Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd. and COSCO Logistics (Americas) Inc. have signed a strategic agreement to cooperate in providing logistics services between China and the US.

According to Sino-Global, it will work with COSCO Logistics to provide inland transportation in the US for shipments to and from China, and develop shipping customers as an end-to-end global logistics services.

“We are very excited to expand and reinforce our long-term relationship with COSCO,” said Lei Cao, CEO of Sino-Global. “This agreement combines our logistics expertise and relationships with that of COSCO’s service component in Asia to provide a seamless bridge between China and the United States. We believe that both of our management teams share a similar vision for collaboration between merchants based in China and integrating trucking services in America coupled with the growing trend of e-commerce driven logistics services. Since establishing our West Coast subsidiary, we have leveraged our global relationships to forge ahead with new customer agreements.”

The two companies will also share pricing information for short-haul trucking across selected regions in the US and assess potential locations in the country for warehouse and distribution facilities, according to Sing-Global.