Vietnam Logistics Forum is an annual event organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in collaboration with relevant agencies from 2013 to present. This is an important event of Vietnam's logistics industry with the goal of promoting the development of logistics services, creating a link between logistics and manufacturing and import-export industries, and also a place for dialogue and update information on important and urgent issues of logistics services in Vietnam and the world.
The annual forum has received the attention and appreciation of leaders of the Government, ministries, sectors, localities and businesses because of its practical significance in supporting businesses to connect and cooperate in business to attract investment to promote the development of the logistics service industry.
Vietnam Logistics Forum 2022 is the 10th forum held. The forum is held in the context of many new features. The implementation of free trade agreements such as CPTPP, EVFTA, RCEP requires businesses to make efforts to improve competitiveness. The Covid-19 epidemic has been controlled, but the post-pandemic socio-economic impacts along with the war in Ukraine are causing recession and inflation in many markets around the world, strongly affecting businesses industry in general and logistics service enterprises in particular. The Ministry of Industry and Trade is working with ministries, branches and localities to focus on removing difficulties, boosting production and export of goods, thereby effectively taking advantage of new FTAs, reducing damage caused by the epidemic and quickly restore growth momentum.
Logistics is a service industry that consumes energy and generates large emissions. Promoting the development of logistics services in parallel with energy saving, switching to environmentally friendly energy sources, using recyclable materials is a big task for the service industry logistics. At the COP-26 Climate Change Summit (November 2021), the Prime Minister pledged that Vietnam would reach net zero emissions by 2050. This is a very important goal, requires responsibility and strong participation of industries, including logistics.
To convey this message, orient and encourage logistics enterprises to comply with the requirements of energy saving, emission reduction, and clean energy use, the Vietnam Logistics Forum 2022 takes the theme of "Green Logistics". This is also the topic of the Vietnam Logistics Report 2022 published at the Forum.
On the afternoon of October 1, at the meeting on the socio-economic situation in the first 9 months of 2024, the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City said that many economic indicators have grown steadily. Notably, export turnover is on a recovery trend and has grown.
In the first eight months of 2024, Vietnam earned nearly VND 4 trillion from tea exports, surpassing the total export revenue of last year.
Australia has made another stride in its agriculture sector by announcing an agreement to export plums to Vietnam in the near future, in addition to the current exports of peaches and nectarines. This project is part of a two-way agricultural market access agreement aimed at providing Australian plums to Vietnam and Vietnamese passion fruit to Australia.
On November 14, 2024, the forum "Da Nang Free Trade Zone – A New Driving Force for the Development of the City’s Logistics Industry" successfully took place, attracting dozens of domestic and international enterprises.
On the morning of November 2, 2024, in response to an invitation from the Board of Directors of FPT University Can Tho, Glotrans HCM joined the 2024 Job Fair and Enterprise Connection Day to network with the university’s leaders and interact with the attending students.
On October 29, according to information from the Vietnam Trade Office in the Philippines (Ministry of Industry and Trade), total bilateral trade between Vietnam and the Philippines reached nearly USD 6.5 billion in the first nine months of 2024, marking an increase of over 20% compared to the same period last year.**
