on creating a good service-oriented image and carried out reception etiquette training and cultural education of the ten ASEAN countries to staff directly contacted with the foreign exhibitors to establish the good image of the exposition.
At the phase of on-site exhibit arrangement, they actively cooperate with government departments in the preparatory work, such as the implementation of the prevention and control measures and plan against A H1N1 flu during the expo formulated by government departments this year, and to make every effort to ensure the successful holding of the Expo.
Thirdly, to maximize the utilization of human resources. The on-site exhibit arrangement of China - ASEAN Expo features heavy workload and intense working time, i.e. completing on-site exhibit arrangement in a prescribed short time. Take this year's Expo as example, the open time is October 20 -24, the allowable exhibit arrangement time for 4,000 exhibit booths of domestic and international exhibits is October 13 -18, and many of the domestic exhibitors directly transport the exhibits to the venue one or two days before the opening of the exhibition in order to save the cost of storage and secondary transport.
In response to this situation, Guangxi Branch is making efforts to maximize the use of human resources. SINOTRANS Nanning Storage and Transport Company is responsible for transportation, warehousing and on-site arrangement and loading and unloading of domestic products and they use the existing human resources of the Storage and Transportation Company to ensure the completion of the original company's business while at the same time, making overall plan to arrange staff to participate in the exhibition work according to the needs of the work, so not only secure cost savings, but also ensure high quality and efficient completion of the exhibition.
Guangxi Branch constantly looks for service optimization in practice and serves as the general agent of expo exhibit transportation and customs clearance for six consecutive years and that is the best assessment of the organizers. Six years of successful exhibit logistics experience has laid a solid foundation for the development of Guangxi's exhibition logistics business and the road to the development of logistics exhibition will also be further and further with the help of China - ASEAN Expo.