TransViet Cargo named Tiger Airways GSA in Vietnam By Binh Nguyen - The Saigon Times Daily Tiger Airways representative Kwan Yue announces TransViet Cargo as the carrier’s GSA for cargo services in Vietnam at a function in HCMC last week - Photo: Binh Nguyen HCMC - Tiger Airways has selected TransViet Cargo of TransViet Group as its general sales agent (GSA) in Vietnam as a key market for the low-cost carrier. Le Viet Cuong, director of business development at TransViet Group, said being chosen as a GSA for Tiger Airways would help TransViet Cargo optimize services for goods transport by air from Vietnam to Asia and other parts of the world. Cuong told the Daily after an announcement in HCMC last week that TransViet Cargo now acted as the GSA for seven foreign carriers active in Vietnam, including United Airlines, Emirates SkyCargo, China Easter Cargo and Tiger Airways. He named the list of common goods transported by Tiger Airways and other carriers from Vietnam as apparel, … [Read more...] about TransViet Cargo named Tiger Airways GSA in Vietnam
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Ban on asbestos use in Vietnam is urgent
Ban on asbestos use in Vietnam is urgent: workshop The Non-governmental Organisations-Information Centre (NGO-IC) held a workshop in Hanoi on November 27 to call for joining hands with Vietnamese agencies in a bid to draw a roadmap for the ban of white asbestos use in the country. Nguyen Manh Hung from the Vietnam Standards and Consumer Protection Association said asbestos is a generic name given to a group of fibrous silicate materials which are now present in more than 3,000 products. In Vietnam, white asbestos is mostly used in producing asbestos-cement (AC) roofing sheets. Forty-one roofing sheet facilities nationwide are able to turn out over 100 million sq.m. of AC roofing sheets a year, meeting 60 percent of the demand, primarily in rural and mountainous areas due to their low prices and high level of durability, he added. Tran Anh Thanh from the Ministry of Health’s Health Environment Management Agency said asbestos is proved harmful to human health, and people are … [Read more...] about Ban on asbestos use in Vietnam is urgent
Vietnam-US economic cooperation
Hanoi Times - Within the first decade after the 1975 end of the war, Vietnam’s economy faced stagnation, with inflation hitting 700 percent in 1986 and a serious shortage of funds for investment. In that year, the Communist Party in its Sixth Congress approved a broad reform package, "Doi Moi" (or Renovation), that introduced market reforms and dramatically improved Vietnam’s business climate. The country started shifting its central-planning economy based on the Soviet style toward a market-oriented mechanism.The country issued the law on foreign investment in Vietnam in 1987, which reaffirmed the market opening policy that provided a higher legal framework to help the country attract foreign investment.Over the past two decades ending in 2007, Vietnam has attracted $98 billion of foreign investment, of which operational projects totaled $83 billion. Foreign investment projects had yet to pick during the first three years of 1988-1990 since the law came into … [Read more...] about Vietnam-US economic cooperation
Vietnam Airlines to sell 5 old aircraft as part of service upgrade plan
Vietnam Airlines has said it will sell five aircraft as part of a major upgrade plan that aims to turn the national carrier into a four-star airline. The management board of Vietnam Airlines has proposed selling three ATR 72s and two Boeing 777-200ERs in its plan to be submitted in a stakeholder meeting this March 13, Nguoi Lao Dong (Laborer) newspaper reported. While the three ATRs are fully depreciated, the two Boeings made in 2003 will have four more years to go. However, Vietnam Airlines still wants to sell them all as it said they cannot ensure the quality of its services amid the current fierce competition. The board said it is aiming to upgrade its services to the “four-star” level. According to Skytrax, an international rating agency that ranks airlines on a scale from one to five stars, Vietnam Airlines is currently a three-star airline. The Boeing 777-200ERs are currently the best aircraft in Vietnam Airlines’ fleet. They are used for flights to … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines to sell 5 old aircraft as part of service upgrade plan
Vietnam Airlines prepares to enter Skyteam
Vietnam Airlines integration into Skyteam – dominated by Air France-KLM, Delta Air Lines, and Korean Air - will reinforce the alliance’s position in southeast Asia. The official inception of Vietnam’s national carrier will happen this coming June. It has been a long process with Vietnam Airlines mulling out the option of entering an alliance as far as 2000 with negotiations starting seriously around 2006/2007. “We are ready as we feel now ‘equal’ with our future partners in terms of product, network, and mutual benefits. That was not necessarily the case before,” explained Mathieu Ripka, marketing and sales director of Vietnam Airlines in France. Vietnam Airlines is already preparing its entry by boosting its frequencies and services. Skyteam will use both hubs of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to reach most of Asia. “Ho Chi Minh City gives us an excellent positioning to Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, or Australia, while Hanoi acts … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines prepares to enter Skyteam