Industries

Transportation & Logistics

Basic Overview

Zhonglun W&D Law Firm has been deeply engaged in the transportation and logistics sector since its establishment, providing comprehensive legal services for the industry’s evolution towards digitalization, intelligentization, and globalization. Our clients cover the entire industrial chain, ranging from start‑up and growth‑stage small and medium‑sized logistics enterprises, cross‑border e‑commerce logistics service providers, large state‑owned transportation groups, and leading private logistics companies, to internationally renowned foreign logistics firms and multinational shipping corporations. Drawing on our professional expertise, we deliver tailored legal services to well‑known domestic and international transportation and logistics enterprises as well as industry leaders.

Over years of practice, Zhonglun W&D Law Firm has gained an in-depth understanding of the evolving dynamics in the transportation and logistics industry, including supply chain integration, the development of multimodal transport, the advancement of smart logistics, and increasingly stringent compliance requirements. We accurately meet clients’ core legal needs in network planning, transport operations, market expansion, and risk prevention. Aligning with national policies aimed at building a leading country in transportation, developing logistics hubs, and promoting cross-border e-commerce, we have established a legal service system that integrates professionalism and practicality. Through cross-disciplinary collaboration and integrated service models, we deliver comprehensive legal services across key areas including transportation project investment and engineering construction, financing, mergers and acquisitions, domestic and overseas capital market operations, compliance management (covering transport safety, data protection, and customs regulations), intellectual property protection, dispute resolution, and supply chain and logistics-related matters. Our sharp insights into industry regulations and policies, extensive practical experience, and pragmatic, efficient service approach have earned wide recognition from clients, making us a trusted legal partner committed to supporting the steady growth of transportation and logistics enterprises.

Services

  • Legal Services for Security Review and Compliance Filing for Overseas Investment

    We provide compliance services to transportation and logistics enterprises for the security review of their cross-border investment projects. We analyze and interpret the relevant laws, regulations and policy trends of host countries, with a particular focus on investment restrictions in sensitive sectors including ports, logistics hubs and cross-border transportation routes. We also assist enterprises in conducting risk assessments for the security review of investment projects, and develop compliant investment plans and filing strategies. Our team delivers end-to-end services: from preparing security review application documents to liaising with regulatory authorities, offering professional legal opinions on issues raised during the review, so as to mitigate review challenges for clients.

  • Legal Services for Traffic Accident and Work Safety Dispute Resolution

    We provide legal services to transportation and logistics enterprises for cases regarding dispute over traffic accident liability and work safety incident compensation. We assist enterprises in managing post-accident proceedings, participating in liability assessment and settlement negotiations. We represent clients in related civil litigation and arbitration to clarify accident liability allocation and reasonably mitigate or reduce the enterprise’s compensation exposure. In addition, we assist enterprises in enhancing their work safety management systems and delivering work safety compliance training, so as to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents.

  • Legal Services for Customs and Tax Compliance

    We deliver comprehensive customs and tax compliance services for transportation and logistics enterprises. We assist clients in interpreting customs regulations, standardizing import and export declaration procedures, and addressing disputes over commodity classification, origin certification, and customs value. For cross-border logistics projects, we offer compliance guidance on export tax rebates to mitigate associated risks. We also assist clients in responding to customs audits and tax inspections, drafting relevant representations and defense documents, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises.

Service Performance

  1. Providing legal services to a domestic automobile export enterprise for the recognition and enforcement of a CIETAC arbitral award (subject matter: RMB 240 million) by a Saudi court against a Saudi distributor
  2. Providing long-term legal services to the Beijing Office of Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd.
  3. Providing legal services for Autohome Inc. in the data compliance project
  4. Serving as the bankruptcy administrator for Beijing Judian Travel Technology Co., Ltd. in its bankruptcy liquidation
  5. Providing legal services to the China Academy of Transportation Science for its arbitration case regarding dispute over house leasing contract
  6. Providing legal services to a property & casualty insurance company for its case regarding dispute over civil public interest litigation of the grounding of the M/V “XXX” with a city people’s procuratorate and a Guangdong-based shipping company
  7. Providing legal services to Zhejiang Cainiao Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. for its project to establish entities in Dubai and the UAE
  8. Providing legal services to Jiangxi Jilling Lithium Industry Co., Ltd. for its lithium mine acquisition project in Nigeria
  9. Providing legal services for Ztesoft Technology Co., Ltd. in its due diligence for subsidiaries in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda
  10. Providing legal services for CCCS International Shipping Corporation in the Hong Kong arbitration
  11. Providing legal services to AMC Shipping Co., Ltd. for its collision case involving the M/V “AMC NAVIGATOR” and the M/V “WAN HAI 288”
  12. Providing legal services to China Life Investment Management Co., Ltd. for its China Life Investment - Shenzhen International Logistics Debt Investment project