2022 Shandong Port Trading Conference was held by Shandong Port Group on 28th July. The conference gathered distinguished guests from different fields to jointly discuss the development of international trade cooperation. The concept of the conference concentrates on ‘taking a leading position through the port, embarking on a new journey through the trade’.
Experts across the industries brought informative speeches through multi-perspectives to the conference. They analysed the jointly significant impact on Profound Changes Unseen in Centuries and COVID-19. The conference was to provide the bellwether regarding the security of the food supply chain and a smooth dual circulation between domestic and overseas.
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest free trade agreement to date, entered into force on 1 January 2022 for ten countries. It has opened multilateralism and free trade zone, continued to deepen the development pattern of the industrial and value chains in the region, and strongly promoted the development of trade in goods and services.
In the past three years since Shandong Port Group was established, it has taken the port as a leading position, continuously amplified the role of the hub and platform function, provided the complete E2E process of ‘port + logistics + finance + trade + shipping’ for both sellers and consumers, and attracted more flows in terms of consignment, capital flow, information and data, logistics and storage coordination, port and shipping advantageous resources created through the Siphon effect. Shandong Port Group provides strong support to maintain the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain, and promotes high-quality economic development.
Relying on the advantages of the Shandong port platform and specialisation, Shandong Port Group diversifies their business with multi-cargo type and various industries involved to provide one-stop integrated trade services, which accelerates the transformation and development from means of production trade to both means of production and living trade simultaneously, and increasing development in the cold chain market to improve supply quality and promote consumption upgrade. Shandong Port Group is committed to building a larger cooperation and exchange platform for more upstream and downstream resource providers, producers, traders and financial agents to create more cooperation opportunities and industry value. Shandong Port Group is also trying to build a reputation as the leading international financial trade port for Shandong port.
Mastlink Australia, headquartered in Melbourne, specialising in exporting red meat products, processing lamb and mutton products and other international trade of meat products. Its business development in Shandong has been supported by the Victoria State Government. Recently, Mastlink Australia has been deeply engaged in the frozen meat export and cold chain logistics business. The sustainable cooperation with Shandong Port Group well meets in terms of orientation, fields and goals of future sustainable development. At this trade conference, Mastlink Australia signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shandong Port to achieve close cooperation, which will serve to provide the utmost quality of Australian red meat to the Chinese market. Mastlink Australia will also provide safe and standardised meat processing technologies, and build an international standard cold chain food processing industry.
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