ASEAN meeting seeks to increase postal market share in new situation
Binh Dinh (VNA) –
The 28th ASEAN Postal Business Meeting kicked off on December 7 in
the central province of Binh Dinh, drawing delegates from the ten ASEAN
countries namely Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.
Addressing the event, Chairman
of the Board of Management of Vietnam Post Corporation Nguyen Hai Thanh said that the postal sector is facing a volatile world with competition from both inside and outside
and its market share is significantly reduced. Those changes force the sector
to diversify services and attract companies operating in other fields
to enter the postal space, he said.
Thanh said that the meeting
offers an opportunity for the postal services of ASEAN countries to promote bilateral
cooperation activities in business development, provide technical support and
share experience to increase postal market share, contributing to the
development of a prosperous and united postal community in the region.
Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh
Lam said that it is necessary for the postal industry to develop digital
infrastructure, synchronous and modern data infrastructure. He also
underlined the need to accelerate the digitisation of products and services,
adapting to the competition for companies specialising in digitisation in other
fields to provide further digital services to the e-government, e-commerce
and e-finance.
During the three-day meeting,
participants will discuss the implementation of multilateral cooperation and action
plans adopted at the Congress of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the Asia-Pacific
Postal Union (APPU). Particularly, the 10 ASEAN countries will mull over global postal trends; opportunities and
challenges of the postal sector in the coming time and solutions to improve the
quality of traditional delivery services, express mail services (EMS), stamp
and value-added services.
The meeting will also seek initiatives and
optimal solutions to ensure the harmonious interests of member countries in
jointly cooperating and developing ASEAN postal services.
Earlier, the Vietnam Post Corporation hosted the 7th edition of the meeting in Hanoi in 2000 and the
17th edition in Da Nang in 2010./.