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Environmental and Social Monitoring Report Annual Report January – December 2013 PRC: Tianjin Cold Chain Logistics Facility Development Project Prepared by Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) This report has been submitted to ADB by Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. and is made publicly available in accordance with ADB’s public communications policy (2005). It does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB.

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Environmental and Social Monitoring Report

Annual Report January – December 2013

PRC: Tianjin Cold Chain Logistics Facility

Development Project

Prepared by Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. for the Asian Development Bank (ADB)

This report has been submitted to ADB by Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. and is made publicly available in accordance with ADB’s public communications policy (2005). It does not necessarily reflect the views of ADB.

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Annual Environmental and Social Monitoring Report of

Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Center Project

(From January to December, 2013)

Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Corporation Limited

March, 2014

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Catalogue

1 Project Name and Summary Information ................................................................................. 1

1.1 Location ........................................................................................................................ 1

1.2 Scale, size and capacity ................................................................................................ 3

1.3 Reporting period covered by this monitoring report ....................................................... 4

1.4 Specification of project stage ........................................................................................ 5

1.5 Key developments and any major changes in project location and design .................... 5

2 Relevant Environmental Permits or Compliance Certificates ................................................... 6

2.1 Issued by government agency and Issuance dates ....................................................... 6

2.2 Permit conditions and renewal requirements ................................................................. 7

2.3 Other standards and/or certificates ............................................................................... 7

3 Grievance Redress Mechanism .............................................................................................. 9

3.1 Date established and description of organizational arrangements ................................. 9

3.2 Complaints, grievance, or protests received from Workers and Company employees ..11

4 Labor, Occupational and Community Health and Safety ........................................................12

4.1 Training programs carried out ......................................................................................12

4.2 Incidents recorded........................................................................................................15

4.3 Other health and safety events or outreach activities ...................................................16

4.4 Labor............................................................................................................................17

5 Environmental Management Capacity ....................................................................................19

5.1 Number of staff, qualifications and experience in environmental management .............19

5.2 Environmental and Social Management Capacity ........................................................20

5.3 Training programs carried out ......................................................................................23

5.4 Assessment of environmental management capacity needs ........................................24

6 Stakeholder Consultation .......................................................................................................26

6.1 Details of information disclosure and consultations ......................................................26

6.2 Details of approach on addressing the concerns and issues raised at consultations ....26

7 Compliance with Applicable Environmental and Social Safeguards Requirements ................27

7.1 Air quality .....................................................................................................................28

7.2 Noise............................................................................................................................30

7.3 Water quality ................................................................................................................31

7.4 Solid waste ..................................................................................................................32

8 Other Information and Feedback ............................................................................................34

8.1 Safety production standardization ................................................................................34

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8.2 Accident emergency exercise ......................................................................................34

8.3 Fire drill ........................................................................................................................35

Appendix ...................................................................................................................................36

Appendix 1 .........................................................................................................................37

Appendix 2 .........................................................................................................................39

Appendix 3 .........................................................................................................................40

Appendix 4 .........................................................................................................................41

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1 Project Name and Summary Information

1.1 Location

The ‘Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Center Project’ is located in Tianjin Port Container

Logistics Center, in the intersection between Yuejin Road and Fifth Jiyun Road, adjacent to No.7

Gate of Tianjin Port, five km from Tianjin Port District, three km from Dongjiang Free Trade

Port Zone of Tianjin, and within one km from No.7 Gate of Tianjin Port and Newport Customs

(Figures 1-Figures3).

Figure 1: Project location overview.

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Figure 2: Tianjin geography, transport and landmarks.

Figure 3: Project site location map (courtesy Google Maps).

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1.2 Scale, size and capacity

The project consists of a large-capacity cold storage facility, including merchandise handling,

warehousing, logistics equipment and facility combined with customs inspection service facility

for fruits and vegetables, meat and aquatic products. There are cold storage warehouses and

affiliated facilities (Figure. 4). The cold storage warehouses have various temperature zones,

from deep cold of minus 50 degrees Celsius for aquatic products to below minus 20 for most

meats; and above zero for vegetables, flowers and fruits. The facility covers approximately 8

hectares (ha) including the main function building and cold storage areas, housing customs

inspection facility for large cold storage shipments, refrigerated container yard, logistics office,

fire pool, pump house and other supporting ancillary facilities.

Inspection bridge Administration and management

Fast inspection Channel Cold storage #1

Figure 4: Cold storage warehouses and affiliated facilities.

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The project includes the construction of a 4-storey administrative/office building, a 2-storey

quick inspection channel, three refrigerated warehouses, two refrigeration plant rooms, an

inspection bridge, and related utilities (water supply and drainage, heating, gas and power) and

public greenery areas. Table 1 shows the statistics of facilities on site.

Table 1: Statistics on buildings and facilities.

N

o

Item Floor

Area

(m2)

No. of

floors

Land

Area

(m2)

Notes

1 Administration and management 3,802 4 887 H=20.55 m, Office building

2 Cold storage #1 28,974 3 9,426

H=29.95 m, 30,000 t capacity of low

temperature storage unit, of which

the inspection and quarantine cold

storage room is located on the first

floor.

3 Cold storage #2 14,487 2 7,160 H=19.96 m, 30,000 t capacity of low

temperature storage unit

4 Refrigeration unit and electricity

transformer/distribution (2 units) 1,434 1 1,218 H=7.45 m

5 Cold storage #3(Bonded) 16,787 1 11,763 H=10.00 m, 20,000 t capacity of low

temperature storage unit

6 Inspection bridge 410 1 455 H=8.10 m

7 Dormitory and canteen 1,138 3 380 H=19.90 m

8 Fast inspection Channel 1,099 2 560 H=9.75 m

Total 68,131 31,849

1.3 Reporting period covered by this monitoring report

This monitoring report covered from January 2013 to December 2013.

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1.4 Specification of project stage

This project was constructed from June 2011, and finished in August 2012.

This monitoring report covered the operations stage from January 2013 to December 2013.

1.5 Key developments and any major changes in project location and design

There are no major changes in project location and design.

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2 Relevant Environmental Permits or Compliance Certificates

2.1 Issued by government agency and Issuance dates

Applicable laws and policies of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were listed below, also

with their issuance dates. All the laws and policies listed were in the validity durations.

1) PRC Environmental Protection Law, December 26, 1989.

2) PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution, September 1, 2000.

3) PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Pollution, March 1,

1997.

4) PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, June 1, 2008.

5) PRC Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste,

April 1, 2005.

6) PRC Law on Water and Soil Conservation, June 29, 1991.

7) PRC Law on Promotion of Clean Production, January 1, 2003.

8) PRC Law on Environmental Impact Assessment, October 28, 2002.

9) PRC Law on Energy Conservation, January 1, 1998.

10) Construction Project Environmental Protection and Management Regulation, November

29, 1998.

11) Directory for the Classification of Construction Project Environmental Impact

Assessment, October 1, 2008.

12) Environmental Impact Assessment Public Participation Interim Guideline, (MEP

Announcement No. [2006]28), February 14, 2006.

13) National Directory of Hazardous Wastes, (MEP and NDRC Order No. 1, August 1,

2008).

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14) Production Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, June 25, 2002.

15) Circular of the State Council on further strengthening the work of safety in production,

July 19, 2010.

2.2 Permit conditions and renewal requirements

Approval Letters for the Environmental Impact Table were received on March 4, 2011, from

Municipal Environmental Protection, Appearance, and Management Bureau, Tanggu

Management Committee, Binhai New Area, Tianjin.

On December 30, 2011, because the project name changed from “Binhai TEDA Tianjin Port

Distribution Center Cold Storage Facility Project” to “Tedahang Cold Chain Logistics Center

Project”, another approval letter was received from Municipal Environmental Protection,

Appearance, and Management Bureau, Tanggu Management Committee, Binhai New Area,

Tianjin.

The two permits mentioned above are provided in Appendix 1 and Appendix 2. Both permits are

permanent. And all the requirements in the two permits were executed in the project.

2.3 Other standards and/or certificates

2.3.1 PRC standards

1) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment: General Program (HJ

2.1-2011).

2) Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment: Atmospheric Environment (HJ

2.2-2008).

3) Technical Guidelines for Noise Impact Assessment (HJ 2.4-2009).

4) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment: Surface Water

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Environment (HJ/T 2.3-93).

5) Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment: Ground Water

Environment (HJ 610-2011).

6) Technical Guideline for Environmental Impact Assessment: Ecological Impact (HJ

19-2011) [replace HJ/T 19-1997].

7) Ambient Air Quality Standard (GB 3095-1996).

8) Emission Standard for Odor Pollutants (GB 14554-93).

9) Environmental Quality Standard for Noise (GB 3096-2008).

10) Noise Limits for Construction Site (GB 12523-90).

11) Emission Standard for Industrial Enterprises Noise at Boundary (GB 12348-2008).

12) Environmental Quality Standards for Surface Water (GB 3838-2002).

13) Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard (GB 8978-1996).

14) Identification Standards for Hazardous Wastes: Identification for Toxic Substance

Content (GB 5085-6-2007).

2.3.2ADB requirements

1) ADB’s Environmental Assessment Guidelines of 2003.

2) ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009.

3) ADB’s Social Protection Strategy, 2001.

2.3.3 Relevant International Agreements

1) Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 23

February 2005.

2) Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, 1 January1989.

3) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21 March 1994.

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3 Grievance Redress Mechanism

3.1 Date established and description of organizational arrangements

The company established a complete grievance redress mechanism in November, 2012 and

issued a notification in the company. The organizational arrangements were shown in Figure. 5.

First, all grievances form public or employees will be informed to the general manager and

chairman of the labor union. Second, the meetings will be held by the general manager and

chairman of the labor union, and solutions will be forwarded. Third, the solutions will be notified

to public or employees, if there are still grievances the new solutions will be found through this

process. In this process the general manager and chairman of the labor union are in the charge of

the convening of meetings and the supervision of carrying out of solutions.

Figure 5: The settlement mechanism of grievances

Also, the company founded a grievance handling committee made up of General Manager, Vice

General Manager, manager of the general affairs department, manager of the department that the

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grievant works for and employee relations manager. If the grievance is submitted to the general

affairs department, the department is in charge of investigating, obtaining evidence, presenting

preliminary handling suggestion and participating works including research and response

feedback. The grievant can either make oral grievance or make written grievance. But no matter

what way is adopted, the grievant must fill out Employee Grievance/Response Form for record

(Appendix 3). After recording, it must be confirmed and signed by the grievant.

The person who accepts the grievance shall respond to the grievance within the extent of his/her

competence. If the grievant accepts the response, the grievance can be concluded. If the person

accepting the grievance cannot deal with the grievance, it can be dealt with according to the

grievance handling process. The result shall be formulated into Employee Grievance/Response

Form in triplicate. One copy is kept by the grievant. One copy is stored in the personal file of

the grievant. The last one is kept by the general affairs department on behalf of the company.

After the grievance settlement conclusion is issued, the employee relations manager of the

general affairs department is in charge of tracking and supervising execution of the conclusion.

During this monitoring report period (from January 2013 to December 2013), the grievance

redress mechanism was implemented. In order to preferably optimize the mechanism, third

supplementary terms were formed. First, any employee could send his grievance to the special

mailbox by E-mail, and a full-time staff will settle this grievance immediately. Second, if the

solution could not meet the demands of grievant, the process would be simplified and the

grievant could directly put his further opinion to the general manager and chairman of the labor

union and the new solution will be offered in seven days normally. Third, the modified grievance

redress mechanism was put on the publicity board and the public or employees also could give

his suggestion to the general manager and chairman of the labor. So far there are no objections

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received.

3.2 Complaints, grievance, or protests received from Workers and Company

employees

In order to guarantee interests of personnel of the local community and other relevant workers,

the company organizes Personnel Meeting periodically. The company will prepare fruits and

nuts and make the meeting a tea party. In this way, a relaxing and joyful atmosphere can be

created, and employees can speak out freely. The company can better understand thoughts of the

employees. General Manager, Vice General Manager and chairman of the labor union must be

present at the meeting. Leaders of all departments must take turns to participate the meeting. The

general affairs department is in charge of pre-preparation of the meeting, meeting record,

collecting opinions of the employees and putting improvement measures and processing results

on a board for publicity.

A meeting was held in July 10, 2013 about how to solve the way of employees going home.

Because the company is far from the midtown, a shuttle bus is arranged for staff. And no

counterviews were received about the solution.

In order to arouse the enthusiasm and work efficiency of employees$the meeting was held in

September 15, 2013 about the holiday adjustment mechanism. In line with fair, open and fair

principle employees would make independent choice to decide when and how to have his rest

without the decrease of rest days. Based on this mechanism, employees could apply for the

adjustment of rest day 30 days in advance and the company would decide every applicant’s

vacation date based on all these applications. Before the final decision is made the opinion of

each applicant would be taken and the economic compensation will be given to those who agree

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work in rest day. This mechanism provided employees the chance to adjust their rest scheme and

also got the agreement from employees and managers.

Figure 6: The Personnel Meeting.

4 Labor, Occupational and Community Health and Safety

4.1 Training programs carried out

The company has established some occupational rules and regulations since it started, such as fire

prevention system, fire risk rectification system, fire extinction and emergency evacuation plan

drill system, pressure vessel safety management rules, fire safety education and training system,

and refrigerating station management system. Refer to Figure 7 for relevant safety management

rules.

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Figure 7: Relevant safety management rules.

Lectures and training courses on health and safety are being held periodically in the plant. Till

now, more than 200 “person-time” with various types of work were trained for safety and health,

such as operation of fire extinguishers and gas masks. (Table 2 and Figure 8)

Table 2: The information of training.

Training Content Duration of

Training

Training

methods

Number of

People

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Work environment and risk factor, Condition of safe

production and regulation, Measures for accident and

occupational hazards and safety attentions

Half-day Training

course

25

Various job security obligations, Operating skill,

Occupational injury and casualty accident

Half-day Training

course

21

Safety facilities and equipments, Use and maintain

individual protective articles, Self-rescue and

mutual-rescue, Evacuation and emergency handling

Half-day Training

course

28

Work environment and risk factor, Condition of safe

production and regulation, Measures for accident and

occupational hazards and safety attentions

Half-day Training

course

54

Various job security obligations, Operating skill,

Occupational injury and casualty accident

Half-day Training

course

72

Self-rescue and mutual-rescue, Evacuation and

emergency handling

Half-day Training

course

65

Figure 8: the training course.

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For personnel health, the company offered physical examination for all employees last year.

Furthermore, the plant advocates personnel not only to maintain a healthy body, but also to

maintain good mental status. It means that personnel shall keep healthy both physically and

mentally, face their work, life and future with good physical and mental conditions. The plant

encourages its personnel to take part in sports activities and organizes collective activities at

fixed period. The plant also allocates funds specialized for sports activities. An evening

entertainment and one badminton game were held last year respectively, as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9: The recreational and sports activities.

4.2 Incidents recorded

After the plant entered the operational stage, no production safety accident or personnel injury

occurred.

Meanwhile, the plant has formulated a contingency plan to deal with production accident. The

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plant will make regular check for relevant devices, materials and the alarm system according to

the contingency plan. Once a production accident occurs, the plant can reduce damage and loss

to the minimum by implementing the contingency plan.

4.3 Other health and safety events or outreach activities

In 2013, there were two major safety accidents related to liquid ammonia leak in China. On June

3rd 2013, an explosion and a big fire broke out in a plant of Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Co. which

is caused by liquid ammonia leak. 62 died and 54 injured in the accident; on August 31st, 2013, a

liquid ammonia leak accident occurred in Shanghai Weng Refrigeration Industrial Co., Ltd. 15

died and 25 injured in the accident. By citing the two safety accidents as a warning, the plant

continues to intensify production and operation safety management, set up strong awareness of

unexpected development and takes preventive measures, and propagandizes through workshop.

Also, the company thinks highly of communicating with the local communities to improve

understanding for each other. Tianjin port operating group visited the company on September 24,

2013, and had a conversation about business content, safety measure, common development and

so on (Refer to Figure 11).

Figure 11: The communication meeting.

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4.4 Labor

4.4.1 Labor

According to department requirements, open recruitment was carried out through internet abide

by the labor law of the People's Republic of China. There are no child labor, no forced labor, no

discrimination in hiring.

In order to safeguard the rights and interests of women, the heavy manual job recruitment only

male considering the field operation environment is not suitable for women's long-term work.

And other jobs are not limited to men and women to ensure the employment fairness.

The working time is strictly controlled in the range of labor law, both to ensure operation safety

and ensure the health of employees. According to the operation situation, annual leave was

provided for every staff with reasonable arrangement, which guarantee the legitimate rights and

interests of employees.

The company and the labor union kept close communication, and no staff complaints happened.

4.4.2 Jobs and Employment Opportunities to Local Community

There are totally 120 employees in the company, in which 28 employees were local person while

92 employees were from the other provinces.

The structure of the 120 employees was shown in Table 3.

Table 3: The structure of employees.

Job

Number of employees Monthly Salary Scale

Male Female Total Male(IIII) Female(IIII)

executive staff 8 4 12 49360.04 24680.02

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financial staff 5 1 6 26055.79 5211.16

dispatcher 3 1 4 7054.73 2351.58

device group 10 0 10 56145.83 0.00

tally clerk 16 0 16 48622.60 0.00

forklift driver 38 0 38 147731.81 0.00

checking bridge detector 5 0 5 12593.91 0.00

custom service 4 4 8 14560.30 14560.30

Assistant detector 9 4 13 32544.71 14464.31

others 6 2 8 37301.94 12433.98

Total 104 16 120 431971.66 73701.35

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5 Environmental Management Capacity

5.1 Number of staff, qualifications and experience in environmental management

Refer to Figure 9 for the organization structure and major administrative staff for environment

management. Heads of all business departments and functional departments are in charge of

environmental management of the plant. Such personnel organization structure benefits

formulation and execution of the overall environmental management. All environmental

management personnel possess bachelor’s degree or above and have undergone different levels

of trainings concerning environmental management for many times. They are well aware of

national environmental laws and regulations and requirements of Asian Development Bank on

environmental protection. In actual work, they can do their work well while protecting the

environment, detect problems promptly and figure out solutions as soon as possible.

In Figure 12, Jiang Bo is in charge of environmental management of company and also the

Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) supervisor. The whole environmental work were

mainly completed by Mr. Jiang and his staff, with Jiang Bo responsible for setting the rules,

Zhou Shicang responsible for organizing activities, Hei Muhui responsible for supervising and

inspecting product safety and Guo Jian responsible for safety of moving and storing goods.

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Figure 12: Organization structure and major administrative staff for environment

management.

5.2 Environmental and Social Management Capacity

5.2.1 Environmental issues

The plant always attaches importance to environmental issues. During its operative period, the

company formulated environmental impact mitigation measures, in strict accordance with

national environmental laws and regulations and requirements of Asian Development Bank on

environmental protection. It will also monitor basic index concerning environmental quality

periodically, intensify environmental system management continuously, carry out public

consultation and information disclosure and implement the grievance redress mechanism.

There are also specialized facilities and management systems to deal with air pollution, noise,

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wastewater and garbage discharged by the plant as well as environmental risks generated in the

freezing room. With regard to pollutant discharge, the plant will meet the standards issued by

relevant authorities.

5.2.2 Health and safety

The company promises to observe all national and local laws and regulations concerning

environmental protection and occupational health and safety as well as other requirements, try to

obtain the best health and safety performance in the industry, establish and maintain the

occupation health safety management system, prevent pollution and accidents and improve the

safety performance continuously. The company sticks to a people-oriented concept to create a

safe, healthy and comfortable working environment and reduce occupational hazards. The

company bought some equipment for worker’s health and safety, as shown in Figure 13 and

Table 4.

(1) Protective clothing (2) Breathing machine (3) Eye washing machine (4) Explosion-proof pump

Figure 13: health and safety facilities.

Table 4: The Equipment bought for staff.

Serial Item Type Number Unit price′′′′¥

″″″″

Amount′′′′¥

″″″″

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1 Ammonia Suit RFH 4 7200.00 28800.00

2 Mobile Eye Washing

Machine 65L 3 5100.00 15300.00

3 Handheld Ammonia Meter GAXT 2 6400.00 12800.00

4

Positive Pressure

Breathing Apparatus 6.8L 2 6200.00 12400.00

5

Explosion-proof

Ventilating Fan 1 6500.00 6500.00

6

Explosion-proof

Submerged Pump BQW10 1 5000.00 5000.00

7 Explosion-proof luminaire

4 560.00 2240.00

8 Eye Washing Machine

1 1860.00 1860.00

9 atomizer 403C 1 960.00 960.00

10 protective boots RFH 4 230.00 920.00

11 dilution pump

1 900.00 900.00

12 oxygen bottle 4L 1 600.00 600.00

13 Ammonia gloves RFH 4 120.00 480.00

Total 88,760.00

5.2.3 National environmental laws and regulations

The company always attaches importance to the study of national environmental laws and

regulations, makes the relevant laws and regulations a major part that is explained in the training

courses on safety and health which are held periodically in order to enhance environmental legal

awareness of the staff. The following laws are mainly popularized among staff: “Law of the

People Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution From Environmental Noise”;

“Law of the People Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution”;

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“Emission standards for odor pollutants”; “Integrated wastewater discharge standard”; “Emission

standard for industrial enterprises noise at boundary”.

5.2.4 Applicable ADB’s environmental safeguard requirements

Part of the founding capital of the company was provided by the Asian Development Bank. The

environmental management system of the company must be in line with requirements of the

bank on environment. Therefore, the company will hold trainings on Asian Development Bank’s

requirements on environmental and social management periodically. The training plan hasn’t

drawn up yet, and may complete and carry out in next year.

5.3 Training programs carried out

Environmental management work of the plant mainly focuses on monitoring discharge of waste

gas, noise, wastewater and garbage and environmental risks in the freezing room. The specific

training content is as follows. p waste gas: variety, quantity and collecting and handling

methods of the waste gases discharged in normal and abnormal conditions; q noise: intensity

and types of noises generated by devices in the freezing room, heat pumps and lifts, noise

propagation and attenuation conditions; r waste water: quantity of sanitary sewage and

process waste water, pollutant concentration and handling methods; s garbage: variety and

quantity of household garbage, disqualified products and hazardous wastes generated in

maintenance and repair process, separate collection of the garbage and handling methods; t

environmental risks in the freezing room: confirmation of ammonia environmental risks,

identification of major hazard sources, precautionary measures and emergency plans for the

accidents.

With regard to training, a step-by-step method which gives priority to key points shall be carried

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out and three training have been conducted, The company will help the personnel have an

in-depth understanding of the content and spirit of environmental management by holding

training courses.

5.4 Assessment of environmental management capacity needs

During the trial operation and operation period, the environmental management system has been

executed strictly in the company. No environmental pollution event has occurred. The plant has

obtained remarkable performance in environment protection and health of the personnel.

Meanwhile, the plant has further plans to enhance the environmental management capability.

The details are as follows:

1) Status analysis and assessment. The plant will invite specialized organization to carry out

detection and analysis on environmental conditions of the plant twice every year or do the work

itself. Priority will be given to hazardous materials in the plant (storage, utilization and discharge

of ammonia). Taking operation and management of the plant into consideration, the plant will

make comprehensive assessment on all kinds of environmental issues and manage potential

hazards promptly.

2) Up-to-standard and safeguard measures. At present, discharge of all kinds of pollutants has

met the standards established by relevant authorities at all levels. In the future, the plant will

expand its business in terms of volume, varieties, quantity and frequency of goods delivered into

and out of the plant by a large margin. It will certainly intensify the pollution load. Therefore, the

plant plans to enhance capability to handle all kinds of pollutants, purchase relevant process

equipment, designate independent processing space and make sure that the pollutant discharge is

within acceptable limits.

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3) Increase investment in environmental protection. As the society pays more and more attention

to environmental protection, the plant keeps increasing investment in environmental

management, and the funds will be mainly used to improve the existing pollution control

equipment, environment monitoring equipment and pollutant disposal facilities. At present, the

company is planning to purchase or rent some disposal facilities, such as upgrade the on-line

ammonia monitoring facility, purchase personal masks for dust protection, and maintain the

ventilating fan.

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6 Stakeholder Consultation

6.1 Details of information disclosure and consultations

The Project site is located in an industrial zone of the Tianjin Port. The site and its surrounding

area are zoned for logistics land uses, mainly warehousing and container stacking and sorting

facilities that complement the Port. As the land was considered by the Company to have no

native inhabitants or residents, there were no considerations made for resettlement of existing

residents or special provisions for indigenous peoples.

Although there is no resident or public facility within 1 km of the project site, an extensive

public consultation was still carried out in November, 2012. The Company’s contractor

consulted neighboring companies prior to commissioning stage, and no counterviews were

received. Also, there were no counterviews received in the whole year of 2013.

6.2 Details of approach on addressing the concerns and issues raised at

consultations

In operation period, E-mails were sent to neighboring companies with complaint contact phone

numbers of the Company. No complaint was received in the whole year of 2013.

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7 Compliance with Applicable Environmental and Social Safeguards

Requirements

According to the Environmental and Social Management Plan, the mitigation measures should

be implemented in operation stage was listed in Table 5.

Table 5: Mitigation measures that should be implemented in operation stage.

Type Pollutant Mitigation measures Predicted Effect Status of

Compliance

Air

quality

Ammonia � The equipment should be

maintained and repaired by a

professional company of

mechanical refrigeration

During normal

operations, there is little

ammonia leakage. The

environment will not be

impacted.

Compliant

Noise LAeq � Erect noise barriers/shields

around noisy equipment

� Provide noise protective gears

to workers

Predictions show that

the noise generated by

these equipment would

comply with the

standard at site

boundary

Compliant

Water

quality

COD, BOD5, SS,

NH3-N, TP

� Meet DB 12/356-2008 Class

III standards for domestic

waste water discharged to

municipal sewer for treatment

The wastewater is

discharged in

compliance with the

effluent standard

Compliant

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at the WWTP in the bonded

area extension

Solid

waste

Domestic solid

waste from staff

� Collect the domestic rubbish

in categories for pick up by

the Environmental Sanitation

Bureau

The environment will

not be impacted

Compliant

Waste packs such as

plastics, carton, etc.

� Collect the waste in categories

and sell to external buyers

The environment will

not be impacted

Compliant

Waste oil,

oil-contained yarn,

etc.

� Collect, transport and dispose

these wastes by the external

maintenance and repair

company

The environment will

not be impacted

Compliant

7.1 Air quality

7.1.1 Ammonia machine room

Specialized personnel are appointed to install and maintain relevant ammonia devices and put

them in the ammonia machine room. There are two big ventilation openings in the room. On-line

monitoring on ammonia concentration is carried out in the room. Meanwhile environmental

quality and production safety are well guaranteed. Refer to Figure 14 for the ammonia machine

room and the on-line monitoring facility.

On September 2nd, 2013, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Tanggu, Binhai New

Area of Tianjin made a field test on ammonia in our company (Appendix 4). According to the

test results, the Short Time Exposure Concentration (Cstel) of ammonia were 0.41mg/m3,

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2.94mg/m3, 0.45 mg/m

3respectively, much lower than the 30 mg/m

3 requested by national

standard. And the Time-weighted Average Concentration (Ctwa) of ammonia was 0.27mg/m3,

much lower than the 20 mg/m3 requested by national standard.

7.1.2 Refrigeration storage

Refrigeration storage was important building to the Company, in which goods were stored.

Draught fans was installed to improve the environment of refrigeration storages. Also, automatic

doors were installed to reduce the leak of cool air in refrigeration storages. Refer to Figure 15

for the draught fans and automatic doors of refrigeration storages.

7.1.3 Smoking room

Considering the air quality of inner room and the labor health, smoking is forbidden in the public

place of the whole Company, including office, dormitory, storeroom and other buildings. People

who want to take a cigarette must smoke in the smoking room which is beside the office building.

Refer to Figure 16 for the smoking room.

Figure 14: The ammonia machine room and the on-line monitoring facility.

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Figure 15: The draught fans and automatic doors of refrigeration storages.

F

Figure 16: The smoking room beside the office building.

7.2 Noise

High noise-level devices are put in a specialized workshop to alleviate the impact of noise on the

external environment, including refrigeration units and ground source heat pumps. (Figure 17)

Actual noise testing hasn’t been done in the facility. However, based on experience, the sound

levels of these devices were generally 90~100 dB(A).

If the employee has to enter the workshop for high noise-level devices, he/she must wear

protective earplugs in order to reduce the harm of noise to the personnel.

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(a) Refrigeration units (b)ground source heat pumps

Figure 17: High noise-level devices in workshop.

7.3 Water quality

7.3.1 Domestic waste water

There are men’s rooms and women’s rooms in the office area and the dormitories. The pipe

network will collect the sanitary sewage. After being disposed in the septic tank, it will enter the

sewage pipe network of the industrial park which is centrally managed by Tianjin Port

International Logistics Development Co., Ltd.

7.3.2 Fire pool

A fire pool is built in the plant. If risks and accidents occur in the plant, fire-fighting water will

be collected and kept in the fire pool. The waste water in the pool goes into sewage pipe network

for treatment in order to prevent waste water of fire prevention from flowing here and there and

pollute the surrounding environment. Refer to Figure 18 for site photo of the fire pool.

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Figure 18: The site photo of the fire pool.

7.4 Solid waste

There are trash baskets in every office, toilet and dormitory room to collect household garbage.

Every day, the personnel throw the garbage in the garbage transfer boxes. Tianjin Port

International Logistics Development Co., Ltd. is in charge of clearing the garbage transfer boxes

daily.

The company insists on making reclamation of solid waste and tries to reuse parts of garbage

generated in production and operation of the plant such as waste packaging paper, waste plastics

and scrap metal. Separate collection of garbage (refer to Figure19) is being made, and then the

garbage is being sold to the recyclers. In this way, reclamation of wastes can be realized and

certain economic benefits can be produced.

Presently, at the operational stage, the company has not made any machinery maintenance.

Maintenance of the transport vehicles have been made outside the plant. Therefore, so far, there

is no hazardous waste like used oil produced in the plant.

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Figure 19: Recyclables garbage can.

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8 Other Information and Feedback

In order to prevent risk accidents from occurring and reduce influence on the natural

environment and the social environment after an accident, the company has carried out overall

and meticulous work concerning safety production.

8.1 Safety production standardization

In May 2013, Tedahang Cold-Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. has cleared up and summarized internal

policies, measures and administrative systems related to safety production and applied for

enterprise safety production standardization certification from the Safety Production

Administration, Tanggu Branch in Binhai New Area of Tianjin.

With regard to the certification application process, it has passed appraisal of the review group

and the company has made further improvement based on advice of the review group.

8.2 Accident emergency exercise

Tedahang Cold-Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. has made a liquid ammonia leak emergency exercise

jointly with Fire Prevention Station of the Public Security Bureau of Tianjin Port on 25 June

2013. The exercise centered on the emergency of liquid ammonia pipe leak. The exercise had

rational and compact planning and clear division of labor. Firefighting trucks, respirators, antigas

masks, chemical protective clothing and other professional tools were used. It was well in line

with the practical situation, intensified safety protection awareness of the personnel and tested

their emergency response capability and coordination and joint action capability.

Refer to Figure 20 for site photo of the emergency exercise.

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Figure 20: The site photo of the emergency exercise.

8.3 Fire drill

Tedahang Cold-Chain Logistics Co., Ltd. paid great attention to fire protection, and established

thorough system. First, portable fire extinguishers were put on every floor of building, thus the

soft fire could be put out immediately. Second, firefighting water system covered all the plant.

Thirdly, firemen were invited to the company to teach all the labors fire protection knowledge.

Refer to Figure 21 for the related photos.

(1) Portable fire extinguisher; (2) Fire-pump room; (3) Firefighting training

Figure 21: The photos of fire drill.

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Appendix

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Appendix 1

Approval Letters for the Environmental Impact Table from Municipal Environmental

Protection, Appearance, and Management Bureau, Tanggu Management Committee,

Binhai New Area, Tianjin.

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Appendix 2

Approval letter for name change from Municipal Environmental Protection, Appearance,

and Management Bureau, Tanggu Management Committee, Binhai New Area, Tianjin.

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Appendix 3

Employee Grievance/Response Form

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Appendix 4

Field test report on ammonia by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Tanggu,

Binhai New Area of Tianjin on 2 September 2013.

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