Dimerco combines secure bonded warehousing with specialized trucking services to help protect high-value cargo throughout storage and transportation. Key capabilities include:

• Secure transportation: Dimerco provides VIP trucking services for high-value goods moving to and from its Waigaoqiao bonded warehouse, with GPS-equipped vehicles providing real-time visibility during transport.
• Controlled warehouse environment: Dimerco’s Waigaoqiao bonded warehouse provides 24/7 CCTV surveillance, dedicated storage areas, and integrated information management to support greater security and control.
• Integrated bonded logistics: If goods require temporary storage or partial withdrawal, Dimerco can coordinate bonded warehousing, transportation, and customs clearance processes through a single provider.

Dimerco can coordinate bonded transportation, warehousing, and value-added services to help companies consolidate and prepare goods for export more efficiently while maintaining customs control. Services include:

• Bonded transportation: For less than container load (LCL) export shipments moving from a customs-supervised warehouse to the Yangshan supervision warehouse, Dimerco can arrange bonded trucks operating under customs seal to support regulatory compliance.
• Flexible shipment handling: Overseas customers can move goods into Dimerco’s bonded warehouse before export, allowing inventory to be held and released in partial shipments as needed.
• Value-added services: Goods can be relabeled, repacked, consolidated, and prepared for export within the bonded warehouse, reducing the need to coordinate these activities across multiple providers.

Yes. Dimerco combines specialized warehousing and transportation capabilities to support cargo with specific handling, environmental, or regulatory requirements. Capabilities include:

• Dangerous goods: Dimerco’s warehouse is licensed to store dangerous goods, with qualified dangerous-goods vehicles available for onward transportation.
• Temperature-sensitive goods: Temperature- and humidity-controlled warehouse areas can be paired with reefer trucks, including dangerous-goods reefers, to maintain required conditions during storage and transportation.
• Shock-sensitive goods: Air-ride trucks can support sensitive cargo that requires additional protection from shock and vibration during transportation.
• Integrated service: Dimerco can coordinate specialized storage and transportation from the warehouse to the port or another designated location, reducing handoffs between logistics providers.

Dimerco operates two bonded warehouse facilities in Shanghai’s Waigaoqiao area, with different options depending on the origin and destination of the goods:

• Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone (FTZ) bonded warehouse: Overseas goods can be stored under bonded status, allowing applicable duties and taxes to be deferred until the goods are released into the China market.
• Waigaoqiao Integrated Free Trade Zone (IFTZ) bonded warehouse: Domestically produced goods entering the IFTZ for export may qualify for an export VAT refund without first being physically shipped overseas.
• Value-added capabilities: Both facilities support bonded warehousing, distribution, and permitted processing and handling activities to help companies manage goods efficiently while maintaining customs control.

The warehouse entity can act as exporter of record (EOR) in certain circumstances, but it cannot act as importer of record (IOR) for goods released into the domestic China market.

• Exporter of record (EOR): The bonded warehouse entity may act as EOR when goods are shipped from the bonded zone to an overseas destination, including when the beneficial owner is an overseas entity without local registration in China.
• Importer of record (IOR): The warehouse cannot assume IOR responsibility when bonded goods are released for domestic import into China. Filing goods for entry into the bonded warehouse does not constitute an IOR service.

A bonded warehouse can give overseas companies greater flexibility over when and how inventory enters China or moves to other markets. Key advantages include:

• Improved cash flow: Duties and taxes can be deferred while imported goods remain under bonded status and are generally paid when goods are released into the China market.
• Flexible distribution: Inventory can support China-market deliveries, cross-trade, or regional distribution based on changing demand.
• No local entity required for storage and re-export: Overseas companies can store and subsequently re-export goods without establishing a local Chinese legal entity.
• Faster China-market fulfillment: Positioning inventory inside China can shorten lead times when goods are eventually released to domestic customers.
• Reduced inventory risk: Companies can hold inventory under bonded status and determine its final destination as demand becomes clearer.
• Value-added services: Permitted activities under customs supervision can include unpacking, pallet consolidation and deconsolidation, repacking, labeling, and photo documentation.

Dimerco’s Shanghai FTZ warehouse can provide a flexible supply chain base as manufacturers progress from plant setup through trial production and full-scale manufacturing. Benefits at each stage include:

• Before production begins: Imported equipment and materials can be stored under bonded status to defer applicable duties and VAT. Companies can also position imported components close to their future operations and, where permitted, fulfill customer orders from bonded inventory before the factory becomes operational.
• During trial production and ramp-up: Bonded buffer inventory can help protect production against supply disruptions, while duties are deferred until imported goods are released from bonded status. Value-added services such as labeling, kitting, repacking, and quality inspections can further support production requirements.
• During volume production: Bonded inventory can support domestic production, regional distribution, and exports as requirements change. Inventory visibility can also help manufacturers align stock with production needs, reduce excess inventory, and limit the risk of obsolescence.