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SUEZ NWS Limited (“SUEZ NWS”) is a joint venture between SUEZ and NWS Holdings Limited, which compasses the essential business segments of water management, recycling, waste recovery and water treatment infrastructure in the Greater China region. With 8,000 employees and over 70 joint ventures with local partners, SUEZ NWS is a preferred partner in helping authorities and industrial clients develop smart and sustainable water and waste management solutions to optimize their resource management and strengthen their environment and economic performances. Today, the Company has built over 300 water and wastewater plants, with 32+ million people benefiting from its water and waste services in the country. It is recognized as one of the most influential companies and a service benchmark in leading the region’s environmental industry. It operates China’s first PPP water contract in Macau and one of Asia's largest hazardous waste treatment facilities in Shanghai. It is also a leader in Hong Kong’s waste management industry and delivers environmental services to 19 industrial parks in Greater China. Since the end of the 19th century, SUEZ has built expertise aimed at helping people to constantly improve their quality of life by protecting their health and supporting economic growth. With an active presence on five continents, SUEZ and its employees strive to preserve our environment’s natural capital: water, soil, and air. SUEZ provides innovative and resilient solutions in water management, waste recovery, site remediation and air treatment, optimizing municipalities’ and industries’ resource management through “smart” cities and improving their environmental and economic performance. Looking forward, SUEZ will accelerate its strategic plan to embrace changes in our markets and contribute here and now to environmental needs, while driving improvements in the value it creates. It will transform and become the global leader in environmental services.

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Chinese Mainland
Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Water and Waste Management
Southeast Asia
Water and Waste Management
South Asia
Water and Waste Management
Central Asia
Water and Waste Management
Northeast Asia
Water and Waste Management
Central and Eastern Europe
Water and Waste Management
Africa
Water and Waste Management
Australasia
Water and Waste Management
Latin America
Water and Waste Management
Middle East
Water and Waste Management
North America
Water and Waste Management
Western Europe
Water and Waste Management
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SUEZ NWS Limited (“SUEZ NWS”) is a joint venture between SUEZ and NWS Holdings Limited, which compasses the essential business segments of water management, recycling, waste recovery and water treatment infrastructure in the Greater China region. With 8,000 employees and over 70 joint ventures with local partners, SUEZ NWS is a preferred partner in helping authorities and industrial clients develop smart and sustainable water and waste management solutions to optimize their resource management and strengthen their environment and economic performances. Today, the Company has built over 300 water and wastewater plants, with 32+ million people benefiting from its water and waste services in the country. It is recognized as one of the most influential companies and a service benchmark in leading the region’s environmental industry. It operates China’s first PPP water contract in Macau and one of Asia's largest hazardous waste treatment facilities in Shanghai. It is also a leader in Hong Kong’s waste management industry and delivers environmental services to 19 industrial parks in Greater China. Since the end of the 19th century, SUEZ has built expertise aimed at helping people to constantly improve their quality of life by protecting their health and supporting economic growth. With an active presence on five continents, SUEZ and its employees strive to preserve our environment’s natural capital: water, soil, and air. SUEZ provides innovative and resilient solutions in water management, waste recovery, site remediation and air treatment, optimizing municipalities’ and industries’ resource management through “smart” cities and improving their environmental and economic performance. Looking forward, SUEZ will accelerate its strategic plan to embrace changes in our markets and contribute here and now to environmental needs, while driving improvements in the value it creates. It will transform and become the global leader in environmental services.

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3E Accounting Limited. is a Hong Kong-based accounting firm that specialises in providing affordable and quality professional incorporation, accounting, tax, and compliance services, based on Three Es: efficiency, effectiveness and economy – as part of our One-Stop Solution services for our clients. Our office is conveniently located in Central with a local team familiar with Hong Kong legislation. Founded by Chartered Accountant Lawrence Chai, we are recognized by ACCA as an Approved Employer. The ACCA Approved Employer Program only accepts companies that ACCA recognizes for having high standards of staff training and development. With this recognition, you are assured that 3E Accounting meets or exceeds global standards for teaching and developmental support. 3E Accounting Limited. is an independent member of 3E Accounting International Network, with presence in more than 80 countries to support clients in their overseas expansion to Asia, North and South America, Europe, Oceania, and Africa.

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FreightAmigo is a one-stop international logistics digital platform covering sea, air, courier, truck, and rail transportation, connecting business clients with global logistics service providers. We use big data analysis to provide instant freight quotes, cargo information, and cargo status. Offering door-to-door quotes in over 250 countries including the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, with real-time comparison and booking, saving up to 60% on freight costs. Cargo tracking connects over 1,000 shipping companies, providing real-time updates on the latest status. Customers can search door-to-door freight quotes online 24/7, book warehouses, and manage freight, offering customized solutions, warehousing, customs clearance, trade financing, and cargo insurance, providing comprehensive international logistics services to simplify customers' freight and trade processes. Making trade easier.

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Africa
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Australasia
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Western Europe
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Central and Eastern Europe
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
North America
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Latin America
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
South Asia
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Central Asia
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Southeast Asia
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Northeast Asia
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Chinese Mainland
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Middle East
Fin-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
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The Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone looks to the future as work continues on its second phase.

Photo: The Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone: Marking a decade of Asian-African manufacturing partnership.
The Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone: Marking a decade of Asian-African manufacturing partnership.
Photo: The Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone: Marking a decade of Asian-African manufacturing partnership.
The Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone: Marking a decade of Asian-African manufacturing partnership.

Late last month, Nigeria's China-backed Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone (OGFTZ) celebrated 10 years of continuous operation and growth. Set some 50km from Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, it was one of the country's initial tranche of eight special economic zones to secure funding from Beijing and a project that has since been integrated within the wider framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

The zone is now said to generate more than US$234 million in revenue a year, while having attracted in excess of $2 billion in total investment and provided about 6,000 jobs for local workers. Summing up the significance of the project as its 10th anniversary loomed, Adeniyi Adebayo, Nigeria's Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, said: "The Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone demonstrates just what special economic zones can do to help the country realise its true industrial potential."

Set about 55km from Apapa, the largest seaport in western Africa, and some 50km from Murtala Mohammed International Airport, the zone is a joint venture between the Ogun State Government and China African Investment Company (CAIC) – a consortium that comprises the Guangdong Xinguang International Group and China-Africa Investment. Overall, CAIC owns 82% of the joint-venture company, while having 100% management control of the zone and holding a 100-year concession on its manufacturing output.

The start-up phase of the zone extended across 2.24 sq km, an area that was almost fully occupied by 2017, with work then commencing on the agreed second phase. According to Daniel Chi, CAIC's Deputy General Manager, as of June this year, the zone was home to some 30 companies. The major enterprises active within its precincts include Goodwin Ceramic, which has invested more than $100 million; China (Nigeria) Glass (also about $100 million); Hewang Packing & Printing ($50 million); and the Lee Group, a Hong Kong-headquartered footwear manufacturer that has also made a substantial – but undisclosed – investment.

Among the other tenants of the zone are Sun Ceramic, Winghan Furniture, Panda Industry, Green Power Utility, East Steel, Flying Horse Aluminum and the Federated Steel Group. This has seen its manufacturing output extend to include ceramics, packaging, glass, furniture, electricity generation, electrical appliances, steel structures, wigs and hardware. The total planned area of the zone is about 10,000 hectares, with the leasehold falling to CAIC for the next 99 years.

The benefits of operating in the zone are substantial. There is, for instance, no duty charged on imports of raw materials, while customs clearance in and out of the zone is swift and facilitated by a dedicated on-site office. Resident companies are also exempt from Nigerian taxes and can be 100% foreign-owned. Such companies are also free from any obligation to secure import licences, with the on-site management team also offering a one-stop service for the provision of any additional documentation, certificates or licences that may be required. For those investors concerned with regard to the country's problematic labour relations, it has been made illegal for any employee of a zone-based company to go on strike or stage a lockout until any such business has been established on the site for a minimum of 10 years.

The zone also has its own independent gas-fired power plant, making it wholly self-sufficient in terms of meeting its own power needs. With demand set to increase, the plant's management has announced plans to double its existing 5 MW capacity. A less welcome sign of its success has been the need for heightened security. As a consequence, Ogun State's Police Commissioner has seconded 13 full-time officers to the zone, while 150 privately hired security operatives also patrol the site.

Geoff de Freitas, Special Correspondent, Lagos

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FedEx Express is one of the world's largest express transportation company, providing fast and reliable delivery to more than 220 countries and territories. FedEx Express uses a global air-and-ground network to speed delivery of time-sensitive shipments by a definite time and date supported by a money-back guarantee1.

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WT Partnership (WTP) is a leading global construction cost consultant. Founded in Australia in 1949. We have established more than 60 offices in Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa and America and offer clients a seamless and efficient consultancy service in all parts of the world. WTP global footprint can deliver more professional solutions for clients in Belt and Road countries.

WTP expertise covers the building, construction and infrastructure sectors, as well as the management of facilities and the provision of consultancy services. We help our clients achieve their ultimate commercial objectives through optimized cost solutions. WTP has been involved in construction projects in China for more than 40 years, with a wide range of projects including Aviation, Ports & Marine, Power, Land subdivisions, Public private partnership, Mixed-use, Hotel, Office, Residential, Entertainment, etc.

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Africa
Agriculture and Rural Development, Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, Ports, Terminals and Airports, Insurance
Australasia
Telecommunications, Natural Resources (including oil and gas), Agriculture and Rural Development, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Ports, Terminals and Airports, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Rail and Mass Transit, Smart City, Water and Waste Management, Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Technology, Urban Development, High-rise, Mixed-use Development, Transit-oriented Development
Western Europe
Agriculture and Rural Development, Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, Urban Development, High-rise, Mixed-use Development, Transit-oriented Development, Telecommunications, Power and Energy, Water and Waste Management, Rail and Mass Transit, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Smart City, Logistics Parks/Centres
Central and Eastern Europe
Power and Energy, Telecommunications, Natural Resources (including oil and gas), Water and Waste Management, Ports, Terminals and Airports, Rail and Mass Transit, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Logistics Parks/Centres, Agriculture and Rural Development, Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Urban Development, High-rise, Mixed-use Development, Transit-oriented Development
North America
Power and Energy, Telecommunications, Natural Resources (including oil and gas), Water and Waste Management, Ports, Terminals and Airports, Rail and Mass Transit, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Smart City, Logistics Parks/Centres, Bio-tech, Agriculture and Rural Development, Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Clean-tech, Fin-tech, ICT infrastructure, Manufacturing-tech, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, Urban Development, High-rise, Mixed-use Development, Transit-oriented Development
Latin America
Agriculture and Rural Development, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, Urban Development
South Asia
Agriculture and Rural Development, Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, High-rise, Mixed-use Development, Transit-oriented Development, Water and Waste Management, Ports, Terminals and Airports, Rail and Mass Transit, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Smart City, Logistics Parks/Centres
Central Asia
Agriculture and Rural Development, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
Middle East
Power and Energy, Ports, Terminals and Airports, Rail and Mass Transit, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Agriculture and Rural Development, Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, Urban Development, Mixed-use Development
Chinese Mainland
Power and Energy, Telecommunications, Natural Resources (including oil and gas), Ports, Terminals and Airports, Rail and Mass Transit, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Smart City, Water and Waste Management, Agriculture and Rural Development, Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Technology, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, Urban Development, High-rise, Mixed-use Development, Transit-oriented Development
Southeast Asia
Agriculture and Rural Development, Manufacturing (industrial parks, logistics parks, machinery), Technology, Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, Urban Development, High-rise, Mixed-use Development, Transit-oriented Development, Power and Energy, Telecommunications, Natural Resources (including oil and gas), Ports, Terminals and Airports, Rail and Mass Transit, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Smart City, Water and Waste Management
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D&G Technology is a leading one-stop asphalt road infrastructure service provider in China. The Group’s core products include conventional hot-mix asphalt mixing plants and hot-mix asphalt mixing recycling plants. Asphalt mixtures produced by these plants are used in construction and maintenance of all grades of roads and highways. The Group also offers leasing of road construction equipment, provision of equipment modification services, sales of spare parts and components, hot mix supply and technical support and consulting service. Over 600 units of D&G’s asphalt mixing plants have been worked in most provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China as well as over 30 overseas countries and regions, including many “One Belt One Road” countries, such as South East Asia countries, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, etc. The Group is also one of the asphalt mixing plant suppliers to a number of major infrastructure projects, including Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Highway, Hangzhou Bay Bridge and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in China, airport project in Russia and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project. With extensive experience in asphalt road construction and international markets, the Group is also actively participating in other Belt and Road’s road construction projects. In addition, the Group will further develop overseas markets and promote business expansion in the upstream and downstream of the industry chain. In the long run, D&G Technology will become a leading international brand with sustainable development capabilities.

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Middle East
Transport and Logistics Infrastructure, Highways, Bridges and Tunnels, Biometric Technology
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