LYDD Expands Its Cross-Border Overseas Footprint, with the Thailand Trip Deepening Its Southeast Asian Layout
November 25, 2025, 3:50 PM
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From November 20–24, LYDD’s team conducted high-level business negotiations in Thailand with key partners including Sinotrans Thailand, the Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAOT), Thai Eastern Group, and Thailand’s largest agricultural cooperative. This strategic trip marks a crucial step in advancing IBI’s cross-border expansion across Southeast Asia. Aligned with Thailand’s rich agricultural resources like rubber, palm oil, and cassava, LYDD aims to strengthen supply chain integration between China and Thailand under the RCEP framework. Positioned as a regional logistics hub, Thailand could serve as LYDD’s gateway to Malaysia, Indonesia, and beyond. The collaboration envisions a localized “one country, one policy” model, replicating success across Southeast Asia. With Qingdao’s bonded warehouse linking directly to Laem Chabang Port, this growing cross-border channel facilitates not only goods movement but also information, service, and value exchange—fueling IBI’s third growth curve. Key partnerships with RAOT and Y Group will drive sustainable rubber development, while Thai Eastern Group and nationwide cooperatives enhance agricultural connectivity. Sinotrans Thailand adds robust logistics support, reinforcing end-to-end supply chain solutions. This initiative solidifies LYDD’s emerging footprint in Southeast Asia’s dynamic agri-trade landscape.
From November 20th to 24th, the LYDD team traveled to Thailand for a five-day round of cross-border business negotiations and cooperation. The trip included meetings with Sinotrans Thailand, the Thailand Cocoa and Chocolate Trade Association, the Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAOT) and its core partner Y Group, Thai Eastern Group, as well as Thailand’s largest agricultural cooperative. The aim was to further expand the company’s cross-border business footprint in Southeast Asia. This was not only a regular client visit for LYDD, but also a key step in the implementation of IBI’s cross-border strategy in Southeast Asia.
As an important agricultural country in Southeast Asia, Thailand boasts abundant agricultural resources such as rubber and palm oil, which are highly aligned with LYDD’s business direction.
From the perspective of IBI’s cross-border strategy, this trip to Thailand is just the starting point of LYDD’s layout in Southeast Asia.
In the future, LYDD will coordinate cross-border business across Southeast Asia to achieve optimal resource allocation and synergistic business development. With the continuous release of dividends from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the level of trade facilitation for agricultural products between China and Thailand will be further improved, creating a more favorable environment for LYDD’s cross-border business.
As a transportation hub in Southeast Asia, Thailand may become LYDD’s regional center in Southeast Asia in the future, radiating to surrounding markets such as Malaysia and Indonesia. The successful experience of LYDD in Thailand can also be replicated in other Southeast Asian countries to realize a localized cross-border business model of "one country, one policy".
With the conclusion of the Thailand trip, LYDD’s cross-border footprint in Southeast Asia has initially taken shape. Containers departing from the bonded warehouse in Qingdao, Shandong, will sail more frequently to Laem Chabang Port in Thailand. Meanwhile, Thailand’s abundant agricultural resources such as palm oil, cassava, and durian will be more smoothly connected to the Chinese market through LYDD’s cross-border channels. This "cross-border channel" is not only about the flow of goods, but also an "exchange of information, services and value", and it is emerging as one of the most dynamic parts of IBI’s third cross-border growth curve.
The Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAOT) is the official agency responsible for rubber affairs in Thailand, with a vision to become "a globally leading organization for systematic rubber management". The authority is not only tasked with rubber R&D, promoting rubber standards, and stabilizing rubber prices, but also committed to developing the rubber industry and rubber products, and "promoting Thailand to become a hub for environmentally friendly rubber products". Among RAOT’s core partners, "Y Group", as an important one, is expected to play a unique role in the rubber industry chain.
Thai Eastern Group Holdings Co., Ltd. is a major enterprise in Thailand’s rubber and palm oil sectors. Founded in 2005 and located in Chonburi Province, Thailand, the company produces and sells palm oil products and is a key manufacturer and exporter of rubber and palm oil in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) region.
Agricultural cooperatives play a pivotal role in Thailand’s agricultural economy. Data shows that Thailand’s cooperatives are the most representative among those in Southeast Asian countries, with 67% of farmers nationwide participating in various types of cooperatives. These cooperatives adopt a three-level management system: grassroots cooperatives, provincial federations, and the national federation, forming a bridge connecting grassroots farmers with the government.
Sinotrans Thailand has been operating in the Thailand-China Rayong Industrial Zone for many years and has accumulated a solid customer base. Sinotrans Southeast Asia Regional Company is the logistics platform of Sinotrans Overseas Development Co., Ltd. in Southeast Asia, with "a network covering the entire Southeast Asia", and is committed to providing customers with "safe, fast, accurate, economical and convenient" services. The company’s philosophy is "Achieving Customers’ Success and Creating Value", and it strives to become a "first-class logistics bridge" connecting Southeast Asia with China and among Southeast Asian countries. In April 2023, when Chen Weifeng, General Manager of Sinotrans Southeast Asia Region, visited the Thailand-China Rayong Industrial Zone, he stated that Sinotrans hoped to form a long-term strategic cooperative relationship with the zone, and jointly provide customers with "end-to-end full supply chain smart logistics solutions and one-stop services".
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