Bangkok, PTT sends GML to join hands with F.T.K. to promote agricultural products. Expand export market routes through the rail transportation system. Piloting the Thai-China route
Yesterday (22 Nov.) Global Multimodal Logistics Company Limited (GML), a company in the PTT Group, and the Farmers Market Organization (F.T.K.) signed a memorandum of understanding. Cooperate in expanding the export market for agricultural products and consumer products through the rail transport system. Aiming to create a logistics network that connects the international economy. To promote Thai agricultural products to enter the foreign trade market.
Mr. Kraiyasit Inthaphanit revealed that GML operates a business providing integrated logistics services. Connecting the transportation network systems of Thailand and abroad Covers many forms of continuous transport on land, sea and air to upgrade the country's logistics system. and increasing the competitiveness of products exported from Thailand. Currently, GML has collaborated with partners to transport Thai products to countries in the region such as the People's Republic of China. Lao People's Republic, Cambodia. For this cooperation, GML and F.T.K. will bring the potential of both organizations to support the expansion of the export market for Thai agricultural products and consumer products. Through the rail transport system to the target countries, GML will manage the rail transport system to be efficient and cost-competitive, and A.T.K. will be the supplier of quality agricultural products and consumer products. Respond to the needs of overseas markets To increase opportunities for exporting and distributing Thai products to the People's Republic of China. Russian Federation Including countries in Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.
Mr. Panithan Meechaiyo, Director of F.T.K., revealed that from the cooperation between F.T.K. and GML, which operates the logistics business. The goal is to drive the mission of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. Raise the country's economy for the better. It will deliver agricultural products through the Thai-China rail transport system. This is in line with the project under the One Belt One Road (OBOR) strategy or China's inland Silk Road economic belt. that promotes connectivity and international trade routes to various regions around the world, in line with the policies of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives To expand the market for agricultural products abroad, which A.T.K. is an agency with potential in marketing agricultural products. and ready to push such policy Create opportunities to sell to fellow farmers. To promote Thai agricultural products to enter more foreign trade markets. By the railway trade route from Thailand to China. It is the country with the largest agricultural imports in the world. Especially Thai fruits such as durian, bananas, mangosteen, and pomelos, which have an import volume of not less than 20,000 tons/year. A.T.K. will deliver jasmine rice, fresh longan, and dried longan on a pilot basis to the People's Republic. China through rail transport.
Source: Thai News Agency