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the port of Venice tightens the relationships with Vietnam
In the next few months it will be worked in order to increase the economic relations with the support of the Venetian Region
February 23, 2016
Today to Venice a Vietnamese delegation, guided from the ambassador in Italy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Cao Chinh Thien, has met the city council member to Tourism, foreign trade and internationalization of the Venetian Region, Federico Caner, and successively the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Paolo Costa, and the technicians of the agency for a harbour, commercial and environmental encounter of deepening on thematic.
The Venetian harbour authority has remembered that currently between the Italian Northeast and Vietnam three marine lines operated by the Maersk companies are operating, CMA CGM and MSC that favor the commercial interchange with transit Time (times of distance) optimal.
The Harbour Authority has remembered moreover that the interest of Vietnam for the Northeast is but twofold: on one side to favor and to increase the commercial exchanges, the other to acquire expertise. The port of Vietnamese Venice in fact has put on of the partner own best practice. In particular, they are introduced the solution of the harbour system offshore-onshore Venetian (VOOPS), planned in order to connect the outback although the low backdrops of the port, and the decennial experience in the reclamation of sediments and waters.
To conclusion of the encounter the Vietnamese ambassador and the president of the harbour agency have established that, since the transport question derives from the demands for the market and the opportunities of commercial exchange between the two Countries, the engagement of the next months will be that to increase the economic relations with the support of the Region in order to activate every possible exchange between the enterprises of the two territories.
In the 2014 Italian exports towards Vietnam they piled to 732 million euros, with an increase of +8.7% regarding 2013, while the imports have reached the value of 1,9 billion.
The regional society Venetian Promotion has organized from the 5 on 12 March next an economic mission to Ho Chi Minh, in the course of which the Venetian companies participants will probe the Vietnamese market, one of most dynamic of Asia.
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