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DBAV board<br />
Chairman<br />
Mark v.d. Assem<br />
Eurocham - <strong>Dutch</strong><br />
Mission<br />
Vice President<br />
Tau van Ngo<br />
<strong>Business</strong> Activities<br />
Treasurer<br />
Peter Kerckhaert<br />
Double <strong>Dutch</strong><br />
Jos Langens<br />
<strong>Business</strong> Acitivities<br />
Marjo Vaessen<br />
Nederlandse Vereniging<br />
Double <strong>Dutch</strong><br />
Secretary<br />
Violette Brand<br />
Website<br />
working<br />
working working<br />
Mark van den Assem<br />
Moving on in 2009<br />
Happy New Year to all!<br />
The year 2009 looks very promising for the DBAV<br />
aswell as for our <strong>Dutch</strong> “Nederlandse vereniging”.<br />
The first traditional event of the year, the new years<br />
borrel, drinks at our new consul generals’ house at<br />
BP Compound was a great success. Many thanks for<br />
that Jos & Heleen!<br />
Our <strong>Dutch</strong> calendar is more than full between now<br />
and summer and I hope to see all of you there.<br />
Please refer to our site: www.dbav.net for the latest<br />
updates of the calendar.<br />
The topic for this Double <strong>Dutch</strong> is the Transport<br />
industry, one of the strongest sectors of the Netherlands. Writing this<br />
foreword in the plane on my way back from Singapore to HCMC I realize:<br />
every day, one way or another, we depend on transport. For transporting<br />
ourselves but also our goods and it is not always as easy as it seems.<br />
One increasingly important aspect of transport is the impact it has on<br />
the environment. Planes, trucks, ships but also motorbikes are important<br />
polluters and reducing this to a minimum is one of the challenges in this<br />
industry. The <strong>Dutch</strong> expertise in the Transport and Distribution sector<br />
can help Vietnam not only with improving this sector from an economic<br />
perspective but can also help in reducing the emission of Co2.<br />
The same principles apply for the overcrowded roads of HCMC. All the<br />
traffic jams do not only have impact on the economy but also make<br />
the city more polluted as it is already. With this, I just want to give an<br />
important argument, other than an economic one, to emphasize why it is<br />
important that <strong>Dutch</strong> companies bring their expertise to Vietnam.<br />
I hope you will enjoy reading about it and hope to see you soon at one of<br />
our events.<br />
Mark<br />
DOUBLE DUTCH 2008│6 5
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