{
  "id": 17059475,
  "title": "From resilience to intelligence how Vietnam can strengthen its role in Asia Europe supply chains",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/from-resilience-to-intelligence-how-vietnam-can-strengthen-its-role",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-29T12:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Vietnam Investment Review",
    "slug": "vietnam-investment-review",
    "url": "https://vir.com.vn/from-resilience-to-intelligence-how-vietnam-can-strengthen-its-role-in-asia-europe-supply-chains-164014.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Logistics Summit 2.0, co-organized by HDS International Group and AHK Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, focused on the theme \"Asia-Europe Trade 2030: Navigating Market Uncertainty with Smarter Supply Chains.\" This year's discussion built upon the 2025 summit, which emphasized resilience, multimodal transport, digitalization, and supply chain diversification. The shift in focus pointed to how businesses can leverage infrastructure, technology, data, and regional networks to enhance their supply chains' resilience and intelligence.\n\nThe logistics landscape in Vietnam is evolving rapidly, with strong economic growth, foreign investment, and deeper integration into international trade driving demand. Northern Vietnam is emerging as an industrial hub, bolstered by electronics manufacturing and connectivity with China, while the southern region remains a critical gateway for international cargo and transshipment.\n\nVietnam's logistics infrastructure is benefiting from significant investments, including airports, highways, and seaports like Long Thanh International Airport and the upcoming Can Gio International Transshipment Port. These developments are expected to enhance connectivity and reshape companies' supply chain organization.\n\nThe collaboration between Pacovis, a food solutions and packaging provider, and HDS International, a logistics consultancy, showcased a best-practice case that demonstrated how logistics efficiency and sustainability can go hand in hand. Pacovis' Purchasing Team, under Andreas Meier, shared their experience with HDS in optimizing logistics costs and processes while supporting a more sustainable supply chain.\n\nThis case highlighted the challenge for businesses of reducing logistics expenditure without sacrificing service quality, broadening the discussion beyond freight rates alone. HDS' methodology involves assessing logistics structures, tariffs, and transport data to identify cost-saving opportunities, then translating these insights into operational changes such as process adjustments, negotiations with existing providers, and competitive tenders. Regular reviews of these logistics arrangements are crucial for realizing savings.\n\nPanel discussions at the summit emphasized the importance of end-to-end visibility, AI and digitalization, diversified sourcing and transport strategies, and closer cooperation between suppliers, logistics providers, and customers in building resilient supply chains. The discussion also highlighted the shift from reacting to disruptions to preparing for them by gaining visibility into suppliers, inventory, lead times, logistics costs, and transport performance.",
  "summary": "Global supply chains have spent several years learning how to withstand disruption The next challenge is different how to anticipate change make better decisions and remain competitive when uncertainty becomes a permanent feature of international trade",
  "key_points": [
    "Northern Vietnam becomes industrial hub focused on electronics manufacturing and China connectivity",
    "Pacovis and HDS International case demonstrates logistics efficiency and sustainability together"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "SGGP English Edition Business",
        "title": "Global experts urged Vietnam to boost transparency to attract long-term capital",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/global-experts-urged-vietnam-to-boost-transparency-to-attract-long",
        "published": "2026-10-29T06:42:48.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}