Kerry Logistics opens new China site

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WAREHOUSING • KERRY LOGISTICS HAS CREATED ANOTHER LINK IN ITS PAN-ASIAN NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTION AND LOGISTICS SERVICES, WITH A NEW SITE IN NORTHERN CHINA

KERRY LOGISTICS NETWORK (KLN) has opened a new logistics centre in the Cangzhou Lingang Economic and Technological Development Zone in Hebei province, China, with the aim of capturing the market potential for chemical logistics. The new facility commenced operations on 8 January.

The Kerry IMS Chemical Cangzhou logistics centre was developed to strengthen KLN’s service capability in the chemical sector and create an important base in northern China, consolidating the company’s combined resources in logistics, export industries, an international-standard operating platform and transport facilities.

Located close to the Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone, the logistics centre has a total area of 30,000 m², comprising Class A and Class B warehouses and office facilities, and has the capacity to handle 400,000 tonnes of Class A and Class B chemicals per year. The logistics centre was designed and built above Chinese national standards and is equipped with smart monitoring and management systems.

At present, the new site is mainly handling industrial raw materials, mostly packaged in intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), drums and pails. The warehouse will store 38 types of dangerous goods, including flammable liquids and solids, oxidisers and corrosive substances.

CONNECTED FOR CHEMICALS “The Kerry IMS Chemical Cangzhou logistics centre is the flagship development in KLN’s expansion of its chemical logistics business, unleashing its strength as a 3PL in the chemical and dangerous goods market,” says managing director William Ma. “With this logistics centre, Kerry Logistics Network is confident that it will greatly enhance its service capabilities in chemical and dangerous goods logistics, enriching user experience and service quality to offer growth initiatives to the industry.”

Edwardo Erni, managing director for China and North Asia at KLN, adds: “There is enormous potential and development prospects in the chemical logistics market. The completion and opening of the Cangzhou logistics centre will allow us to provide professional chemical supply chain consolidation services to our customers in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region. It will give support to our customers’ national and regional framework and consistently optimise supply chain networks to raise the autonomy of the chemical industry supply chain.”

Not only is the new facility well located in terms of the local chemical industry, it is also supported by the Kerry IMS Chemical Logistics network of warehousing, long-haul trucking and distribution services. This allows it to not only fulfil the warehousing and transit needs of local chemical companies, but also to provide services to the Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi and Shandong regions, integrating regional resources and upstream and downstream industries to create a sustainable industry chain.

Indeed, the logistics centre forms a part of the implementation of KLN’s operational strategy of synchronised distribution from the warehouses in eastern, southern, northern and south-west China, so that the logistics and distribution time nationwide is shortened, ensuring the timely delivery of goods to increase the competitiveness of its customers’ products.

KLN and its group companies represent an Asia-based 3PL with a highly diversified business portfolio and operations across 59 countries in the region and elsewhere in the globe, including the Middle East and Latin America. In 2019 the group generated revenues of more than HK$40bn ($5.2bn) and it is the largest international logistics company to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. www.kerrylogistics.com

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