SF has launched two new cross-border supply chain products, “SF Smartlink Vietnam”, connecting China with Mainland Southeast Asia, and “SF India Sky Prime”, linking China with South Asia.
The company has also unveiled “Ylink”, an innovative end-to-end integrated supply chain solution that combines financial services, logistics and warehousing, and data-driven capabilities.
SF India Sky Prime
With the rapid expansion of high-tech industries such as electronics and pharmaceuticals in India, SF has launched the “SF India Sky Prime” service to provide precise logistics connectivity between China and India. Based on air transportation, this product leverages SF’s owned freighter fleet with over 40 weekly flights and more than 1,900 tons of stable capacity, covering key Indian cities including Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.
The product offers multiple delivery time guarantees and service levels, allowing customers to choose solutions tailored to their cargo needs. It ensures high reliability with door-to-door pickup and delivery, stable capacity, guaranteed transit times, and end-to-end visibility throughout the journey.
Ylink
Enterprises with cross-border supply chains commonly face multiple challenges, including complex cross-border supplier management, risks from exchange rate fluctuations, and issues related to procurement, customs clearance, logistics, and warehousing. To address these pain points, SF has launched the innovative “Ylink” service, offering a solution that combines logistics and trade, and providing enterprises with end-to-end comprehensive services covering trade execution, financial services, logistics ,warehousing and data empowerment.
Leveraging fund management platforms in the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong China, and Singapore, along with multinational business entities and global network resources, “Ylink” can flexibly respond to customers’ personalised needs. It supports multi-currency settlement and hedging services, while also enabling core enterprises expanding overseas to achieve unified supplier management—including unified delivery and fixed payment terms.
The solution not only helps enterprises achieve more cost-efficient procurement but also fosters a more stable and controllable upstream supply chain.
Founded in 1993, SF Group has grown over the past 32 years into Asia’s largest and the world’s fourth-largest integrated logistics service provider (according to the Frost & Sullivan Report, by revenue in 2024), with services spanning more than 200 countries and regions worldwide.
As of the end of June 2025, SF has the highest density of its Asia-Pacific regional air network among industry players, with up to 72 weekly flights on China–India routes and 14-24 weekly flights connecting China with Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and other destinations.
At SF Ezhou Hub, the central node of our hub-and-spoke logistics network, SF currently operates 17 international air routes. In addition, its customs clearance services cover 79 global ports, while its overseas warehousing footprint has surpassed 2.5 million square meters.
Mitchell Mao, CEO of SF International Business Centre, stated that SF aims to systematically build a portfolio of cross-border supply chain management services spanning Asia and beyond, starting in China. By aligning with trends such as product exports and the relocation of production capacity, the company seeks to address critical bottlenecks and challenges across global production, sales, and distribution networks.
This represents more than just an aggregation of services—it is the creation of a global supply chain infrastructure for our clients, characterised by greater certainty, resilience, efficiency, and agility. It is designed to fully meet the essential demands of supply chain management amid the ongoing development of globalised industries.
Leveraging its global logistics network and product portfolio, SF will continue to strive to become the leading comprehensive supply chain service provider in Asia and a strategic partner indispensable in customers’ global expansion journey.
