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WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services firms, uniting its engineering, advisory and science-based expertise to shape communities to advance humanity. From local beginnings to a globe-spanning presence today, WSP operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 83,000 professionals, known as Visioneers.
WSP in Asia’s team of 3,000 professionals pioneer solutions and deliver innovative projects across the transportation, infrastructure, environment, building, energy, water, advisory, digital services, project management and advanced facilities sectors. With an established presence in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines, we combine global best practice with regional insight to support clients throughout the project lifecycle.
Our multidisciplinary expertise enables us to partner with governments, developers, investors, and operators on complex developments across the Belt and Road region — from strategic planning and engineering design to environmental solutions, digital transformation, and project delivery. Backed by WSP’s expansive global network, our Asia teams bring together diverse technical capabilities to help shape resilient, connected and sustainable communities.
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Atkins, member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies.
With a history dating back over 40 years, our Asia Pacific business provides our public and private sector clients with comprehensive end-to-end solutions for property, urban development, transport, infrastructure and energy projects across the project life cycle, shaping the future of cities and infrastructure.
Our leading global multidisciplinary expertise and deep local knowledge provided by over 2,800 people in-region, offers the best-in-class consulting, digital design, engineering, delivery and digital asset management solutions, enabling our clients to achieve their desired outcome, and ultimately their own success.
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MVA is a SYSTRA Group company. SYSTRA, the world leader in public transport infrastructure engineering, is an RATP and SNCF subsidiary. MVA is a global transportation specialist and leading market research consultancy specializing in traffic engineering and transport planning and operations. MVA offers a complete range of consultancy services for traffic, transport and pedestrian aspects. Working closely with governments, NGOs, operators, financial institutions, developers, architects, planners, engineers and contractors, in both public and private sectors. MVA is experienced in providing consultancy services from initial concept stages, through planning, feasibility, design and construction with offices along the whole Belt and Road corridors.
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AECOM is the global infrastructure leader, committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities, we solve our clients’ complex challenges in water, environment, energy, transportation and buildings. Our teams partner with public- and private-sector clients to create innovative, sustainable and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle — from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm that had revenue of USD$16.1 billion in fiscal year 2024. Learn more at aecom.com.
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The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is the founding member of the HSBC Group, which serves around 48 million customers through four global businesses: Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Commercial Banking, Global Banking and Markets, and Global Private Banking. The Group serves customers worldwide from over 6,100 offices in 72 countries and territories in Asia, Europe, North and Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. With assets of US$2,572bn at 30 June 2015, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations.
HSBC Commercial Banking
For 150 years we have been where the growth is, connecting customers to opportunities. Today, HSBC Commercial Banking serves businesses ranging from small enterprises to large multinationals in around 55 developed and faster-growing markets around the world. Whether it is working capital, trade finance or payments and cash management solutions, we provide the tools and expertise that businesses need to thrive. With a network covering more than three quarters of global commerce, we make HSBC the world’s leading international trade and business bank.
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Standard Chartered is a leading international banking group, with more than 86,000 employees and an over 150-year history in some of the world’s most dynamic markets. We bank the people and companies driving investment, trade and the creation of wealth across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Today we have a unique on-the-group presence across the Greater China region.
Corporate and Institutional Clients
Our cross-border network helps clients facilitate trade and finance across the fastest growing markets in today’s global economy. We serve clients via the Greater China Platform with our experience in the RMB business and our broad network across China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. We offer a full suite of products in areas such as Financial Markets, Transaction Banking, Research Islamic Banking and Corporate Finance.
Retail Clients
Spanning more than 30 countries our retail banking business serves over 9 million clients through almost 1,200 branches and 5,000 ATMs as well as award-winning digital channels such as Breeze. We offer internet banking in 32 markets, mobile banking in 19 markets and Breeze in 13 markets.
Commercial & Private Bank
Our footprint in the Greater China markets and key geographies across Asia, Africa and the Middle East ensures that we are well placed to support mid-sized firms as they continue to grow and internationalise. As the private bank for business owners our geographic footprint coincides with some of the fastest growing wealth pools in the world.
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Citi, a leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
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With its strategic location at the heart of Asia, state-of-the-art infrastructure, advanced IT application and extensive land, sea and air transport networks, Hong Kong has long been a global logistics and supply chain hub and a gateway for Chinese mainland enterprises to explore Belt and Road opportunities.
An international logistics services provider based in Hong Kong, On Time Express Ltd (OTEL)’s business includes air freight, sea freight, warehousing, delivery, supply management and supply chain consultancy. As the China-Europe Railway Express (CR Express) freight transportation service matures, OTEL’s rail services are also improving, providing a more convenient and environmentally-friendly logistics solution in addition to air and sea freight services to its clients.
Launched in 2011, CR Express offers fast-track cargo rail transportation services between China and Europe. As a key to facilitating Belt and Road connectivity, CR Express has been renowned for its shorter lead time, high freight volume, convenience, safety and efficiency. CR Express now provides services to up to 10 Chinese mainland cities, including Chongqing, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Suzhou, Yiwu, Hefei and Harbin. Its network has also expanded to major economic zones in 11 different countries, including Duisburg and Hamburg in Germany, Cherkessk and Chelyabinsk in Russia, Pardubice in Czech Republic, Warsaw, Łódź and Małaszewicze in Poland, Madrid in Spain, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and Brest in Belarus.
In recent years, the number of returning trains has increased significantly and some of the routes started providing regular services including: Hamburg, Germany to Wuhan; Brest, Belarus to Suzhou; and Madrid, Spain to Yiwu. This presents a new logistics model for the import of European cargo and reduces operational costs for the cargo rail operator. The variety of freight shipped via CR Express has expanded from electronics such as mobile phones and computers to clothing, vehicles, auto parts, food, wine, coffee beans and wood.
Working together with CR Express, OTEL provides a one-stop solution for FCL (full container load), LCL (less container load), customs clearance, trailer transport, warehousing, insurance, overseas door-to-door delivery and container return at different locations. OTEL has long-term storage agreements with warehouses at Chinese ports such as Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Suzhou, Yiwu and Xian. With overseas truck services covering Europe and the Middle Asia, onward truck transhipment is also provided in hub areas including Duisburg and Hamburg in Germany, Warsaw and Małaszewicze in Poland, and Brest in Belarus. International clients of OTEL ship items including clothing, auto parts, industrial products and electronics. As cross-border e-commerce business continues to flourish, OTEL has rolled out a tailored railway shipment solution to fulfil their e-commerce clients’ demand for direct, low quantity and high frequency transactions.
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BillionGroup Technologies Ltd, an energy and environmental consultant in Hong Kong founded in 1991, has established an international presence through providing public and private sectors with a diversity of consultancy and implementation services related to energy conservation and pollution prevention.
The consultancy firm’s clientele spans different parts of the world, including Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland, other parts of Asia, Europe, Africa and Americas. In 2012, it made its first foray into Bangladesh, a country covered by the Belt and Road Initiative, to oversee the operational efficiency of six local factories. Recently, BillionGroup entered into deals with the commercial sectors in the Asian-Pacific region. With the support of governments including that of Bangladesh, the Hong Kong company provides green consultancy services for a variety of development projects.
BillionGroup’s services in the on-going package scheme cover an extensive scope. Leveraging its expertise and the fruits of its research in innovative energy-saving solutions, led by founder and veteran engineer Ir Steve Wong, BillionGroup strives to help the public and private sectors of Belt and Road countries, including Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Timor-Leste, Thailand and Vietnam, to create a greener environment and higher operational efficiency.
The services provided by BillionGroup include the introduction of smart lighting to factories in Dhaka to achieve an estimated 95 percent cut in electricity costs, as well as an integrated airport baggage handling system, of which the cross-belt sorting technology can boost throughput by 300 percent. The system can also reduce energy costs by 33 percent and minimise the number of cases of mishandled luggage. There is also a waste-to-energy conversion scheme designed to convert 20,000 tons of urban waste to generate about 11,800 tons of organic fertilisers.
The projects are expected to help raise the living standard of people in Bangladesh and other Belt and Road countries, where energy infrastructure is insufficient and operational efficiency and environmental conservation are not always the priorities in urbanisation projects. BillionGroup’s leading role in the projects exemplifies how Hong Kong green consultants can make use of its substantial knowledge in ‒ and access to ‒ advanced technologies to help neighbouring countries along the Belt and Road routes move forward in the 21st century.
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Pinsent Masons, an international law firm with a presence in Hong Kong for more than 30 years, represented a mining company and a power company involved in the Thar II project in Pakistan, one of the first projects to be financed under China's Belt and Road Initiative and the first of the planned US$ 46 billion of investments under China-Pakistan economic cooperation agreements.
Completed in 2015, the Thar II project includes the US$ 700-million development of the Thar Block II coal mine, and the US$ 821-million financing of the associated 2 x 330 MW power station.
The project involved a hybrid of Chinese and Islamic financing and two financings (financing for the power station of USD$821 million and financing for the mine of USD$700 million), comprising a combination of Chinese credit from Sinosure, with additional conventional and Islamic Pakistan rupee tranches.
The mining company represented by Pinsent Masons is a joint venture between the government of Sindh, Engro Corporation, various Pakistan and Chinese strategic and financial investors, and China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC); the power company is a joint venture between Engro, CMEC and a financial investor.
Pinsent Masons' lawyers served as the bridge connecting the infrastructure needs of Pakistan with the development capability of China. The lawyers have long been advising on the delivery of complex infrastructure around the world in some of the most challenging environments. The successful delivery of this project has demonstrated the unique expertise of the firm’s Hong Kong partners, who have deep understanding of international infrastructure project financing and experience of advising Chinese investors on their outbound investments. Hong Kong has long been regarded for its tradition of rule of law and advanced legal profession, and the involvement of Pinsent Masons' Hong Kong team enabled the firm to bring such values and qualities to the delivery of the project.