A Chinese Olympic logistics expert said here Thursday that the
29th Olympic Games to be held in Beijing will cost approximately
41.7 billion yuan (about US$5 billion) in logistics services.
Zhang Wenjie, head of the research group for logistics planning
of the
Beijing Olympic Games, made the remarks at the second China
Senior Logistics Forum that ended in Beijing Thursday.
Also a professor of prestigious Beijing Jiaotong
University, Zhang said the logistics demand for Beijing Olympic
Games will exceed all previous Olympic Games in history, creating
huge business opportunities for domestic and overseas logistics
companies.
Statistics show that in 2008, more than 200 countries and
regions will participate in the Beijing Olympic Games, and the set
of apparatuses and equipment for athletes, officials and reporters
will top 1.2 million pieces.
During the whole Olympic season in 2008, Zhang acknowledged,
more than 75,000 tons of equipment and facilities will need to be
transported, and over 2,000 transport vehicles of varying types
will be used, which will surely bring business to logistics
equipment manufacturers.
Beijing plans to build 360,000-sq-m athlete apartments in the
Olympic garden. Zhang said the cost for removing and treating the
household garbage collected from these flats will hit 1.08 billion
yuan (about US$130.5 billion).
Zhang went on to say that with more and more transnational
logistics companies, like UPS, DHL, TNT, entering the Chinese
market, China's huge Olympic logistics demand will become the new
target for these logistics giants from overseas.
At the same time, noted Zhang, the big logistics demand also
attracted many leading domestic logistics companies, such as the
COSCO logistics, China Shipping Logistics.
Under the tense competitions, China's local logistics service
providers should learn from the advanced international experience
and cultivate more logistics talents, so as to narrow the gaps
between domestic and overseas logistics companies, Prof. Zhang
said.
(Xinhua News Agency December 12, 2003)