VOV.VN - The Vietnam International Logistics Exhibition (VILOG 2023) is set to take place on May 11 in Hanoi as a means of helping to promote the Vietnamese logistics service industry’s development and help it achieve its potential, whilst simultaneously calling for greater foreign investment in this field.

Container shipping in Vietnam and Cambodia had the fastest port turnaround times in ASEAN in June 2022 with both countries scoring an average of 0.9 days, according to a World Bank (WB) report.

The People’s Committee of Nam Dinh province and Quanta Computer Inc. of Taiwan (China) signed on April 21 an agreement to develop a large-scale computer production project at My Thuan Industrial Park in My Loc district.

VOV.VN - A seminar on logistics, trade, and connectivity was held on April 5 in Singapore under the co-sponsorship of the Agency of Foreign Trade at the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), the trade office at the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCCI), and the Singapore Logistics Association.

Vice chairman of the northern province of Cao Bang Nguyen Trung Thao has suggested companies from the locality and the city of Baise in Guangxi Autonomous Region of China prioritise capital to potential sectors such as logistics, processing-manufacturing, and high technology.

Vietnam will focus on enhancing the competitiveness of the logistics sector and removing bottlenecks in the sector in order to promote trade and investment with India, an official has said.

Increasing foreign investment is expected to come to industrial, logistics properties in Vietnam, pushing the growth of the sector, according to insiders.

VOV.VN - A steep increase in online sales has put pressure on the logistics system, thereby triggering the race to invest in Vietnamese e-commerce logistics, according to details given by insiders.

VOV.VN - The nation has been named among the top 10 places in the 2023 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index compiled by Agility, one of the world’s top freight forwarding and contract logistics providers.

Vietnam’s industrial real estate sector has great potential for developing more projects related to data centres, cold storages and logistics, according to John Campbell, Associate Director, Head of Industrial Services at Savills Vietnam - the largest and most experienced real estate services company in the Southeast Asian nation.