Apaccold signed a cooperation agreement with Qinzhou Beibu Gulf Port Investment to officially take over the operation of Qinzhou bonded project
On August 23, 2023, Appaccold and Qinzhou Beibu Gulf Port Investment Co., Ltd. held a project cooperation signing ceremony in Qinzhou, Guangxi, and Apaccold officially took over the operation of the bonded project in Qinzhou Port Area of Guangxi Free Trade Zone and established Apaccold(Guangxi) International Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. Sabrina Sun, Vice President of Apaccold & General Manager of Apaccold(Guangxi) , and Ling Hao, General Manager of Qinzhou Beibu Gulf Port Investment Co., Ltd, signed the cooperation agreement on behalf of both parties, and Dickson Ho, President and CEO of Apaccold, and Zeng Chaofan, Chairman of Qinzhou Beibu Gulf Port Investment Co., Ltd, witnessed the signing of the agreement. The signing marks the dual-effect linkage between private enterprises and the national team, and the two parties will give full play to their respective advantages, realize resource sharing, and jointly explore and promote the improvement of cold chain standards in the Guangxi Free Trade Zone.
Dickson Ho, President and CEO of Apaccold, said: " Apaccold is a leading enterprise in the field of cold chain facilities in China, and Qinzhou Beibu Gulf Port Investment Co., Ltd attaches great importance to the cooperation with Apaccold and is very confident in the cooperation between the two sides. Apaccold closely follows the "Overall Development Plan of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, and is making every effort to build the cold chain logistics infrastructure of each node city of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor.Apaccold grasps the bridgehead advantage of Guangxi Qinzhou Port connecting China and ASEAN countries, integrates global cold chain food resources such as meat, seafood, fruits and vegetables and agricultural products, and opens up a new two-way cold chain logistics channel covering the western land-sea new channel from Qinzhou to the western land-sea corridor such as Chengdu, Chongqing, Nanning, Guizhou, Xi'an and other node cities and ASEAN countries through multimodal transportation, changes the traditional east-west logistics path in China, establishes a logistics route that runs through the north and south, and realizes the "bringing in" and "going out" of domestic and foreign cold chain products. Create a new pattern of supply chain and cold chain nodes in the Asia-Pacific region.
Zeng Chaofan, chairman of Qinzhou Beibu Gulf Port Investment Co., Ltd., was full of confidence in the cooperation between the two sides, saying that he would share new opportunities in the future, seek new development, and work together to promote cold chain logistics infrastructure services in each node city of the new land-sea corridor in the west, and wished Apaccold(Qinzhou)project a smooth start.
As the first stop of Apaccold to build the cold chain logistics infrastructure of each node city of the new land-sea corridor in the west, the Qinzhou bonded project has unique advantages. Relying on the policy advantages of Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone and Comprehensive Bonded Zone, as well as the location advantages of the international gateway port of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor, the project integrates intelligent refrigerated warehousing, sea-rail combined transport, container yard, and bulk cargo container full-process services. Apaccold (Guangxi) and Qinzhou Beibu Gulf Port Investment Co., Ltd. will join hands with local wholesale markets, logistics centers, storage bases and port logistics nodes to form a cross-border fresh agricultural products cold chain logistics network for ASEAN. Food processing and wholesale agency enterprises. Apaccold will join hands with enterprises in Qinzhou Port Area to fully open up the "trade + cold chain + logistics" cross-border multimodal transport channel, gradually achieve two-way trade with ASEAN countries through rail-sea combined transport through the "sea-air-rail" logistics network, and realize the global exchange of cold fresh products through Qinzhou Port and various cold chain logistics node cities of the western land-sea new channel.
Qinzhou Beibu Gulf Port Investment Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Beibu Gulf Port Group, a wholly-owned enterprise directly owned by the government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which is mainly responsible for the operation and management of port infrastructure projects and port supporting facilities invested and constructed by Beibu Gulf Port Group in Qinzhou Port, Guangxi. It mainly operates the Beibu Gulf International Gateway Port Shipping Service Center, railway line, international commodity direct sales center, international automobile city, standard workshop, unpacking and cold chain warehouse, etc., which are distributed in the Sinopec Industry Area, Dalanping Operation Area, Qinzhou Bonded Port Area Phase II and III Area and Lingang Logistics (Cold Chain) Park Core Location of China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone, providing supporting facilities and services for the construction of Beibu Gulf International Gateway Port and 10 million TEU Port.
Apaccold International Supply Chain is a Hong Kong-based cross-regional investment, operation and management company focusing on multi-temperature supply chain related businesses, including asset management, investment consulting, operation management, strategic M&A and other businesses.Apaccold has returned to China less than three years ago has a total national temperature-controlled storage capacity of more than 1 million cubic meters. The company closely follows the "14th Five-Year Plan" cold chain logistics development plan, lays out the Huaihai Economic Zone radiating 120 million people and radiating 360 million people at each cold chain node along the new land-sea channel in the west, and has 16 high-standard warehouses in Suining County, Xuzhou City, with a temperature-controlled storage capacity of 570,000 cubic meters, making it the largest county cold chain operator in China. Apaccold will accelerate the construction of cold chain logistics infrastructure at each node of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor, and prepare for the establishment of a special development fund for the Western Land-Sea New Corridor.