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COSCO SHIPPING Ports and Nantong Signed Agreement of Intent and MOU for Cooperation in the Tonghai Port Area Container Terminal Project
2017.03.30

On March 27, Capt. Xu Lirong, Chairman of the Board and Party Secretary of COSCO SHIPPING and Wan Min, Director of the Board, President and Deputy Party Secretary led a delegation to Nantong to meet with Lu Zhipeng, Secretary of Municipal Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress of Nantong, and Zhang Zhaojiang, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Nantong. They had an in-depth exchange of views on the cooperation between COSCO SHIPPING and Nantong municipality. 

After the meeting, both parties held a ceremony of signing the Cooperation Agreement and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), both being indicative in nature, between COSCO SHIPPING Ports and Nantong  in the Container Terminal Project of Nantong’s Tonghai Port Area . Shan Xiaoming, member of Municipal Standing Committee and Executive Vice Mayor of Nantong and Zhang Wei, Vice Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of COSCO SHIPPING Ports signed the Cooperation Agreement and the MOU on behalf of each party respectively. The signing was  witnessed by Xu Lirong (Chairman of the Board and Party Secretary of China COSCO Shipping), Wan Min (Director of the Board, President and Deputy Party Secretary), Lu Zhipeng (Secretary of Municipal Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress of Nantong), Zhang Zhaojiang (Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Nantong), Shen Lei (member of Municipal Standing Committee and Secretary-General of Nantong), Yin Jianlu (Vice Chairman of Shanghai CPPCC and Chairman of Nantong Port Group Co., Ltd.), Han Jun (Assistant to the President of COSCO SHIPPING and General Manager of COSCO SHIPPING Logistics Co., Ltd.) and Wang Haimin (General Manager of COSCO SHIPPING Lines Co., Ltd.), etc. 

The meeting and the signing ceremony were also attended by members from the municipal Party committee and the municipal government and from related committees, offices, bureaus, and enterprises of Nantong,  and heads of relevant departments of COSCO SHIPPING.