On the early of Dec. 2007, our Shanghai office received a letter of invitation from an oil company, concerning freighting the drilling equipments to port by sea from Saudi Arabia. Located in Sichuan, an inland region of China, the cargoes were asked to ship to a port city.

On receiving the invitation letter, with the principle of saving costs for our clients and seeking the maximum profits, our company designed three shipping plans carefully, that is, "Land and Rail Transport", "Land Carriage"and "Portage" according to the cargoes and the condition of Chinese inland transport market as well as the shipping weather, road condition, etc. Those three plans had different characteristics. Considering saving costs, reducing the risks, etc., we recommend the "Portage" plan for our clients. It is a plan that the cargoes which after delivering from the manufactures are shipped to an inland port by land-carriage, lade them there and then ship them down along with Yangtze River to a port and then ship them ocean.

On receiving the plan, compared the risks of Land Carriage and the uncertained time of the rail transport as well as the costs, etc., our client selected "Portage" finally.

Careful plans and preparations in all aspects were made before we transport those cargoes. For the ocean shipping of all the cargoes is handled by us as well, in order to arrange it better, we divided the whole process into different sections. Not only Gantt chart was made but also task and dates are arranged respectively before the transportation.

In the stage of "Land Carriage", making good use of local Logistics information and vehicle resources, we finished the shipment on time in safety.

In the inland port, the whole procedures are well-organized because lots of preparations were made for it. A large number of cargoes were loaded into the ship directly which make the logistics tache more smoothly and reached to the management requirement of supplying chain. After the inland ship reached to a port, meanwhile, the ordered trans-ocean vessel reached to a port after loading other cargoes from Tianjin Xinggang Port. Finally, lading was finished successfully.

This "Portage" project is one of the successful chain type logistics operations. While saving costs for clients we gained profits as well. It fully reflected the concept that logistics is the third profit resources. Long time, revolving many places, various tache and numerous procedures are characteristics of this project. We adopted the thought of supplying-chain management. At last, this project is finished successfully.