France’s CMA CGM Group and Vietnam’s International Transportation and Trading Joint Stock Company (ITC) launched a joint venture company to provide barge services in Vietnam on April 19.

VOV.VN - Logistics enterprises must boost business co-operation, intensify investment in innovating reasonable operating and transportation methods, as well as strongly develop the nation’s shipping fleet in the future in an effort to reduce logistics costs, according to industry insiders.

Stronger partnership between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) in logistics, along with measures to encourage the transfer of technologies between the two sides, will help improve Vietnam's capacity in the field and contribute to turning Vietnam into an industrialised country.

VOV.VN - The Australian Government has agreed to provide Vietnam with an additional AUD13.8 million for the next phase of the Vietnam Australia Human Resource Development program (Aus4Skills) to help improve vocational training quality.

The Handicraft and Wood Industry Association of HCM City kicked off the Vietnam Furniture Matching Week in HCM City on April 13.

VOV.VN - The Trade Promotion Agency and the Vietnam Logistics Business Association will first put up ‘Vietnam Logistics Service’ pavilion at the Vietnam Expo 2022 that is scheduled to take place from April 13 – 16.

Vietnam and Panama hold substantial cooperation potential, especially in logistics and e-commerce.

Construction of a railway linking Vientiane with the Vung Ang seaport in Vietnam’s central Ha Tinh province is expected to begin in November, the Vientiane Times reported, quoting an investor involved in the project.

VOV.VN - Russian news agency Sputnik has recently quoted experts as saying Vietnam’s potential fields such as digital economy, renewable energy, health care and logistics are expected to attract investment flows from the United States in the coming time.

Foreign investors will continue to pour money into Vietnam’s logistics sector to seize post-pandemic development opportunities, Lao Dong newspaper quoted Piyush Rathorenoi, General Director of the Transworld QBV ICD as saying.