INTERMODAL China will be held this year at the Shanghai International Convention Centre from August 27-28 and is expected to draw 1,500 logistics companies.

Companies represented at the event will include freight forwarders, ports, shipping companies, rail transportation companies, highway transportation companies and cargo shippers, say organisers.

Forty per cent of the delegates are cargo shippers from various industries including chemicals, electronics, FMCG, auto and construction.

The event will look at regional developments within the Commonwealth Independent States (CIS) and Russia, South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe, North America.