Borouge, a leading provider of plastics solutions, has awarded a service contract to Agility to build the Borouge compound manufacturing unit and logistics hub in Shanghai, China. Agility will also provide local logistics services for Borouge’s customers in Asia for 10 years from its operational start-up date in 2010.
Agility will undertake the design, development and subsequent operation of the logistics hub to ensure sufficient infrastructure, storage facilities, packaging and distribution services to accommodate Borouge’s products dispatched from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Agility will handle and distribute a total volume of approximately 600 kilotonnes of polyolefins out of the Shanghai logistics hub annually.