Vietnam interior - Biggest ever trade fair due in Hanoi
The 13th Vietnam International Trade Fair (Vietnam Expo 2003) will be open at the Giang Vo Vietnam Exhibition Fair Centre April 9-13. Products from 27 countries will be displayed in 650 stalls making it the biggest ever trade fair to be held in Vietnam. According to the Ministry of Trade, the estimated value of contracts signed during the fair will be around US$300mil.
Local enterprises will join the fair with over 350 stalls showing the most lucrative products such as garments and textiles, leather shoes, processed food, handicrafts, fisheries, electronic and informatic equipment. The remaining 300 stalls are for foreign enterprises, showing machinery, industrial equipment, agricultural products, fisheries, chemicals and fertilisers. Chinese enterprises have reserved 80 stalls, South Korean enterprises 56, Malaysian enterprises with 34 and Indonesian enterprises taking 10. In addition, the fair will feature enterprises coming from Russia, Pakistan, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland and Hongkong.
During the time the fair, there will be a conference on “Trademark and Industrial Possession in Integration”, a Vietnam Trademark Exhibition on the Internet and a seminar on commerce between local enterprises and Chinese and Indonesian enterprises. Enterprises involved in the fair will enjoy exchanges with businessmen from Britain, France, Japan, South Korea, the US, Thailand and Singapore.
On April 11, the Vietnam Trade Promotion Department (Vietrade) and the Vietnam Trade Fair and Advertisement Company (Vinexad) will present the Vietnam Expo - 2003 Gold Medal to enterprises whose products meet export criteria and for excellent trade promotion stands.
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HCM City lacks premises for exhibition and trade fairs
The exhibition and trade fair centres now available in HCM City prove to be inadequate to serve the increased number of exhibition and trade fairs organised in the city. The Hoang Van Thu International Exhibition and Trade Fair Centre (HIEC), for example, has been operating at full capacity these days to serve a series of exhibitions. Meanwhile, the idle land plot in Phu My Hung new urban area in district 7, which has been reserved for building a trade fair centre, is now being used as a temporary trade fair centre. Pre-engineered steel buildings have been installed there to serve the exhibition and trade fairs, while waiting for the real trade fair centre to be set up.
The Tao Dan Culture Park, where the city’s authorities have prohibited the organisation of trade fairs in, is now still serving trade fairs.
HIEC remains the biggest trade fair centre in HCM City. Vinexad (the Vietnam National Trade Fair and Advertising Company) said that the city is seriously lacking premises for exhibition and trade fairs. Meanwhile, HIEC, the only professional trade fair centre in the city, cannot meet the demand of the organisers in terms of scale. For example, big exhibitions need the centre with the capacity of 400 booths, while HIEC has space for some 320 booths only.
HCM City is witnessing a lot of exhibitions, trade fairs and other sales promotion activities these days, since the high sales season has begun. The 6th international exhibition of machine tools and automated equipment will take place from October 27-30 at the Phu My Hung temporary trade fair centre. There will also be the exhibition on machinery and printing technologies, packaging and food processing to be organised from November 16-19, and the exhibition on textile & garment and footwear technologies on November 24-27.
The Vietnam – APEC 2006 International Trade Exhibition will take place on November 11-19 at Tao Dan Culture Park, where 21 APEC member economies will display their products and show their achievements in 700 booths.
