Momentan, the Great Silk Road Cold Chain Logistics Digital Industrial Park project, located within the Sanyi Agricultural Products Logistics Park, is progressing in an orderly manner. One of the main construction projects, a 40,000-square-meter cold storage facility, is undergoing the installation and inspection of fire protection facilities. “Once the project is fully completed, Anqing residents will enjoy a greater variety of high-quality and affordable fruits, Gemüse, Fleisch, and seafood from surrounding countries and regions across China,” said Fang Longzhong, General Manager of Great Silk Road Logistics (Anhui) Co., Ltd.
On the morning of September 29, passing north through the vegetable wholesale market in Sanyi Agricultural Products Logistics Park, several new buildings come into view, with trucks bustling and merchants busy. “This is the newly completed 10,000-square-meter trading center of the Great Silk Road Cold Chain Logistics Digital Industrial Park project, which is now in use, with fruit and vegetable vendors gradually moving in. Below ground is a 40,000-square-meter cold storage facility, currently the largest in Anqing, using the most advanced domestic storage and preservation technology and capable of storing 5,000 tons of goods. The second phase of the project will include the construction of a 100,000-square-meter cold storage facility, capable of storing 15,000 tons of goods,” said Fang Longzhong.
The “Sanyi Vegetable Wholesale Market” is a well-known “vegetable basket” for the people of Anqing, with an annual vegetable transaction volume of 200,000 tons, supplying more than 90% of the daily needs of Anqing residents. Jedoch, as times change, the disadvantages of traditional agricultural and sideline product wholesale markets have become increasingly apparent, making transformation and upgrading an urgent necessity.
To reduce logistics costs, diversify product types, and upgrade market quality, Great Silk Road Logistics (Anhui) Co., Ltd. is leading the implementation of the Cold Chain Logistics Digital Industrial Park Multimodal Transport Demonstration Project. The project aims to comprehensively transform the Sanyi Agricultural Products Logistics Park, focusing on the Great Silk Road Cold Chain Logistics Digital Industrial Park as the core and utilizing “road-to-rail” multimodal transport. This will establish a major logistics transit hub for agricultural and sideline products for Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei provinces, and the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Once the cold storage and other hardware facilities are completed, the project will focus on developing four “rail + road” multimodal transport routes to provide Anqing residents with more high-quality and affordable vegetables, fruits, Meeresfrüchte, and beef and lamb products. These routes include the “Imported Fruits” route from Southeast Asia (Laos) – (China-Laos Railway) – (Chengdu Railway) – Anqing North Station – (short-distance road) – Cold Chain Logistics Digital Industrial Park.
The “Cold Chain Logistics” route runs from Tianjin Port – (railway) – Anqing North Station – (short-distance road) – Cold Chain Logistics Digital Industrial Park, mainly transporting frozen goods, seafood products, fresh produce, and vegetables. The “Guangdong Direct” route runs from Guangzhou – (railway) – Anqing North Station – (short-distance road) – Cold Chain Logistics Digital Industrial Park, mainly transporting frozen goods and seafood products. The “Inner Mongolia Agricultural and Livestock Products” route runs from Inner Mongolia – (railway) – Anqing North Station – (short-distance road) – Cold Chain Logistics Digital Industrial Park, mainly transporting meat and dairy products.
Gleichzeitig, the project will comprehensively develop a “warehouse-distribution integrated system + multimodal transport system” to accelerate the establishment of a smooth, efficient, safe, green, smart, convenient, and well-supported modern cold chain logistics system. This will create a network for agricultural product wholesale markets and destination agricultural product cold chain logistics. The “warehouse-distribution integrated system” will provide process node control and coordination for goods warehousing, warehouse supervision, outbound dispatch, outbound loading, transport supervision, warehouse settlement, and transport settlement, promoting improved transportation efficiency and reduced costs. The “multimodal transport system” will offer comprehensive information services for multimodal transport logistics service providers, making agricultural product circulation more efficient and benefiting both farmers and citizens.
