Round table of economic cooperation on Vietnam-Germany logistics at the headquarters of the Düsseldorf Trade and Investment Promotion Agency - NRW. Photo : VNA
According to the VNA reporter in Germany, the delegation's trade promotion and business cooperation activities were implemented in major German cities and states such as Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig.In Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), which has the largest population in Germany with about 18 million people, the Round Table of Economic Cooperation on Vietnam-Germany logistics took place successfully at the headquarters of Düsseldorf's Investment Trade Promotion Agency - NRW. Global Business.Attending the Round Table, the Vietnamese side was Mr. Tran Thanh Hai, Deputy Director General of Import and Export Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade; Mr. Bui Vuong Anh, Commercial Counsellor, Vietnam Trade Office in Germany; Mr. Ngo Anh Tuan, General Secretary of Vietnam Association of Maritime Agents, Brokers and Services and representatives of 26 Vietnamese logistics service enterprises. On the German side, there were Mr. Karl-Uwe Bütof, High Commissioner for Economic Relations for Southeast Asia, Ministry of Economy of Dussendorf; Mr. Björn Schubert, Director of the Department of Innovation, Ministry of Economy of Dussendorf; Mr. Felix Neugart, Chief Executive Officer of NRW. Global Business; Ms. Astrid Becker, Asia Director of NRW. Global Business and representatives of a number of German businesses in the logistics sector.
The Delegation of the Ministry of Commerce and representatives of logistics enterprises worked with the Embassy of Vietnam in Germany. Photo: VNA
In addition, the delegation also had survey sessions, visited the railway logistics center in Duisburg, visited the cargo operation center at Cologne - Bonn airport, worked with MBS Logistics GmbH in Cologne, exchanged on cooperation in the field of rail and air transport.In Hamburg, the delegation had a meeting with city leaders, representatives of the Asia-Pacific Business Association (OAV) and representatives of the Port of Hamburg. The delegation also had a tour of Hamburg port to learn about how to operate logistics seaport services. Hamburg is Germany's largest port, known as the "gateway to the world." It is also the second busiest, second busiest port in Europe in terms of container throughput and the 11th largest worldwide.
The Delegation of the Ministry of Commerce of Vietnam visited and surveyed at Amazon Leipzi. Photo: VNA
At the end of the program, the Deal held surveys at Amazon Leipzig, the aviation logistics center at Halle airport and the Leipzig Exhibition and Convention Center to learn about Amazon's logistics system as well as how German air transport operates.It can be said that the promotion program in the field of logistics of the Vietnamese delegation has taken place very successfully in major cities of Germany. The delegation learned and learned a full range of transport modes from rail, road, sea, and air and opened up many opportunities for cooperation with the German market in particular and the EU in general, taking advantage of the incentives that the EVFTA Agreement brings.