The Transport Development and Strategy Institute in conjunction with the Thai Department of Land Transportation held a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on December 13, aiming to improve the capacity of enterprises transporting goods.

Addressing the event, Nguyen Ngoc Thuyen, deputy head of the Department for International Cooperation under the Ministry of Transport, highly valued the activities to deploy and promote transport cooperation between Vietnam and Thailand.

Thuyen said that the programme is one of the actions to realise the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), adding it is important to ASEAN members, especially Vietnam.

During the workshop, participants exchanged views on the legal framework for cross-border trade, development of transport infrastructure for the AEC, quality of the community’s road logistics, institutional framework and policies for goods transported by road, as well as the application of standard services and information technology for this type of transportation.

The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam introduced an institutional framework and activities for cross-border transport in Vietnam, while the Thai representatives shared experiences in developing cross-border road transport among ASEAN member countries.-VNA