Ulaanbaatar
‘China-Mongolia International Logistics Zone’ to be set up
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ CEO of 'Mongolian Railway' state-owned shareholding company, an affiliate of the Ministry of Road and Transport Development, B.Tsengel signed an agreement on setting up China-Mongolia International Logistics Zone Co., Ltd with ‘Tianjin Port Economic and Technical Cooperation’ Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the ‘Port of Tianjin’ state-owned enterprise on May 26 in Tianjin, China.
Initially,
in 2009, the Ministry of Road, Transport, Construction and Urban Development of
Mongolia and Tianjin Municipal People's Government established a memorandum on China
leasing 10 hectares of land of Dongjiang Free Trade Port Zone in Tianjin to
Mongolia for 50 years on very soft terms to support Mongolia’s access to sea.
Then in May 2018, the memorandum was re-established as the Mongolian Minister
of Road and Transport Development, Chinese Transport Minister, and Head of the
Tianjin Municipal People's Government agreed that the document has to be enriched,
revised, and aligned with the ‘Steppe Road’ and ’Development Road’ programs of
Mongolia and ‘Belt and Road’ initiative of China.
The sides
also decided to build a transport and logistics center on the aforementioned 10
ha of land and the construction work will begin in July. Thus, the project,
which has been stalled over a decade, is now moving forward and it will play a
key role for Mongolia in having access to sea and further making its way to third
markets through seaports.
