Belgian delegation aims to strengthen trade links

Representatives from Belgian businesses and local chambers of commerce are to speak at ‘Doing business in Belgium’, a seminar on October 10 in association with World Trade Centre Hull & Humber and Hull City Council.

Miel Vemorgen, the director of sales and logistics at the Port of Zeebrugge; Michel Vanhoonacker, chairman of the Belgian Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, and Ben De Smit, economic and commercial counsellor with the Flanders Investment & Trade -Embassy of Belgium, will speak at the morning event. They will be joined by Phil Hall, enterprise officer for Hull City Council.

Peter Brown, the chief executive of Neill & Brown Global Logistics and a world trade centre director, said: “These are senior international business figures, who will be in one place, and they will be here to provide great contacts and information on Belgium as a gateway to Europe, and the business and logistics opportunities the country offers.

“With the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge, Ghent and Ostend, the region is a key European trading zone.

“Zeebrugge is one of the fastest growing ports in the range of ports between Le Havre and Hamburg, which together handle more than a billion tonnes of cargo a year.

“Flanders is a prime business region and strategically located in the centre of the most prosperous part of Europe.”

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