Integrated cold chain logistics Qinzhou port base project was signed - Group News

The Western Land-Sea New Corridor integrated cold chain logistics Qinzhou Port base project was signed

On December 13, ApacCold and Qinzhou Beibu Bay Port Investment Co., Ltd. and Sichuan Port Investment New Channel Logistics Industry Investment Group Co., Ltd. held a signing ceremony in Qinzhou, Guangxi Province, where the three parties jointly built the qinzhou port base project of integrated cold chain logistics of the new western land and sea corridor, and established the Guangxi Free Trade Zone Chuangui New Channel Development Co., Ltd. The first shareholders' meeting, board of directors and supervisory board of the joint venture company were also successfully held after the signing ceremony.

At the meeting, Mr.Dickson Ho, president and CEO of the company, said that the signing of the project is of great significance to help the western region accelerate the construction of a "double cycle" new development and improve the construction of logistics hubs along the national route, etc. For the Apaccold layout of domestic port logistics nodes, the project is in line with the strategic layout of ApacCold Company in China, and has an important role in promoting the development of the supply chain in the Asia-Pacific region. The policy of strategic layout of the national cold chain logistics backbone channel network.

Shi Miao, deputy general manager of the New Channel Logistics Company, said that the signing of the project is an important measure to promote the sichuan port investment group to actively implement the southward development of Sichuan, which is of great significance to accelerating the construction of the western land and sea; Ren Qiying, executive deputy general manager of the north port construction, said that the project signing is the specific embodiment of the north port construction actively serving as the main force in the construction of the new land and sea corridor in the west, the main force in the construction of the beibu bay international gateway port and the practitioners of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and the project will be a concrete embodiment of the intermodal terminal, transportation and Sichuan-related logistics nodes. Further improving the port's container transportation and dredging system will play a positive role in accelerating the construction of the Beibu Gulf ten million TEUs port.

The Qinzhou Port Base Project of Integrated Cold Chain Logistics of The Western Land-Sea New Corridor is the bridgehead of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor, bordering the Western Land-Sea New Corridor in the north and the ASEAN Economic and Trade Zone in the south, covering an area of 143 acres, with a construction area of 60,520 square meters and a total investment of about 400 million yuan, and plans to build multi-temperature cold storage, dry warehouses, processing centers and comprehensive office buildings. The project is located next to the Railway Freight Distribution Center of Qinzhou Port in Guangxi, which will build a modern logistics park integrating multimodal transportation, customs inspection and quarantine, and sorting and processing. In december 2021, the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year" Cold Chain Logistics Development Plan, which clearly put forward the strategic layout of the "four horizontal and four vertical" national cold chain logistics backbone channel network, and focused on the sea-rail intermodal transport class of the new western land-sea corridor, which will have all-round support and high-quality development for the western land-sea new corridor sea-rail intermodal transport, international railway intermodal transport, cross-border road shuttle international cold chain logistics and other businesses after completion.

Dr. Jonas Chang, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, Li Li, Manager of the Investment and Development Department of Beigang Construction, the leadership team of Qinbei Investment, and the relevant departments of Sichuan Hong Kong Investment participated in the signing ceremony.

Qinzhou Beibu Gulf Port Investment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Qinbeitou") was established in July 2012, in order to meet the overall listing needs of the main port business of the Group Company, it undertook all the non-port core assets of Qinzhou Port Area. The main business is responsible for the management of the port infrastructure projects and port supporting facilities operated and managed by the group company in the port area of Qinzhou, and is the main operator of the development and construction of the Dalanping area under the strategic cooperation agreement signed between Qinzhou City and the group company.

Sichuan Port Investment New Channel Logistics Industry Investment Group Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sichuan Port and Shipping Investment Group, a state-owned enterprise directly under Sichuan Province, holding 2 ports above designated size such as Nanchong Port and Guang'an Port, and 10 affiliated enterprises, covering port logistics, international and domestic trade, warehousing services, cold chain logistics, supply chain management, logistics finance and logistics information technology services.

ApacCold (Shenzhen) International Supply Chain Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Hong Kong, China. It mainly focuses on multi-stratospheric supply chain related businesses, including asset management, investment consulting, operation management, strategic mergers and acquisitions and other service businesses. Using the most advanced cold chain technology, ApacCold focuses on providing customers with a full range of temperature controlled warehousing and cold chain transportation network services, and its business covers the entire Asia-Pacific region.