from Zero to One -- The Development Course of Tianjin Shengkai Piloting International Trade
Tianjin Shengkai Navigation International Trade Co., Ltd. (Tianjin Shengkai Linghang International Trade Co., Ltd.), established in 2018, is an innovative foreign trade enterprise rooted in Tianjin, an important port city in northern China, focusing on global supply chain integration and cross-border trade services. Since its inception, the company has taken 'professionalism, efficiency, integrity, and win-win' as its core values, and is committed to providing one-stop import and export solutions for small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises at home and abroad.
, the Shengkai pilot team had only 5 members and the office area was less than 50 square meters. In the first year, the business coverage was limited to 3 small and medium-sized machinery parts manufacturers in North China. However, with an in-depth understanding of international trade rules, a keen grasp of RCEP policy dividends, and a self-developed multilingual customs declaration collaboration system, the company quickly opened up market channels in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In 2021, its export volume exceeded 28 million US dollars, an increase of 147 per cent over the same period last year, and was successfully selected into Tianjin's "specialized, special and new" small and medium-sized enterprise cultivation database.
2022, the company will accelerate its digital transformation, launch an intelligent document management platform and a maritime dynamic tracking system to visualize more than 98% of its orders. In the same year, the company set up an overseas service center in Dubai and a localized customs clearance cooperation network in Warsaw, Poland, significantly shortening the delivery cycle. In 2023, Shengkai Pilotage officially obtained ISO 9001:2015 international quality management system certification, and became one of the first private foreign trade enterprises in Tianjin to pass AEO advanced certification, marking that its compliance operation and risk control capabilities have reached the international advanced level.
is particularly worth mentioning that in the process of serving the countries along the' the belt and road initiative', the company has innovatively launched the 'asset-light sea' model-providing brand operation, localized marketing support and compliance access consultation for domestic factories, helping more than 60 small and medium-sized manufacturers to achieve their first independent export. In the first half of 2024, its cross-border e-commerce B2B export business increased by 210 year-on-year, serving customers covering auto parts, intelligent security equipment, environmental protection building materials and other high-growth areas.
Looking to the future, Tianjin Shengkai Pilot is actively laying out the construction of an overseas warehouse network. It plans to complete the landing of three self-operated warehouses in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Monterrey, Mexico, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by 2025, and start the construction of a AI-driven multilingual customer response center. Li Mingyuan, founder of the company, said: "From zero to one is not the end, but the starting point for building sustainable global service capabilities. We do not do simple document porters, but to do China to make the sea 'navigation'-with professional win trust, responsibility to define growth. '
