Port of Antwerp is setting up a “One Belt One Road” taskforce within the Port Authority as it sets its sights on becoming an integral part of the Chinese development strategy. The strategy was launched at the end of 2013 and focuses on connectivity and cooperation among countries primarily in Eurasia. It has two main components, namely the land-based “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the ocean-going “Maritime Silk Road.” The setting up of the task force comes following the last week’s state visit to China by king Philippe of Belgium. The Chinese president Xi Jinping told his Belgian visitors – who included Marc Van Peel and Eddy Bruyninckx, respectively chairman and CEO of Antwerp Port Authority – that Antwerp has an important role to play in developing a “New Silk Road” linking the Europe and the Middle East with the economic centres of China and other countries in South-East Asia and around the Indian Ocean. During the visit, Belgium also applied to join the new Asian Infrastructure Development Bank, the investment bank behind the strategy. Joining the Asian Infrastructure Development Bank is very significant for the port of Antwerp, which for many years now has been working to expand its market share in China. Last Monday the Port Authority signed a collaboration agreement with the China Development Bank and the Chengtong Holdings Group in which both parties have undertaken to look for a suitable site in the port of Antwerp to set up an EU-Africa-International Trade & Logistics Hub Centre. One possibility currently being examined is the Churchill Industrial Zone. “The Chinese holding company was one of the candidates in the Request for Proposals issued by the Port Authority last year to find a use for the former Opel site in the port area. This agreement fits fairly and squarely into the One Belt One Road strategy,” the port said in an announcement. -Source: worldmaritimenews.com
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Port of Antwerp is setting up a “One Belt One Road” taskforce within the Port Authority as it sets its sights on becoming an integral part of the Chinese development strategy.
The strategy was launched at the end of 2013 and focuses on connectivity and cooperation among countries primarily in Eurasia. It has two main components, namely the land-based “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the ocean-going “Maritime Silk Road.”
The setting up of the task force comes following the last week’s state visit to China by king Philippe of Belgium.
The Chinese president Xi Jinping told his Belgian visitors – who included Marc Van Peel and Eddy Bruyninckx, respectively chairman and CEO of Antwerp Port Authority – that Antwerp has an important role to play in developing a “New Silk Road” linking the Europe and the Middle East with the economic centres of China and other countries in South-East Asia and around the Indian Ocean.
During the visit, Belgium also applied to join the new Asian Infrastructure Development Bank, the investment bank behind the strategy.
Joining the Asian Infrastructure Development Bank is very significant for the port of Antwerp, which for many years now has been working to expand its market share in China.
Last Monday the Port Authority signed a collaboration agreement with the China Development Bank and the Chengtong Holdings Group in which both parties have undertaken to look for a suitable site in the port of Antwerp to set up an EU-Africa-International Trade & Logistics Hub Centre. One possibility currently being examined is the Churchill Industrial Zone.
“The Chinese holding company was one of the candidates in the Request for Proposals issued by the Port Authority last year to find a use for the former Opel site in the port area. This agreement fits fairly and squarely into the One Belt One Road strategy,” the port said in an announcement.
-Source: worldmaritimenews.com