Southeast Asia, India and Australia Feature in Mingtiandi Logistics Forum This Week

After exploring the China, Japan and Korea markets this past week, Mingtiandi’s APAC Logistics Forum continues in the coming days with panel discussions looking at Asia’s emerging markets as well as at opportunities Australia.

With Southeast Asia and India among the primary beneficiaries of diversification of supply chains in the region, the forum will focus on the two regions in a panel on Asia’s emerging logistics markets at 10:00 AM Hong Kong time on Tuesday, 18 June. Featured in that panel will be representatives of BW Industrial, ESR and Mapletree Investments.

The online forum, which is sponsored by Yardi, will continue at 10:00 AM Hong Kong time on Thursday, 20 June with an exploration of the Australian market with speakers from DWS, ESR, Hale Capital Partners and MSCI Real Assets.

The first two sessions in Mingtiandi’s fifth annual APAC Logistics Forum attracted more than 1,200 viewers to the company’s MTD TV video platform and you may register to watch this week’s programme through the link above.

Supply Chains Diversify

With more manufacturers basing part of their production outside of China, warehouse rents have been on the rise in both Southeast Asia and India, despite significant increases in logistics supply in the two regions.

To find out more about the forces driving demand in Asia’s emerging markets, the Tuesday session of Mingtiandi’s logistics forum will welcome Jai Mirpuri, head of Southeast Asia for ESR;

Souvik Mukherjee, head of logistics development for India at Mapletree Investments and Fion Ng, chief operating officer of Vietnam’s BW Industrial.

In Australia, after a challenging 2023 for the logistics market, investors are becoming active again, thanks to an encouraging macro environment and opportunities for higher yields as well as for building platforms in some attractive niche sectors.

To find out more about where the opportunities for profitable investment are in Australia’s logistics market, Mingtiandi’s Thursday programme features a discussion with Simon Sayers, general manager for development for Victoria with ESR Australia; George Anastasiou, head of real estate for Australia at DWS; Nick Bradley, founder and joint managing director for Hale Capital Partners and Benjamin Chow, head of real estate research for Asia at  MSCI Real Assets.

Singapore, Data Centres, Tokyo on the Way

Thursday’s session will conclude Mingtiandi’s APAC Logistics Forum for this year, but there will be a look at Southeast Asian industrial strategies at Mingtiandi’s Singapore Forum, which is coming up in the Lion City on 10 September.

That full day event will also feature sessions on lodging investment, India opportunities, Australia capital markets, and Singapore commercial markets, as well as interviews with executives from Brookfield Asset Management and more.

In October, MTD TV will bring back its annual data centre forum for the fifth time, and then 12 November will bring a closer look at the Japan market through Mingtiandi’s first ever Tokyo conference.