"Along the way" boost China EU logistics industry cooperation

Rabobank of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Embassy recently jointly organized by the theme of "along the way" - agriculture and logistics industry opportunities "forum, explore" along the way "initiative for bilateral economic and trade cooperation between China and the Netherlands to bring new opportunities. According to Rabobank expects, China for perishable commodities consumption in 2025 will compared with 2010 growth of 17%, along the way will be for China and the EU food and agricultural trade brings new opportunities.

Rabobank and Wageningen University in the forum jointly issued the freight and the cold chain: meet the perishable goods growing demand, "the report pointed out that past by sea, Chongqing to European goods generally after more than 40 days to delivery, the new completed Chongqing new European railway can enable the transportation time between Chongqing and Europe relationship for more than 30 days, for perishable food and agricultural products trade between the Netherlands and China opened a new era.

Holland Cooperation Bank of agriculture and food research and consulting, Asia director Zhou Bin said at the forum, China is rapidly developing into a consumer oriented economy, economic growth and urbanization are constantly promoting the demand for higher quality, safety and fresh food, which includes meat, dairy products, fruits and vegetables. Use good along the way, the market is expected to open a new opportunity.

In China, through e-commerce platform for sales of perishable goods is over 50% a year speed growth, which will for the future trade bring more and more extensive opportunities. At present, China's 22% of food imports from Europe, this figure is expected to continue to grow. The report, with along the way to promote trade of perishable foods, also need to address barriers to logistics industry, cultivating the good operation of the cold chain supply chain. Holland Cooperation Bank is expected in 2015 to 2025 years, China needs to invest $85000000000 to improve the cold chain infrastructure.

Holland is the world's second largest exporter of food and flowers, with a "European basket" of the name. But because of the distance between China and China, whether by air or by sea, is not the best choice for agricultural products. Therefore, long-term since, from the Dutch exports to China's agricultural products in the Netherlands exports accounted for less than 1%, which also shows that the Sino Dutch trade in agricultural products there is still much room for growth.

Reporters learned that, more and more enterprises in Holland began to come close to the one way, hoping to connect China EU food industry and trade, so that more high-quality agricultural products into the Chinese market. Nijssen Ron, chief executive officer of the Asian region of Holland Cooperation Bank, said, "the 'along the way' will give us new opportunities in China and Europe. We look forward to working closely with them to grasp the opportunities in these markets ". He also said that once in the speed and cost of the formation of a mature operational model, along the way to bring Chinese consumers and the vast number of European and local food manufacturers closely linked, which contains a huge potential. Chongqing New Europe railway will further boost the development of China's cold chain industry, and promote China's cold chain suppliers and high quality equipment and product docking.