Mr. Yim Kong was born in May 1972, is currently the Vice Chairman of the Board and a Non-executive Director of the Company. He is also a member of the ESG Committee. He was appointed as a member of the Board in November 2021.

He currently serves as the Vice Chairman and a member of the Strategy and Sustainable Development Committee of China Merchants Port Group Co., Ltd., shares of which are listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Having graduated from International Trade at Xiamen University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, he went on to complete an MBA program cocreated by the Maastricht School of Management (Maastricht, the Netherlands) and Shanghai Maritime University. He currently serves as a Functional Constituency — Commercial (Third) member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Chairman of the Panel on Economic Development of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a member of the Election Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a member of the Maritime and Port Development Committee of Hong Kong Maritime and Port Board, a member of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, and a member of the Board of Governors of Hong Kong Chu Hai College. He was a member of the Pilotage Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Marine Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and a member of the Logistics Services Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

Mr. Yim has rich managerial experience in the port and logistics industries. He served as the Chief Representative of the representative office of China Merchants Group Limited in Central Asia and the Baltic Sea and the General Manager of China-Belarus Industrial Park. He also served as the Chief Operational Officer, the General Manager and the Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Port Group Co., Ltd., shares of which are listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Chief Commercial Officer, the Deputy General Manager and the Managing Director of the Company as well as the Commercial Director, the Deputy General Manager, the Standing Deputy General Manager and the General Manager of Shekou Container Terminals Limited, a subsidiary of the Company, and worked for senior logistics management positions in Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) of Singapore and Swire Group of Hong Kong.