On the afternoon of November 11, Le Ngoc Chau, Chairman of the Hai Phong City People’s Committee, received and held a working session with Aukje de Vries, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands, and a business delegation on promoting investment and cooperation in the development of seaports and logistics in Hai Phong.
Le Ngoc Chau, Chairman of the Hai Phong City People’s Committee, chairs the reception and working session with the delegation from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
At the session, Chairman Le Ngoc Chau expressed his pleasure at welcoming Minister Aukje de Vries, Ambassador Kees van Baar and the Dutch delegation to Hai Phong.
The Netherlands is currently one of Vietnam’s and Hai Phong’s important European partners. To date, 16 Dutch foreign direct investment projects have been implemented in Hai Phong, with total capital of USD 361 million, ranking 12th in the number of projects and 11th in foreign-investment capital in Hai Phong.
Le Ngoc Chau, Chairman of the Hai Phong City People’s Committee, speaks.
The Chairman informed the delegation about Hai Phong’s outstanding socio-economic development results in recent years, as well as the city’s potential and advantages in many fields, especially urban development planning, seaport infrastructure, and the city’s special mechanisms and incentive policies to attract investment.
Le Ngoc Chau expressed his belief that Minister Aukje de Vries’s working visit and the Dutch business delegation would help promote cooperation and investment, further deepen the positive relationship, and continue serving as an important bridge and information channel to connect with and attract Dutch business investment to Hai Phong.
Aukje de Vries, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands, with the delegation.
Under the master plan for development of Vietnam’s seaport system for 2021–2030, with a vision to 2050, Hai Phong’s seaports belong to Group 1 and are one of the country’s two special seaports.
Hai Phong’s two main gateway port clusters, Lach Huyen associated with the Dinh Vu–Cat Hai Economic Zone and Nam Do Son associated with the Southern Coastal Economic Zone, are oriented to become international transshipment ports capable of receiving large vessels and applying digital technology, while developing warehousing and logistics, free-trade and international cargo-transshipment services.
Thanking the city leaders for their thoughtful reception, Minister Aukje de Vries expressed her impression of Hai Phong’s socio-economic development in recent years, especially in seaports. She expressed confidence in broad cooperation between Vietnamese enterprises in general, and Hai Phong enterprises in particular, and Dutch enterprises in maritime, seaport, aviation and logistics fields.
At the session, representatives of several enterprises from both sides also exchanged views and proposed cooperation solutions and opportunities.
Source: Investment Newspaper