The Pan Asian e-Commerce Alliance (PAA) held its 31st Steering Committee meeting in Yi-Lan, Chinese Taipei from 21-24 April 2009.
The Steering Committee welcomed the efforts of the members in recruiting new customers into the usage of PAA Services. The Work Group has reported a 40% growth of the transaction volume of the PAA secure cross border services in the last three months. These new customers come from Korea Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and Philippines.
Similarly, the Steering Committee is also happy to note of PAA’s increasing recognition by regional government groupings. Recently, PAA have been invited to share experiences in several events organized by ASEAN and UNESCAP/UNECE. SWIFT, the global provider of secure financial messaging services, attended the PAA meeting as invited guest. In their presentation, SWIFT looks forward to collaboration opportunities between the banking community and PAA members to strengthen and complete the trade cycle efficiently.
In conjunction with this PAA Steering Committee Meeting, the host organized the 1st PAA Day. This event brought together Government agencies, logistics and forwarding communities of Chinese Taipei and were introduced to the services of PAA, a value proposition to enhance their competitiveness in trade. During his opening remark, Dr. Chen, the chairman of PAA and the CEO of Trade-Van said, “The projects that PAA has successfully implemented are in accordance with the APEC’s mission to reduce trade transaction cost by 5% by 2010.”
PAA’s role in encouraging paperless trade took on an enhanced role in line with Earth Day which was celebrated on April 22 2009. Reflecting this in his speech during the official dinner, Mr. Gary Ho, Vice Chairman of Trade-Van said, “To echo the mission of paperless trade, the theme our colleagues have designed for this meeting is ‘GREEN Trading’. I understand from my colleagues that since years ago, PAA meetings have been conducted in paperless form without any printed meeting materials. To follow the good practice that PAA has established, we also eliminate all printed materials in the 31st meeting as well as the PAA Day.”
The 32nd PAA Meeting will be held in Bali in August 2009.
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