The establishment of COSCO Logistics is believed to be one of historical events launched by COSCO Group, aiming to meet the challenges of China's entry into the WTO and help carry out COSCO's strategic plans of becoming a global logistics service provider from current status of one of the major global carriers. The newly-established COSCO Logistics armed with a set of mature advanced information technology consists of 8 subsidiaries altogether throughout China.

The special package of service platforms such as " On-line Inventory Management Information System", " On-line Road Transportation System", "On-line Space-booking System" and others is supposed to provide with internet-based transaction platform for logistics business operations.

With the support of abundant logistics resources, interactive business platform, together with advanced technology, COSCO is full of confidence that the latest consolidation efforts will enable the group to provide better services for prospected customers both in home and abroad in a variety of fields such as modern logistics service, international shipping agency, international multimode transportation service, freight forwarding, road transportation service, air transportation service, railway service, terminal operation management, storage & distribution operation, LCL service, project development and management and chartering business and so on in the future.

COSCO is one more container shipping line who started offering this type of operations and logistic services as other lines like APL, Hamburg Sud, Maersk, MOL, NYK , P&ONedlloyd between others did before; offering services beyond their core activity as ocean carrier, entering into the door to door service, in a business which until short time ago was exclusivity of forwarders and NVOCC.